Illinois Governor Expresses Disappointment In Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel

The officers said they stopped Pinex because his Oldsmobile Aurora fit the description of a auto that other officers attempted to stop a few hours earlier after a shooting, an incident the officers said they heard about on police radio.

Chang ordered a new trial in reversing a federal jury’s decision in favor of Officers Raoul Mosqueda and Gildardo Sierra.

A federal judge criticized Marsh in a scathing opinion Monday.

“To the context that we’re in now, it says that the city is willing to hold itself accountable and be responsible in fixing something and having the determination”, he said. “He also has my support to make sure that this never happens again”, the mayor said.

One day after a senior city attorney resigned in disgrace after getting caught concealing evidence in a police shooting case, Emanuel said he has Patton’s back, just as he once had former Police Supt.

“He said the attorney for the city had intentionally hidden evidence, which is very troubling”, Steve Greenberg, the attorney for Pinex’s family, told CNN affiliate WBBM.

In Chicago, prosecutors took more than a year to bring murder charges against police officer Jason Van Dyke in the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald, who was shown in the video walking away from police while holding a knife.

Chicago’s mayor Rahm Emanuel has been under fire after the recent release of a video showing a white officer fatally shooting a Black teenager.

Pressed on whether the Law Department should be included in the sweeping federal civil rights investigation of the Chicago Police Department, Emanuel said, “No. They’re working where they are”. Chang also accused the Law Department of poorly training and overseeing city attorneys, creating an environment that hampered production of records essential to prosecuting cases of police misconduct. “The children of the city of Chicago are not a pawn in the political game in Springfield to get an agenda done that people don’t agree with”, Emanuel said.

While the gesture appears to be a step in the right direction in a bid to quell further issues, the Jones family has launched a lawsuit against the city and observers state that the legal backlash will continue on in the coming months as open investigations into police brutality and use of force are ongoing.

She said she would increase IPRA’s contact with Chicagoans over the changes needed in the police department.

“In three years, we settled up legally, reparations and a verbal apology what hasn’t been done in three decades”, Emanuel tell the newspaper. “I think that position is now untenable”.