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Despite Emanuel issuing an apology, several prominent Chicago pastors have rejected Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s gesture of forgiveness and are demanding that his administration release yet another dash cam recording in which a white police officer fatally shot seventeen-year-old...

Chinese police shoved diplomats, journalists and protestors away from a Beijing courthouse where the trial of prominent human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang began on Monday.

Watroba and her partner, Lauren Freeman, repeatedly emphasized in their closing arguments that DNA evidence “buries” Evans, 53, whose encounter with Rickey Williams occurred on January 30, 2013. He also said that Evans held a taser to his groin as he threatened to...

Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez is our guest this week on Newsviews.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake urged citizens on Monday to respect the jury’s decision and go about business as usual.

Consular officers are already allowed to search applicants’ social media accounts if they see it as “valuable or necessary” but it is not a mandatory policy, NBC reports Kirby as saying.

“Nothing”, Nekesha Robertson’s cousin Monica Reddix told AP.

In Chicago, that commonality is not only evident through media reports and statistics, but it is the true cause of why thousands of Chicagoans filled the streets in the name of Mr. McDonald with various forms of protest following the release of a video showing the fatal October...

Yet, even with its function entirely transformed, the truck still bore the insignia of its past life, a decal that clearly read: “Mark-1 Plumbing”.

“The protesters refuse to accept Mayor Emanuel’s attempts to placate the public in the aftermath of disclosures about the Mayor’s Office’s suppression of public release of information of the police murdering Laquan McDonald”.

While Emanuel apologized for balking at releasing the McDonald shooting footage, a federal judge nearby declined to make public surveillance videos of another police shooting, this one involving 17-year-old Cedrick Chatman in 2013. The protesters want him to resign, but...

Hunter told reporters Friday the 17-year-old was not a gang member, adding that McDonald “was a big boy, but he was a teddy bear”. This afternoon, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Cook County Commissioner Rickard Boykin and other community and faith leaders held a “march...

A high-ranking Chicago police officer accused of shoving his gun down a suspect’s throat while on duty in 2013 was found not guilty Monday of official misconduct and aggravated battery by a Cook County judge.

Just as it had in McDonald’s shooting, the city had argued in court filings since the shooting 14 months ago that releasing the video would inflame the public and jeopardize the officer’s right to a fair trial if he was charged, court records show. Some group members...

CHICAGO- Hundreds of pages of police documents released late Friday evening from the investigation of the police officer shooting death of Laquan McDonald shows that cops at the scene offered a starkly different picture of what led to fellow officer Jason Van Dyke shooting...