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Rahm Emanuel Is Performing a New Emotion: Sadness
Jordan Sargent · 12/09/15 12:45PM2012 Video Shows Chicago Cops Repeatedly Tasering Man Who Later Died
Jordan Sargent · 12/08/15 11:32AMRahm Emanuel Is Flipping on the Chicago Police
Jordan Sargent · 12/07/15 06:35PMPoliticians are generally beholden to police. One need look no further than what the NYPD did to Bill De Blasio nearly a year ago, after he admitted in public that he had told his son to be wary around cops, to see to the lengths police departments are willing to go to exert authority over a city’s elected leadership.
New Video Shows Chicago Police Officer Shoot Suspect in the Back
Jordan Sargent · 12/07/15 01:26PMU.S. Justice Department Expected To Launch Investigation of Chicago Police After Laquan McDonald's Death
Melissa Cronin · 12/06/15 04:25PMRahm Emanuel Reportedly Threatened Chicago's Black Leaders Over Protests
Jordan Sargent · 12/02/15 05:45PMRahm Emanuel has said the right things in public about the Laquan McDonald travesty, even if behind closed doors he’s been a force for something less than total justice. The reported details of a series of meetings Emanuel had with a number of black civic leaders from Chicago’s South Side prior to the release of the dashcam footage won’t do much to shore up his image among Chicagoans.
Rahm Emanuel Fires Top Chicago Cop In Wake of Laquan McDonald Scandal
Jordan Sargent · 12/01/15 12:42PMPolice Were at Burger King with Missing Security Footage on the Night of Laquan McDonald's Death
Brendan O'Connor · 11/30/15 10:20PMPolice Officer Charged With Murder of 17-Year-Old Laquan McDonald Walks out of Jail on $1.5 Million Bond
Melissa Cronin · 11/30/15 06:42PMLast Night in Chicago
Kate Knibbs · 11/25/15 05:23PMHours after the release of a dash cam video showing Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke killing 17-year-old Laquan McDonald with 16 bullets from a semi-automatic gun, hours after prosecutors charged Van Dyke with first degree murder (over a year after the shooting, during which Van Dyke continued to work for the Chicago Police Department), hundreds of people gathered near the University of Illinois-Chicago campus and started to march.
Here's One Weird Trick to Make a Chicago Cop Feel Profoundly Uncomfortable
Ashley Feinberg · 11/25/15 11:36AMJason Van Dyke's Charging Documents Reveal Just How Massively Full of Shit the Fraternal Order of Police Can Be
Chris Thompson · 11/24/15 11:05PMHere Is The Footage of Laquan McDonald's Shooting Death Chicago Police Didn't Want You to See
Brendan O'Connor · 11/24/15 06:53PMChicago Police Officer Charged With Murder After Shooting a Black Teenager Sixteen Times
Gabrielle Bluestone · 11/24/15 12:15PMReports: Fire Rages on 50th Floor of John Hancock Skyscraper in Chicago [Updated]
Melissa Cronin · 11/21/15 04:01PMJudge Rules City Must Release Dashcam Video of Chicago Teen Being Fatally Shot by Police
Brendan O'Connor · 11/19/15 09:47PMA video allegedly depicting a black teenager being shot and killed by a Chicago police officer last year will be released, The Guardian reports, after a Cook County judge ruled Thursday that it was not exempt from requests made under the state’s Freedom of Information Act, as city officials had previously claimed.