Chicago Mails $5.5 Million Worth Of Checks To Police Torture Survivors

Also on Monday, city attorney Jordan Marsh resigned after U.S. District Judge Edmond Chang ruled that Marsh had withheld evidence in a trial over a fatal police shooting and then lied about it, the Chicago Tribune reported.

“Attorneys who might be tempted to bury late-surfacing information need to know that, if discovered, any verdict they win will be forfeit and their clients will pay the price”, the judge wrote.

The Chicago Police Department’s chief crime strategist, a close ally of ousted Superintendent Garry McCarthy, has announced his retirement.

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However, Congressman Danny Davis favors the feds including the law department.

Emanuel and Chicago police have come under fire since video was released in November of a white officer fatally shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, who was black, in October 2014.

Corporation Counsel Stephen Patton said Monday night that the city would “double down” on its efforts to properly train lawyers to produce records.

“To the context that we’re in now, it says that the city is willing to hold itself accountable and be responsible in fixing something and having the determination”, he said.

Amid an unraveling scandal that involves the fatal police shooting of a young black man in 2011, grassroots activists in Chicago are calling for Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s resignation.

The head of a city watchdog that investigates Chicago police shootings pledged greater transparency as the agency does its work, while at the time Monday a federal judge blasted the city’s legal arm for trying to hide evidence in one police shooting.

Fairley said she hired a new chief of staff and chief investigator and was recruiting four lawyers to improve investigations.

Eager to put distance between himself and Burge, Emanuel was quick to point out that he was not the mayor when Burge and his midnight crew tortured citizens.

A city law department spokesman said he did not have a way to leave a message for Marsh seeking comment.

On Monday, Governor Bruce Rauner said he would sign a bill allowing the recall of Emanuel. Officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with first-degree murder in the death of the teen a year after the shooting, and not until the video was made public via a judge’s order.

The payments, which were vetted by an arbitrator and a professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Kent School of Law, are part of an ordinance passed by the City Council past year that includes “a formal apology, the construction of a memorial to the victims and the addition of the police torture to the city’s school history curriculum”, the Associated Press reports. A wrongful death lawsuit was filed last week by the father of LeGrier.