No charges for Chicago officer in other 2014 shooting

Hernandez will not have criminal charges filed against him because, as Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez explained during the press conference, officers reported that Johnson had a gun and was running toward a police vehicle containing two officers in the park.

“One of the things I’ve charged this task force … is to look at the fact that you have three entities and if people are not telling the truth but believe there is a permissive culture that enables that rather than hold them accountable, we have a problem because people won’t trust it”, the mayor said.

“We understand that the same systems that fail community members also fail conscientious officers by creating mistrust between law enforcement and the citizens they are sworn to serve and protect”, Lynch told reporters on Monday.

Here are key details about the Independent Police Review Authority.

The Chicago investigation, which is separate from an existing federal investigation into last year’s shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, will review how the department disciplines officers and handles misconduct accusations. Dick Durbin, and Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton were among many who have asked for a civil rights investigation of the Chicago Police Department.

The University of Chicago said last month that an analysis by its civil rights and police accountability clinic found of 56,000 complaints against Chicago police but only a fraction led to disciplinary action. In a statement Sunday, Emanuel spokesman Adam Collins echoed the mayor’s comment about welcoming a federal investigation.

“I’m looking at this, and it appears to be an object in there”, she said. Veteran civil rights activist, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, said he hopes it would focus not only on the police department, but on Emanuel’s office and the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, which he and others have criticized for taking so long to bring charges against Van Dyke.

The historical relationship between the Chicago police and the community.

A video the city released Monday shows officers dragging Coleman from a police lockup after he was repeatedly shocked with a stun gun at a South Side police station. Johnson is not on screen when he was struck by two bullets.

A screen grab of dash cam video from the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald, in which an officer fired on the teenager 16 times in October 2014.

Johnson’s family and its attorney rejected Alvarez’s decision, calling it a “joke” and dismissing authorities’ assertions that Johnson was armed. “If the city of Chicago doesn’t agree to do what the Justice Department thinks they ought to do, then they can just go in front of a federal court that can enforce the changes that the Justice Department wants to implement”.

But despite the changes Emanuel has implemented, protesters’ calls for him to resign – something he said he won’t do – have grown louder. And we also know that Rahm Emanuel fought every step of the way to keep the video of what happened that night out of public view.

After the explosive video was released, Van Dyke was charged with murder, Chicago police Supt. As he falls to the pavement, the shooting continues.

The dashcam footage was released at a news conference and Assistant U.S. Attorney Lynn McCarthy attempted to show exactly how the shooting occurred from her perspective.

Ald. Carrie Austin, Emanuel’s City Council Budget Committee chairwoman, said the mayor needs to use his speech to make apologies. A judge sided with the journalist and ordered that the video be made public.

The Justice Department investigation was to look into patterns of racial disparity in the use of force.

Recent analyses of police reports following the McDonald killing – added on to official department statements to the media following the shooting – provide yet one more case study of the code of silence in action.

On Monday, the US Department of Justice announced it is launching an investigation into the Chicago Police Department.