Posted on 12/10/2015 4:42:53 PM PST by NRx
Two weeks after a video was released of a Chicago policeman shooting a black teenager 16 times, the mayor of Chicago on Wednesday apologized for it and took some measure of responsibility.
"I'm sorry" for the shooting of Laquan McDonald, which "happened on my watch," Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) told the full Chicago City Council in a rare speech.
For the next 40 minutes, Emanuel delivered a "genuine" and "heartfelt" speech about police brutality and city violence that seemed "real," said critics and supporters alike who heard it, according to the Chicago Tribune.
But the reaction on the street was a very different story. Emanuel cried "crocodile tears," one protester said. The only people who believe it will be his "lap-dog city council," another said, according to the Tribune. They carried signs calling on Emanuel and his leadership team to resign.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
Apparently some people in Chi-Town are not letting this crisis go to waste. and Rahm is on the payback end of it.
Man’s Country will save him.
By the way, Rahm Hates Nazis
“Bravo. Heâs finally getting his comeuppance.”
I must have missed the part of the article where it said that Emanuel is on Death Row.
Rahm Emmanuel is a nasty little thug.
He and his brother Ezekiel “death panels” Emmanuel are pure evil.
It would be nice to see either or both of them taken out of circulation.
“How I wish they would turn on Obama next.”
I think they are, and the more Obola refuses to be an effective CiC, the worse it’s going to get for the RATs. I just wonder when the RAT eletes are going to pay Obola a visit and give him the news that they will allow for impeachment.
That's how he got elected: Get out the vote in the cemetery precinct.
“Is Marion Barry still alive? I guarantee he would win if he ran for Mayor of that place.”
Barry died at United Medical Center in Washington, D.C., on November 23, 2014 from cardiac arrest, aged 78. Following three days of memorial observances, he was buried December 6 at Washington’s Congressional Cemetery.
Just in case you are in the area and need to relieve yourself, here’s where he was “laid to rest.”
Hey Rahm,
How’s it feel to be portrayed as the chief politician in charge of a murderous, racist police force? And as the chief politician who simply ignores the wholesale slaughter of Black citizens, while claiming that the best way to protect the victims of violence by making sure they have no way to protect themselves.
Never let a good crisis go to waste, right Rahm?
Mark
But now he'll owe everyone a lot of favors and he'll have to deliver.
From CNN, 2005...
In 1990, the FBI busted Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry for crack cocaine. Today, the 68-year-old self-proclaimed "mayor for life" is back in politics, serving on the D.C. City Council. ...
In January 1990 Barry's political reign came to an abrupt halt when he was caught on video in an FBI sting operation smoking crack cocaine with a woman at the Vista Hotel. The incident -- played over and over on cable television -- produced what is perhaps the most memorable quote of Barry's long career: "The bitch set me up."
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/02/CNN25.tan.barry/index.html
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An Example Waiting to Be Made
February 17, 2009
Should Marion Barry go to jail for failing -- yet again -- to file his tax returns?
His last stint in the clink didn't seem to have much of an impact on the former mayor. As recently as 2005, he tested positive for marijuana and cocaine use. And in 2002, U.S. Park Police said they found crack cocaine and pot in Barry's Jaguar.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/16/AR2009021601376.html
I’m loving it. A liberal Democrat leading a Democrat city full of crime and corruption, who relies on dishing out gov’t perks to minorities in exchange for votes, and now unable to control the “little people” he rules over. Pass the popcorn.
To the people demanding the apology, it is an admission of guilt.
It is so sweet seeing Dead Fish get dead-fished.
He used to work for His Arrogance .... Princess Rahm even lies about his lies .... let’s see if he can not let this crisis go to waste!
Sodomites never resign.
He is a friend of Dorkbama.
He knows too much.
Nothing will happen.
Wanna bet?
What is a “Laquan?”
Don’t worry, the tiny little tough guy “Dancing Don” will put on Ballet slippers and Pirouette himself out of trouble.
Calling him The Godfather is an insult to Godfathers everywhere.
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