No charges filed against Chicago officer after shooting

Lynch’s announcement comes exactly one week after Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan sent a letter to the Department of Justice last week asking it to investigate Chicago police. Amid accusations of a cover-up extending from the police officers involved in the shooting to the State’s Attorney and Emanuel himself, the Department of Justice announced yesterday that it would open a federal investigation into the police department’s practices.

“I think Attorney General Loretta Lynch makes a really interesting point that has been borne out by data released recently by the Chicago Police Department”, he says.

On the heels of the Laquan McDonald verdict which was reached at the end of November, another verdict was reached on Monday in a fatal Chicago shooting by a police officer.

“We will let the Department of Justice address what action they will or will not choose to take”, Collins said in the statement, “but as was made clear last week, we welcome the engagement of the Department of Justice as we work to restore trust in our police department and improve our system of police accountability”. Coleman clashed violently with police officers at the hospital where he was taken for treatment, trying to seize an officer’s Taser, it said.

Also, on November 24, on a judge’s order, city officials released video from a dashboard camera from 2014 that showed Officer Jason Van Dyke firing 16 shots at Laquan McDonald, who was 17 and black.

Alvarez and Assistant State’s Attorney Lynn McCarthy spent more than 30 minutes detailing evidence before showing the dashcam video. It was opened after a preliminary review, she said.

The investigation will be conducted by the Special Litigation Section of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. That morning, Van Dyke was charged with murder.

“Every one of those officers were doing the right thing beforehand then lie and lie in official police reports”, Futterman said.

Prosecutors told reporters Monday that the officer, George Hernandez, had reason to believe Johnson was carrying a gun and posed a threat to him and other officers in the area when he shot the 25-year-old black man as he fled from police in October 2014. But the calls for the mayor to resign something he said he won’t do have grown louder from protesters, including the voices of more than 200 people during a march Sunday.

The City Council approved the payment to the McDonald family on the same day it signed off on another settlement that drew far more attention – the creation of a $5.5 million reparations fund for dozens of torture victims connected to former Chicago police Cmdr.

Video of Ronald Johnson III killing shows suspect had gun; United States launches civil rights probe into Chicago policing.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has already fired Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy and also Scott Ando, head of the Police Review Authority (the body which investigates police shooting incidents).

Caption + Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel listens to a question after announcing the appointment of Sharon Fairley as leader of the Independent Police Review Authority, Monday, Dec. 7, 2015, during a news conference in Chicago. A private attorney for Johnson’s family has said that the video showed Johnson did not have a gun. They have filed a lawsuit against the city, claiming that Johnson was not armed when killed.

The family of a man who died after being in Chicago police custody say the factors leading to Philip Coleman’s 2012 death were exacerbated by officers’ actions and weren’t accidental.

The legislation, introduced by Chicago Democrat Rep. Arthur Turner, would require police agencies that want to deny release of a video under the Freedom of Information Act to prove their case in court. “What we are looking is to see whether or not the police department as a systemic matter has engaged in constitutional violations of policing”, the nation’s top law enforcement official said.