Victims Of Chicago Police Torture Receive Reparations Decades After Abuse

The mayor has launched efforts to restore public confidence in police and his leadership.

“Once the decision was made”, the mayor added, “the lawyer and the city parted ways”.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports (http://bit.ly/1ONxJc8 ) 22 police officers have been disciplined in a one-month period since squad-car dashboard videos at the scene of the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald didn’t have audio.

Services have been held for a Chicago woman who police say was accidentally hit by gunfire intended for a 19-year-old man during a domestic disturbance.

Marsh submitted his resignation on Monday, the city’s Law Department said. According to The Guardian and The Washington Post, almost 1,000 people died at the hands of police in 2015 in the U.S.

But a lawyer for the Pinex family, Steve Greenberg, said Marsh’s actions reflect on the city law department as a whole.

Men identified as victims of police torture under the command of retired Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge stand to be recognized by the Chicago City Council in May. The video prompted protests and led to a wide-ranging civil rights investigation of the entire police department by the U.S. Department of Justice. Officers Raoul Mosqueda and Gildardo Sierra testified during the trial that they pulled Pinex over, who was driving an Oldsmobile, because the auto matched the description of a vehicle that was wanted in connection to another shooting.

Chicago’s law department is examining more than three dozen open cases that were being handled by a former top city attorney who resigned this week after a federal judge accused him of hiding evidence in a fatal police shooting, a department spokesman said Wednesday.

The day after Gov. Bruce Rauner promised to sign a mayoral recall bill-rendering himself the least loyal vacation buddy Mayor Rahm Emanuel ever had-Rahm struck back, accusing Rauner of using CPS students as “pawns” in the state budget negotiations. During Tuesday’s press conference, the mayor didn’t say what steps he plans to take regarding Marsh and also didn’t say whether he will order a full review of Marsh’s work, but he did note that his legal adviser, Stephen Patton “is going through the pieces right now in that area”. “I don’t think they cared that (Pinex) got killed, they didn’t care what the truth was and they didn’t care they cheated (with the evidence)”.

In McDonald’s case, IPRA and city officials cited the ongoing investigation in not making the video public for more than a year.

Torreya L. Hamilton, a private lawyer, said Chang also sanctioned the city’s law department for not being forthcoming with evidence in a case in which she was helping represent a man who accused police of false arrest and an illegal search.

Attorneys for Jones’ family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city Monday.

The recall law would apply only to future lawmakers, not those now in office.