A guide to developments surrounding Chicago police shooting
Danny Davis (D-IL) and Bobby Rush (D-IL) who represent parts of Chicago, revealed that Mayor Emanuel not only has no thoughts of leaving office but many who know him expressed the belief that they couldn’t imagine him resigning no matter what the circumstances.
“Well, first of all, thanks for telling everyone what I’m going to do with my family”, snapped Emanuel.
Emanuel remains adamant that he won’t resign, saying on Wednesday, “We have a process called the election”. Garry McCarthy – Emanuel has remained largely out of the public eye, providing brief, but measured, remarks to the press only a few times. While the Mayor may not have liked the question, he calmly answered. “I really don’t appreciate that, for one, I really don’t”.
When Allen asked Emanuel about The New York Times editorial board’s call for Emanuel’s resignation, the mayor noted his displeasure with the way the interview was going. “My family trips are my family”. Emanuel revealed the normally secret (in advance) destination of his yearly family vacation, in which Emanuel revealed to Allen during a backstage discussion before the event.
Allen tried to apologize, but Emanuel cut him off. “I don’t know if you know this, but it’s not going to work”.
“This year, if my wife doesn’t kill me now because of what you just did, we will take our kids to Cuba to be exposed to that culture, in the same way they’ve been to India, in the same way that they have been to Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, Chile and Vietnam and Laos”.
“Can you give me your cell number?”
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is denying there was a cover-up in last year’s shooting of a black teenager 16 times by a white police officer.
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan also has called for the Justice Department to look into the police use of deadly force, writing a letter Tuesday asking U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to launch a review because “trust in the Chicago Police Department is broken”.
It is notable, however, that in calling for a federal civil rights investigation of the Chicago Police Department, Clinton is starkly at odds with Emanuel, who has come out against such an inquiry. “Mayor of 3rd largest city!'”