Cities’ policies on police shooting videos inconsistent

Rauner said the video of Officer Jason Van Dyke shooting McDonald 16 times is “shocking [and] terrifying”, and he said he cried after he saw it last week. “He has become an issue, rather than dealing with the issue, and a distraction”, Emanuel said after firing McCarthy, who headed America’s second largest law enforcement agency after New York City. He also said the city could not withhold the video because state and federal agencies were investigating an incident – not the city police department itself. Police initially said the officer involved in the shooting, who has since been charged with first-degree murder, was defending himself and that McDonald lunged at him with a knife. The police dashcam video, however, appears to show that McDonald was moving away from Van Dyke when the officer opened fired.

Black aldermen called for McCarthy’s firing in October, but the mayor did not act until Tuesday – after a week of national outrage over the November 24th court-ordered release of dash cam video of the 17-year-old being shot 16 times. Police arrived on the scene after the auto that Johnson was riding in had a window shot out by gunfire.

In interviews with the CBS Chicago stations prior to his resignation, McCarthy said the city’s slow release of the McDonald shooting video had to do with departmental investigation policy. “The mayor, the Independent Police Review Authority, they’re all guilty”.

The mayor’s office declined to comment on the contents of the video. However, Johnson’s family and attorney Michael Oppenheimer say he wasn’t armed and claim a gun was planted.

– Cincinnati: Media organizations sued Hamilton County, Ohio, prosecutor Joseph Deters after he refused to release body-camera video from the fatal shooting of a black motorist in a traffic stop by a white University of Cincinnati officer in July. “It’s not going to make me happy”. All over America, there are police officers honorably doing their duty, demonstrating how to protect the public without resorting to unnecessary force. “The loss of so many young African Americans taken too soon should reaffirm our commitment to press forward for progress”, she said in the posted statement.

“I heard your call for no justice, no peace”, said Mosby, whose announcements drew celebrations among protesters around the city. The judge rejected the city’s contention, made before Van Dyke was charged, that releasing the video could lead to an unfair trial “in the court of public opinion”.

The mayor: Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s former chief of staff, has come under widespread criticism over allegations that he has not pushed harder for reforms to Chicago’s police department. A support rally will be held at 5:00 p.m., according to the call from the Alliance, to “hold the federal government accountable for its complicity in police crimes and torture”.

Holmes says that her son was a father of four daughters and a son and she wants to clear her son’s name.

“Was there an overt effort with the state’s attorney’s involvement, the mayor’s involvement and the police to suppress this videotape”, asked Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin, who helped organize Tuesday’s meeting.