Mayor, interim police chief to announce changes

” ‘Today, we’re asking you, right in front your house, for Rahm Emanuel to step down, ‘ said activist Ja’Mal Green, who until recently participated in the mayor’s anti-violence campaigns”.

McDonald was not running towards police as reports initially claimed, in fact, he was walking away from officers when Officer Jason Van Dyke fired his gun 16 times.

But considering that after the shooting, there was just a ton of protests from all over the state to the point that even the United States Department of Justice had to intervene, it could be said that the reason for the change in arsenal was also due to other factors like the protests and the intervention. Herbert cites the fact that the video evidence has been widely viewed and that the rhetoric from Mayor Emanuel about Van Dyke and a perceived “code of silence” in the police department has been overheated.

“Though the generally less-lethal Tasers have been available in the department for years, not every officer has been trained to use them or carries them”, the Tribune reports. And a recent Illinois Observer poll has found that more than half of Chicago’s voters think Emanuel should resign.

Emanuel says the changes are aimed at “injecting some humanity” in how police operate.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s deputy chief of staff was allegedly assaulted while attending a vigil for two people fatally shot by Chicago police.

Emanuel’s office says he plans to lay out new policies Wednesday regarding police training and use of force.

In an emotional address to Chicago’s City Council on December 9, the mayor apologized for McDonald’s death.

The opressure has been growing since the November release of police dashcam video of the shooting.

Mr. Hunter cited those deaths Tuesday as evidence of a broader problem in the Police Department, and Mr. Herbert said increased news media attention to police shootings “probably will never help my client”. Nationwide, police killed almost 1,000 people this year, a quarter of whom were mentally ill or experiencing an emotional crisis, according to an exhaustive Post study.

Emanuel, who is on vacation in Cuba, issued a statement a day after the shooting, noting that changes must be made in how police respond to mental-health situations. Police have said LeGrier was combative and that Jones was shot by accident.

Also killed was 55-year-old Bettie Jones, a resident in the same building. LeGrier’s mother, Janet Cooksey, told ABC that her son was shot seven times, including once in the buttocks.

Officer Jason Van Dyke’s arraignment comes as the U.S. city is reeling from another fatal police shooting. Van Dyke and several other police officers responded to calls of a man slashing tires on Pulaski Road and 41st Street.

Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi didn’t immediately return a message from The Associated Press seeking further details.