The Cop Shooting So Horrific It Cost $5 Million to Hide





So we also spoke with eyewitnesses who were there. And one of the women who was a witness to the shooting who had - was shocked and who repeatedly screamed, stop shooting, as the officer emptied his gun into the young boy's body, refused to leave. And she reports that she was taken to the station and placed in a locked room and intimidated and told that she didn't see what she saw. We then learned, as we interviewed people from Burger King that was located kitty-corner to where this happened - and the Burger King cameras had seven different video files. The officer went into the Burger King, and he erased all seven of those files. The irony is, though, that the Burger King surveillance video was running while the officer erased them. And so there's a videotape of the officer erasing the video.

WERTHEIMER: Craig Futterman is the founder of the Civil Rights and Police Accountability Project at the University of Chicago. Craig Futterman, thank you.

http://www.npr.org/2015/11/25/45734...hicago-police-officer-shooting-black-teenager
 
Garry McCarthy out as Chicago Police Department superintendent

Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy is out after coming under widespread criticism for his handling of a high-profile shooting that eventually led to a white officer being charged with first-degree murder in the death of a black teenager shot 16 times in a Southwest Side street last year, sources told the Tribune on Tuesday.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel plans to make the announcement at an 11 a.m. news conference where he'll talk about a task force he's formed to make recommendations on police accountability, one of the sources said.

At 7:40 a.m. Tuesday, McCarthy was on the radio talking about the Laquan McDonald shooting and praising the mayor's task force plan.

"How am I? I'm a little busy and a little bit stressed out, but staying the course," McCarthy said when asked how he was doing by WGN-AM 720's Steve Cochran.

For four-and-a half years, Emanuel had stood by McCarthy through various rocky patches, including a major spike in homicides and a number of high-profile murders and shootings of young children caught in the gang crossfire of Chicago's most violent neighborhoods. Then came the intense criticism of how the two handled the police shooting of 17-year-old McDonald. After Cook County prosecutors charged Van Dyke with first-degree murder a week ago, federal prosecutors disclosed that their probe of the fatal shooting, which was announced in April, remains "active and ongoing."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...rintendent-garry-mccarthy-20151201-story.html
 
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