Having watched almost three excruciating hours of Mayor Rahm’s testimony before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations about whether he should be confirmed as ambassador to Japan, I have concluded that . . . I deserve a raise! Seriously, folks, they don’t pay enough to sit through such dreck. Last week’s Senate hearing was a […]
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Public outcry kills proposed FOIA law tweak that would’ve hidden police misconduct records
“If Laquan McDonald hadn’t been killed and they’d elected to charge him with a crime, we would still be waiting to see that video.”
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Emanuel blows off another FOIA request for video of a fatal police shooting
The mayor inaugurates a new age of transparency in police investigations by suppressing video of the fatal police shooting of Cedrick Chatman.
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Here is the video of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke shooting Laquan McDonald 16 times
The footage shows a police officer fatally shooting a teen on Chicago’s south side.