cook county state s attorney alvarez released dash-cam video of another fatal shooting that happened over a year ago as well and eight days before mcdonald was fatally shot. that shows officer george hernandez shooting a man named ronald johnson. right now there are protesters on the streets of chicago demonstrating against johnson s death. unlike van dyke, the state s attorney decided against charging hernandez saying johnson resisted arrest and the video shows him wielding what prosecutors say appears to be a gun. the johnson s family said he did not have a gun. she relied on the ipra investigation when 12 to 14 hours ago the head of ipra resigned and/or was fired because of shoddy investigations that ipra does. this is a joke. the blind leading the blind. the two high-profile police shootings and the rash of staff shake-ups the chicago pd and mayor emanuel right now are
in a broad patterns and practices probe, the department of justice is doing is looking at all of the policies, all of the implementation by the department to see if there is any constitutional violation. so they re looking at traffic stops, they re looking at neighborhoods where police presence exist. they re looking at how people are booked. if they re pulling two suspects over for the same crime, how often are they arresting these people based on race, based on age. they re looking for any type of systemic discrimination. what we ve seen very often is they often find this type of discrimination and it leads to broad, swooping reforms in these departments. craig, there are two issues here, right? there is the issue about the system in chicago, police oversight, whether ipra is the kind of policing the police actually works. you know, we have covered on this show pretty credible allegations by former investigators who said, you know, that they were pushed to not find disciplinary cau
police presence exist. they re looking at how people are booked. if they re pulling two suspects over for the same crime, how often are they arresting these people based on race, based on age. they re looking for any type of systemic discrimination. what we ve seen often is they often find this type of discrimination and it leads to broad, swooping reforms in these departments. craig, there are two issues here, right? there is the issue about the system in chicago, police oversight, whether ipra is the kind of policing the police actually works. you know, we have covered on this show pretty credible allegations by former investigators who said, you know, that they were pushed to not find disciplinary cause. but there is also this the continued question of the laquan mcdonald shooting. rahm emanuel got up there today and people said, wait a second. your own chicago police department with a sign off the man the interim superintendent signed a report
when you say the department of justice is coming in. as i say, we welcome it, skept it, and need it. we re in a reflection point. laquan mcdonald situation, yes, at one level, you can say and look at it the way you just described it, is another incident. i as mayor will tell you, it cannot be just another incident. where what we do is take a step. why i think ipra was created was not considered then a half measure. but none of the measures we have taken have measured up to the serio seriousness, the scope, the scale of the challenge as a city. it s my responsibility as mayor to not let laquan mcdonald lead to the creation of another body. it must be a time which we not only put in place better policies, the better training that comes with it, an early interdiction policy, a level of
anita alvarez, the states attorney of cook county relied on investigation from ipra and had the nerve to say that today and that she didn t tell the y mayor shfs releasing ts the video. she had the nerve today to say that she relied on the investigation when 12 to 14 hours ago the head of ipra resigned and/or was fired because of the shotty investigations that they did. that is a a joke. that is an absolute joke. cnn national correspondent ryan young in chicago following all of this. so we heard from them. we heard from the attorney general earlier today. recently we have finally heard from johnson s mother. she spoke out. what did she say? she still doesn t believe this case. in fact, with her and the torn, they have been talking about this for quite some time. they have watched the video over and over. they were able to see the video