CHICAGO (AP) — A white Chicago police officer charged with murder in the shooting of a black teenager has been hired to work as a janitor for the city’s police union as he awaits trial, the union president said Thursday. Dean Angelo, president of the Fraternal Order of Police Chicago, says the union hired Jason […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Mayor Rahm Emanuel has rejected three finalists recommended by the Chicago police board for the city’s top police post and selected the force’s current chief of patrol as the new interim superintendent, his office said. The mayor’s office said in a statement late Sunday that Emanuel was appointing Chicago Chief of Patrol […]
CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on Chicago fatal police shootings and other developments with the department (all times local): 11:40 a.m. The lawyer for a Chicago police officer charged with murder in the shooting death of a black teenager says he has asked the court to allow the officer not to attend hearings. Attorney Dan […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Voters ousted the Chicago area’s top prosecutor Tuesday, backing Democratic primary challenger Kim Foxx in a campaign dominated by questions about Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez’s handling of the shooting death of a black teenager at the hands of a white police officer. Foxx, a onetime chief of staff to the […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s former police chief says he was the fall guy for Mayor Rahm Emanuel‘s administration as it faced protests over the shooting of a black teenager by a white officer. Emanuel fired police Superintendent Garry McCarthy on Dec. 1, a week after a judge forced the release of a video showing the […]
The report notes that police officials last month blamed the unavailability of audio in 80 percent of dash cam videos on officer error and “intentional destruction.”
Roland Martin talks to Pastor Corey Brooks of Chicago about the boycott of Mayor Rahm Emmanuel‘s prayer breakfast in light of the suspected corruption around Laquan McDonald‘s death. “We marched on to Michigan Ave and tried to shut that down and we thought to do that with the breakfast. There is no way we’re going […]
CHICAGO (AP) — A top city of Chicago lawyer stepped down after a federal judge accused him of hiding evidence in a fatal police shooting, the latest allegation of wrongdoing amid ongoing scrutiny of how the city deals with such cases. Separately, the city agency that investigates police shootings vowed greater transparency, saying Monday that […]
CHICAGO (AP) — The latest on scrutiny surrounding Chicago police shootings, including one in 2014 in which an officer has been charged with murder for killing a teenager (all times local): 10:30 p.m. The city of Chicago has paid out $5.5 million to 57 people whose claims that they were tortured by police decades ago […]
Jason Van Dyke's lawyer entered a not-guilty plea Tuesday before a Cook County trial judge.
CHICAGO (AP) — The latest developments in the fallout from fatal police shootings in Chicago and a federal civil rights investigation into the city’s police department (all times local): 8:30 a.m. Demonstrators are planning to march through downtown Chicago’s high-end shopping district again to draw attention to the 2014 police killing of a black teenager […]
CHICAGO (AP) — An attorney for a white Chicago police officer charged with murder in the shooting death of a black teenager said he is considering asking for a change of venue because of comments Mayor Rahm Emanuel has made about his client. A court hearing was scheduled for Friday to formally read out the […]
