Chicago Mayor Emanuel Urges “Remain Peaceful” After Video Shows Cop Killing Black Teen

A black teenager is killed by a white cop in Chicago = turmoil, riots, looting, outrage, CNN special coverage.

20 black teenagers are killed every weekend in Chicago by other black teenagers = silence, apathy, no CNN coverage.

Black lives only matter when a white guy is involved.

 

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With the release of this video, we suggest anyone living in and around Chicago ‘brace’ for potential social unrest. The Chicago Police Department has released video footage of the officer-involved shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, who was struck 16 times during a confrontation with officers.

The dashcam video, described by Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez says that this video is “graphic, violent, and chilling,” is expected to provoke a very strong emotional reaction from Chicago’s very large African-American community.

As John Kass, a columnist for the Chicago Tribune, said, the video “could tear Chicago apart,” which is why Mayor Emanuel has already urged Chicagoans, “it is fine to be passionate, but it is essential to remain peaceful.”

The following comes from CNN…

Laquan McDonald was walking down a Chicago street the night of October 20, 2014, carrying a four-inch knife and behaving erratically, authorities say.

 

A police officer told him to drop the knife. He didn’t listen, and the officer fired on him out of fear for his life, according to a police union spokesman.

 

McDonald, 17, died. He was shot 16 times.

 

Now, more than a year later, the public will be able to see what happened.

Warning: this video is graphic (the confrontation begins around 5:00)

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As RT reports, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel urged calm as City Hall got set to release police dash cam footage from the shooting incident, which occurred in October 2014. During the incident, 37-year-old Jason Van Dyke, a white officer, shot and killed McDonald, an African-American teen.

“I understand people will be upset and want to protest when they see this video,” Emanuel told reporters during a Tuesday afternoon press conference.

 

Emanuel cited the McDonald family, saying, “They have asked for calm, and for those who do protest to do so peacefully.”

 

“It is fine to be passionate, but it is essential to remain peaceful,” Emanuel added.

Earlier in the day, Van Dyke became the first on-duty Chicago officer to be charged with first-degree murder. He was ordered held without bail at a hearing. He has been placed on a “no pay” status by the department. As Michael Snyder adds,

Over the past few years, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Freddie Gray have all become household names because of the way that they died, and now it looks like Laquan McDonald’s name will be added to that list. But the situation in Chicago is potentially even more volatile what we witnessed in either Ferguson or Baltimore.

 

More than a million African-Americans live in the Chicago metropolitan area, and the crime rate in the city has already been skyrocketing. In fact, it is being projected that Chicago’s murder rate will increase by 20 percent in 2015. This is a city that is always living on the edge of chaos, and now the case of Laquan McDonald could be the spark that sets Chicago ablaze.

 

After everything that has happened over the past few years, the last thing that we need is another incident that will make racial tensions in this country even worse. Unfortunately, that appears to be exactly what we are going to get.

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Rise Up

Not much to analyze…why is the kid skipping down the middle of the lane with the knife out? It seems he opened the knife along the way? On drugs? No need to shoot him, in any case…

An Anonymous
An Anonymous

The law needs to be changed.
Now murder is defined as the intentional killing of another without justification or excuse.
In accord with our living Constitution and the times, the defintion of murder needs to be changed.
These worrds need to be added to the defintion given above… “Or when the kiiling is of a Black person by a police officer who suspects that the Black person could have committed an offense and that the Black person’s life doesn’t matter.”

Westcoaster
Westcoaster

Even Barney Fife knows you just shoot ’em in the leg. 16 shots? And the cop started firing 6 seconds out of the cruiser? I smell sizzlin’ pig. Stucky will be sooo excited.

javelin
javelin

Shot 16 times?–it seems that Ofc Van Dyke may not have been the only one blasting away.

Persnickety
Persnickety

Question: if investigating apparent cases of police killing black people without legal cause results in more dead black people, is it actually good for anyone?

kokoda
kokoda

“…and the officer fired on him out of fear for his life, according to a police union spokesman.”

The teen was moving away from the police, not charging or attacking in any manner. More lies by the police.

This will go to trial – very possible that the cop will be declared innocent by a jury; maybe the jury won’t be shown the vid.

bb

Nothing to see .Another stupid ass negro gets killed by white cop .God ,I’m getting sick of both.All you see on the local Charlotte news is blacks ,crime and white cops making excuses for black crime or justifying murder.

Thinker

This is the thing I posted about twice now. If you want to see interesting details, go HERE.

Stucky

bb

I’m not the biggest fan of black folk either. However, that “stupid ass negro” was shot 16 fucking times with SECONDS of the copfuk arriving on the scene for what apparently was noting more than jaywalking, or walking in the middle of the street.

Do you honestly believe copfuks should murder people for that?? Or, are you just being your normal assfuk Village Idiot self?

Thinker

Javelin: Van Dyke was the only one who fired. Police who had tracked him for a few blocks and had their tire slashed by him did not fire. The other officers at the scene had to intervene to stop Van Dyke from reloading his weapon so he could fire even more than the first magazine.

The real issue here isn’t the shooting. It’s the fact that Chicago’s corrupt system kept it out of the public so it wouldn’t affect Rahm’s re-election campaign. Van Dyke was given a desk job but would have never been charged — despite numerous additional complaints about him. Out of some 300 cases of cops killing people, Van Dyke has been the ONLY one charged. Most of them are resolved by the City of Chicago paying off the families at $5 million a piece in return for silence. Taxpayers foot the bill, the corrupt system never is questioned and cops keep doing it because there’s no retribution. It’s sickening. It took a FOIA lawsuit from a freelance journalist to get it released.

This has been swept under the rug in Chicago for years. A worse case was that of Rekia Boyd.

https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2015/04/chicago-cop-found-not-guilty-for-killing-woman-after-confusing-phone-for-gun/

Mahtomedi
Mahtomedi

I thought the cops said they needed tazers so they wouldn’t have to use deadly force with firearms. Fuckers. I bet the cop union ends up getting his pay reinstated too.

On the other hand, in my former life as a truck driver, I remember south chi-town only as an unfixable shit hole. If the blacks want to burn it down over this, I wouldn’t stop ’em.

Thinker

Stucky, he wasn’t jaywalking. He’d been breaking into cars at a junkyard to steal radios and slashed tires before walking away from the cops. His autopsy found he was high on PCP. Still didn’t need to die like that — every cop on the scene but one didn’t think he was particularly dangerous.

Wip
Wip

bb

Come on, what kind of world do you want to live in?

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

Has a cop ever been convicted of murder in this country? This one should. I hope they didn’t overcharge him (first degree murder). Don’t know whether the jury would be allowed to convict of a lesser charge. It may not be possible to prove premeditation.

Lysander
Lysander

A 17 yo gets shot 16 times and his mom gets $5,000,000. Whew! I wonder what the price tag is going to be for all the rioting that’s about to happen?

overthecliff

Going to be an interesting trial. On the surface it appears not to be a good shoot. Let’s see the rest of the evidence. In Chicago an all white jury would be almost impossible.

llpoh
llpoh

Remain peaceful? What a fucking contradiction in terms. Remain peaceful my ass. Those fucks are full-time feral and murderous. Peaceful. Emanuel can blow me.

That cop needs to get fried.

Thinker

Latest is that the Police Superintendent (Garry McCarthy, who will remember him from his brutal rule in NYC) has been fired as a result of “a need to restore trust in the Chicago Police Department.”

More importantly, reporters in the room asked Rahm why HE didn’t resign, why Anita Alvarez still has a job, and why there’s been a cover-up at all levels in this case. If you hadn’t heard already, cops visited a nearby Burger King after the shooting, confiscated their surveillance tapes and those have now “gone missing” while the Feds investigate.

Attitude here is that heads need to roll. About time.

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