Lawsuit filed in Chicago police shooting

Police said an officer shot LeGrier, who was carrying a metal bat and acting in a “combative” manner, early Saturday morning while responding to a call about a domestic disturbance.

LeGrier, a 19-year-old college student who was home for the holidays, was shot and killed yesterday at the front door of his home by police responding to a domestic dispute call made by his father. The report did not reveal the exact number of gunshots the teen sustained, although family said they had been told he had been shot seven times, according to the New York Times.

Chicago Police say 55-year-old Bettie Jones was shot accidentally.

It also comes amid a federal civil rights investigation into the Chicago Police Department that was launched after last month’s release of police dashcam video showing white officer Jason Van Dyke shooting black 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times in 2014.

Members of Jones’ family have spoken out in grief and outrage about her being struck down as well, but they have not yet filed a lawsuit.

“Rudy Giuliani would be on the scene and get hourly briefings”, said Sharpton, but called Emanuel’s lack of reaction “the height of arrogance”.

A statement released by the department said the officers would be place on administrative duties for 30 days, the AP reported.

Why the city as spent more than $500 million settling police cases since 2004.

“Deadly force should have been used as a last resort and not a first resort”, retired police sergeant Cheryl Dorsey told CNN, asking why Tasers had not been used to subdue LeGrier. But family members and activists say the incident just speaks to how poorly equipped cops are at dealing with people who are suffering from mental problems-and, of course, itchy police trigger fingers. Police have said Jones’s death was an accident. Earlier this month, the feds finally added Chicago to the various cities whose police forces’ the Department of Justice is probing for excesses.

“We are under siege here in Chicago”, Ira Acree, pastor of the Greater St. John Bible Church, said at the vigil.

“She should not have had to open her door and be shot down by a Chicago police officer”, Cole said during a Sunday press conference, ABC reports. Also killed was 55-year-old Bettie Jones, who lived in the ground-floor apartment.

The police department’s Office of News Affairs confirmed that a 50-year-old man was at the vigil when “he was approached by an unknown person who began to make verbal threats which escalated to a physical altercation”. Emanuel directed the leaders of the independent Police Review Authority to meet immediately with the Chicago Police Department to, “determine the deficiencies in the current training, and determine what steps can be taken immediately to address them”.

“Where was the Taser?” she said.

The complaint says Antonio LeGrier wasn’t given a choice on whether to leave his home with police, and that while there was no probable cause to hold him, he wasn’t allowed to leave the police station until he gave statements to detectives.

Protests over McDonald’s death are tied to the larger Black Lives Matter movement, which has pushed the frequency of police killings of black Americans and governmental indifference to those deaths to the forefront of American politics, starting with the killing of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014.