Cover-ups In Police Murder Requires Resignation of Chicago Mayor Emanuel

At times during Wednesday’s panel, Emanuel appeared increasingly incensed at questions about his response to the shooting and his sudden decision to fire Chicago’s police superintendent.

“If I watched it, reporters like you would say ‘if you get to see, how come the public doesn’t get to see it?'” Emanuel told Politico reporter Natasha Korecki during an interview at a “Politico Playbook” event. So far, the only one is Van Dyke, who has been charged with first-degree murder.

Johnetta Elzie, an activist affiliated with Campaign Zero, an organization aiming to end police violence, tweeted that Emanuel is part of the problem.

Also calling for their resignation, in an opinion column in The New York Times, was Bernard Harcourt, a former law and political science professor at the University of Chicago who is now a professor at Columbia University.

“We need someone from within the police department, someone with the ability to engage the public as well as be a hard-nosed leader within the department, someone who can help restore the trust between the community and the police”, said Alderman Roderick Sawyer, who is head of the city council’s black caucus. Until McCarthy’s replacement is found, Chicago First Deputy John Escalante will serve as interim superintendent. A judge ordered it released last week, triggering protests that led to Emanuel’s firing of police Superintendent Garry McCarthy on Tuesday.

In an op-ed piece for Time magazine on Monday, Crump said that McCarthy’s failure to strip Van Dyke of his badge was particularly egregious.

How allegations of corruption against the Chicago Police Department have played out over the years.

Seeking to calm growing criticism about his administration’s handling of police misconduct cases, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has appointed a new “police accountability task force”.

“I think an additional layer prior to the completion of this (federal investigation of the McDonald shooting), in my view, would be misguided”, Emanuel said.

“The police chief, the mayor, and the state’s attorney had the tape and they covered it up”, Jackson said. “It was the police who maintained a code of silence despite at least seven other officers who witnessed the shooting at close range”.

The mayor said McCarthy had become “a distraction”. Emanuel said Tuesday that the federal probe includes whether local authorities investigated the shooting properly.

Also Tuesday, relatives of another person fatally shot past year by Chicago police stepped up their pleas to have the squad auto video made public.

Whether delaying the video release is the result of a deliberate cover up. Prosecutors say that McDonald had just slashed the tire of a squad auto, and had PCP in his system at the time, as reported by the Inquisitr.

Emanuel conceded Wednesday he made “mistakes” throughout the course of the investigation, suggesting that he could have released the recording of McDonald’s death sooner.