Posted on 12/03/2015 3:14:58 AM PST by csvset
CHICAGO - After Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel fired Garry McCarthy from his post as Chicago police chief amid the Laquan McDonald shooting fallout, protesters danced in the streets.
However, CBS Chicago reports that while the protesters had gotten their wish with McCarthy's ouster, they said they wanted more, and have set their sights on Mayor Emanuel and Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez for their handling of the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald by Police Officer Jason Van Dyke.
Van Dyke has been charged with murder for McDonald's death, and video of the shooting released last week shows him shooting McDonald 16 times on Oct. 20, 2014, as McDonald was walking away from police.
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Protesters have expressed outrage that the video was released more than a year after the incident, and that what it shows contradicts the statements made by some Chicago police and officials, namely that McDonald had attacked police.
The anger towards Emanuel was also on display at the premiere of Spike Lee's "Chi-Raq" on Tuesday night.
Lee's satire is based on the ancient Greek play "Lysistrata" by Aristophanes. This modern adaptation is about the murder of a child hit by a stray bullet in Chicago's South Side, and the group of women that organize a unique way of dealing with the ongoing violence; they hold back sex.
Chicago actor John Cusack, who appears in the film, said the shootings and killings in Chicago each year are "unacceptable," and cited political motives.
He said the police officer involved in shooting the 17-year-old wasn't charged or the superintendent fired until the city's election had passed. Emanuel won a second term earlier this year. The shooting took place in 2014.
"It's very tragic that information was suppressed for an election cycle," Cusack said.
One of the organizers of the protests that followed McCarthy's fired echoed Cusack's concern.
Aislinn Sol told CBS Chicago: "We've been wanting McCarthy fired. We've been wanting Rahm to be fired. We've been wanting Anita Alvarez to be fired."
In an interview with Politico released Tuesday, Emanuel addressed and dismissed concerns about a cover-up. He repeated the claim Chicago officials have often made, namely that the controversial Laquan McDonald video was a primary piece of evidence in an ongoing and serious investigation, and that releasing it any earlier would have damaged official efforts.
"If you're worried about a cover up - the last person you should be worried about is me," Emanuel said. "All that information is with the FBI, when they conclude it, all of those things will be answered. If there's an action required after that, to hold people accountable, we will."
as much as I would hate to give BLM any kind of win, I’d like them get rid of Rahm never let a crisis go to waste emmanuel I would say thats a good crisis
Kwame Kilpatrick to appeal to U.S. Supreme Court
Kilpatrick's lawyer Harold Gurewitz told the Free Press this morning that he will take Kilpatrick's case to the Supreme Court following the latest legal blow from the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, which has rejected Kilpatrick's request to have the entire appeals bench rehear his case.
A three-judge panel in August ruled against Kilpatrick, upholding his conviction on 24 corruption crimes, including bribery, extortion and fraud.
They’ll never by happy. I love it with libs eat themselves.
Is there a Daley waiting in the wings?
Rahm clearly ordered the delay to protect his re-election.
Fire him AND put him in jail.
In a tribal society the members will not select a leader from a perceived other tribe, no matter how incompetent or brutal the prospects are for any leader they select from their own tribe. In the case of the inner city Negro and non-Negro welfare population they perceive themselves as the subjects of a ruler who must be from the right tribe and who will not make them work for a living and who will give them their sustenance. If the ruler is particularly cruel then they may overthrow him to replace him with another who still has absolute right to treat them as he will but it is hoped that he will treat them better.
If they manage to bring down Emmanuel and replace him with a Negro mayor and somehow get an all Negro city government and police force we will hear no more protest about police killing street people and the city government could run a Pol Pot operation without any complaint. The ruler would be truly of the tribe.
It would result in a log of deaths from what would be euphemized as Domestic Violence. If the women want to try that they should all get guns first.
Anita Alvarez is incompetent, and is nothing but a political hack. If she were not a latina she would be collecting aluminum cans for a living.
Every Chicago cop should quit and go elsewhere. Then it won’t be dancing that is going on in the streets.
The Emanuel/Chicago situation is a microcosm of the USA at this juncture. The world is only now starting to fall down around Obama and he is getting more petulant with each passing day. Pray for our country.
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