another police-involved shooting over the weekend left two people dead. there are breaking developments today. mayor rahm emanuel s office announcing major police reforms including mandatory 30-day desk duty for cops involved in shootings and also a review of police crisis policies. but it s no consolation for families of the victims. a 55-year-old mother of five who police say they shot accidentally and a 19-year-old college student who police say was combative and threatening his father. the independent police review authority is now investigating. want to get right to msnbc s sarah dallof who is covering this story out of chicago. tell us more about the reviews here and especially when you pull back from the mayor s response and the reviews going on, the more underlying issue of tension there between the community and police. reporter: yeah. these are all very important topics here. the mayor s office responded very quickly to these deaths over the weekend, saying that he s alread
right. these reforms, these steps that are happening as we examine these cases aren t happening fast enough and like you said, too little, too late. there are a lot of questions out there from friends, relatives, neighbors. why wasn t non-lethal force used in this case. why wasn t a taser used. why weren t any other de-escalation techniques used. and were these deaths of a 19-year-old college student and 55-year-old mother, were these deaths preventible. thank you very much, sarah. appreciate it. this weekend, the washington post published a report showing the police fatally shot nearly 1,000 people this year in the united states. some take-aways from their investigation which the post says was researched over the past 12 months, that mental illness played a role in the quarter of the shootings. one in ten of the victims was unarmed. indictments of police officers tripled this year over the average of the previous nine years. want to bring in wesley lowery, covering law enforce