In a letter to U.S. Attorney Zachary Fardon and Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has asked both Cook County and federal officials to investigate the racial slurs heard over Chicago Police Department radio frequencies. A male voice was first heard on March 13th saying, “typical f—ing …
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During Democratic primaries on Tuesday, voters sent a strong message to the prosecutors responsible in the cases of Laquan McDonald and Tamir Rice. Both the Cook County State’s Attorney in Illinois, Anita Alvarez and Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty in Ohio were defeated by opponents in the democratic party. The downfall …
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I got registered & voted against Alvarez today because @AssataDaughters are fighting for their future. #ByeAnita pic.twitter.com/GsTx5APszY — Rachael Perrotta (@plussone) March 15, 2016 On Monday grassroots activists in Chicago bandaged the ailing city in paper banners to remind voters in Tuesday’s primary election to dump their top prosecutor, Anita …
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A study analyzing police union’s statements immediately following a police-involved shooting shows that the Chicago police union has provided a false narrative in nearly half of its official statements since 2012. As first reported by the Chicago Reader, 15 of the 35 statements given by Fraternal Order of Police Lodge …
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File this one under the shameful and morally reprehensible. As though gunning down Quintonio LeGrier and Bettie Jones wasn’t enough, after 911 operators failed to respond three times to LeGrier’s calls for help, the Chicago officer responsible is now suing LeGrier’s family for ’emotional distress.’ Say that again? A cop responds …
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On Monday the Independent Police Review Authority (IPRA) in Chicago released audio recordings of the three 911 calls Quintonio LeGrier made to the authorities on the morning he was shot six times by a police officer whose gunfire also accidentally killed his neighbor. LeGrier told the 911 dispatcher that his life …
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Via Chicago Sun Times: After less than a full day of deliberation, jurors on Tuesday found a former City Hall insider guilty of rigging Chicago’s red-light camera contracts in return for lavish gifts and cash bribes. Federal prosecutors spent two weeks arguing John Bills helped Redflex Traffic Systems Inc. cheat …
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All but “five or six” of the 57 individuals who allege they were tortured under the Jon Burge reign of terror were given around $100,000 in reparations this Monday. Burge (in above photo) was the police commander brought to justice in 2011 for running his “midnight crew,” which routinely tortured …
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“City of Chicago lawyers, after meeting with Mayor Rahm Emanuel, demanded the Laquan McDonald family bury the video showing the killing of their son by a police officer.” Full Story – Daily Beast
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Officers fired eight times into a Chicago home Saturday after responding to a domestic violence call. A 55-year old woman was accidentally killed along with a mentally disturbed college student who had been armed with an aluminum bat. Mayor Rahm Emanuel has called for immediate police reform after this disturbing incident. More …
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Homan Square detention facility is reportedly like something out of “Homeland.” Read More Here:
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The Chicago footage keeps rolling in. This time it’s from a case that fell on deaf ears back in 2012. Phillip Coleman, arrested and detained in a jail cell, wound up dead at the hands of police. How did this happen…newly released video tells the story. Read more:
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