Chicago police officer expected to make plea in teen shooting death

“Our police officers have a very hard and risky job”.

A 2009 evaluation of conducted electrical weapons – the generic name for Tasers – by the Police Executive Research Forum, compared law enforcement departments that used the devices and departments that did not, and found that the former had reduced officer and suspect injuries.

Over the weekend two black Chicago residents – a 19-year-old and a 55-year-old woman – were shot by police offers.

It was unclear if the mayor was at his home, where protesters had gathered outside earlier Tuesday. Four hundred sixty-eight homicides were reported in 2015, making it the most violent year since 2012, when 500 people were killed, the Chicago Tribune reported.

Friends and relatives of LeGrier wrapped blue and white balloons around a basketball goal during a candlelight vigil on Tuesday across the street from the high school he graduated from in 2014. Neither the superintendent nor the mayor said how the department would pay for 700 more Tasers, which cost about $1,000 each, or the additional training.

Van Dyke was suspended from the police force without pay following the charges. They acknowledge Jones was accidentally hit by gunfire. It was not clear whether Emanuel had yet returned from Cuba as of Tuesday evening. It was unclear if the mayor or his family were home.

Critics have accused Emanuel of keeping the video under wraps until after he won a second term in April.

A spokesman for Emanuel, Adam Collins, said on Tuesday that the office is aware of an “altercation” involving a mayoral staffer.

Police say no one was arrested.

Another man, 38, was hurt in the brawl, according to police. “This is about Laquan McDonald and we should not do interviews about open investigations”. As of December 21, Los Angeles police officers had shot 37 people in 2015, 22 fatally.

“(Quintonio) was a good kid”, said Bauer, who had run with LeGrier and other students in the Chicago Marathon to raise money for clean water for children in Africa.

Officer Jason Van Dyke, who was charged last month with murder in the death Laquan McDonald, appeared in court Tuesday morning.

The emails also included messages in which officials asked how they should respond to demands for the footage.

Van Dyke shot 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times in October 2014.

The release of the video set off citywide demonstrations, forced the resignation of Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy and has led to an ongoing wide-ranging civil rights investigation of the entire Chicago Police Department by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Since the release of the video, protesters have been calling for change in the Chicago PD.

Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez said an outside review will help determine if criminal charges should be filed against the officer.

Officer Van Dyke, who is free on bond, stood silently before Judge Vincent Gaughan as his lawyer, Dan Herbert, entered the not-guilty plea.

The video showed McDonald veering away from officers before he was repeatedly shot, including while he was facedown on the pavement. Police have said McDonald had a knife.

Interestingly enough, the Chicago Police Department has also been known for issuing little or no punishment to its own after a 2007 overhaul of its discipline system that was portrayed as creating a tough, autonomous authority. The Chicago native is hopeful that by keeping attention on police misconduct, officers will think twice before shooting in 2016.

“I need someone to prove me wrong by bringing justice in the Jason Van Dyke case”. The retention vote is likely to happen before Van Dyke’s trial – first-degree murder cases rarely go to trial in Cook County within a year.