records requests. that s where you really get some of the more detailed minutia of these cases. i want to point out we did reach out to the chicago police for comment, we are still waiting to hear back. as someone who lives in chicago, what do you think needs to be the first priority here? is it policing the police or trying to reduce gun violence in a city that had more than 400 homicides last year? well, surely both. lorenzo davis, who is a former cpd commander and worked for ipra before he was fired a few months back, he s kind of been a whistleblower in all of this. as someone who has worked for both the police department and as someone who s looked into officer-involved shootings and fatal shootings, he s called for, you know, more police accountability and changes within ipra, specifically that there s a lot of people who work at ipra who have strong ties to law enforcement, including the head administrator who is a former dea agent, and obviously
how would that be answered? the city s position, as i understand it, has been this, that there is a process, there are a series of processes, first, the ipra, the independent police review authority and all police officer-involved shootings go through them so they had it, we didn t want to tamper with that, we are not going to get involved in that. the state s attorney then came in, their own investigation, there was a justice investigation, and the mayor s office basically says, look, we don t want to be we don t want to be tampering in any of the independent investigations. this had nothing to do with us, essentially. as you noted a moment ago, pat camden made very specific comments about how this was an act of self-defense. so there was direct involvement immediately at the time which he is now distancing himself from. what we need to avoid and what has been the problem in chicago is this culture of protecting officers when, in act far the
a statement saying the videotape is two-glengsal, does not things like depth, the perspective from his client. and clearly, that s going to be part of the case that he makes on behalf of his client as his client faces murder charges in cook county. number two, i should say we have no evidence and are not suggesting there was a cover-up independently. we have no evidence to suggest that s the case. there are questions about how this was handled internally. i should say the city of chicago and the state s attorneys office in cook county say there were multiple parallel investigations from federal, ipra, independent civilian imp oversight that everyone was doing that in parallel and that is the reason that there was nos forthcoming movement on this, that they did not want to tamper that investigation. i want to make very clear that is the case being made by officials in chicago on this night in the wake of the very, very disconcerting video released of the shooting death of 17-year-old la
about chicago police. 70 of them fatal. 7-0. and ipra, the independent police review authority found all of those were justified except maybe two or three. and only one officer was punished. so that s the kind of question that i would have asked rahm emanuel tonight at his press conference because of some technicality, i wasn t allowed inside. and it was funny. someone asked the my question for me and he kind of dodged it. my question so rom would have been, what are you going to do, mayor, to change this culture of violence perpetrated by police that resulted in 300 shootings over five years. independent journalist brandon smith whose lawsuit forced the release of this police shooting video today in chicago. thank you for joining us. i really appreciate it. thanks, rachel.
first of all, the attorney for the officer in question put out a statement saying the videotape is two-dimensional, does not show things like depth, the perspective from his client. and clearly, that s going to be part of the case that he makes on behalf of his client as his client faces murder charges in cook county. number two, i should say we have no evidence and are not suggesting there was a cover-up independently. we have no evidence to suggest that s the case. there are questions about how this was handled internally. i should say the city of chicago and the state s attorneys office in cook county say there were multiple parallel investigations from federal, ipra, independent civilian oversight that everyone was doing that in parallel and that is the reason that there was nos forthcoming movement on this, that they did not want to tamper that investigation. i want to make very clear that is the case being made by officials in chicago on this night in the wake of the very, very d