Settling in. Seaweed settling in on the beaches of the caribbean. This is al jazeera america, live from new york city im randall pinkston. Tony harris has the night off. Today, for the first time, we heard from the family of la Quan Mcdonald. He is the African American teenage are killed by a white Police Officer in chicago just over a year ago. The city released dash cam video of his killing just last month. Past or thpastor marvin hunter, the uncle of the victim all shes been doing is crying and crying and crying and crying and it has taken every bit of my pastorrial skills, every bit of the love that i have as a father and an uncle to dry those tears to let her know that god is going to let her smile again. And it probably could have happened a lot sooner than now if she didnt see it on the news every five minutes. Live from chicago, protesters are taking to the streets again. Andy. Randall, you see protesters block a major intersection. Earlier they blocked the citys busiest street
And we begin in chicago where the superintendent of the Police Department has been fired. For the past week, hundreds of people have been on the streets, calling for Gary Mccarthy to go. And today, the mayor answered those calls. Critics of his leadership are angry that it took more than a year for White Police Officers to be charged with murder of a shooting death of a black teenager. The Community Leaders want it gone as well. Diane eastabrook has more on this now. Reporter tony, this really was a bombshell announcement today, because the mayor had been very supportive of mccarthy, but the calls for his removal had just gotten way too intense. Chicago mayor, rob immanuel held a News Conference that he fired Gary Mccarthy because he had become a distraction. I have a loyalty to what he has done, but a bigger loyalty to the city of chicago. Reporter but hours later, he told a local reporter that he had no plans to leave his job. Im not going to give up on the chicago Police Department
[cheers and applause] thank you very much. Very kind. Thank you. Thank you so much. Welcome to the the nightly show. They tell us larry. Spike lee is joining us tonight. [cheers and applause] very cool. Before we begin though im sure you all have heard of this shooting in San Bernardino right now its a horrible situation and still unfolds as were taping and our heart goes out to everybody. This is really unacceptable of the heels of the shoot at planned parenthood its overwhelming. Its happening too much. Let me see if i can put it in perspective theres been 355 Mass Shootings this year and we are only on calendar day 336. This has really got to stop. All right. Thats all i can say. Anyhow, enough talking about the shootings from this year, lets talk about one from last year. This morning the Chicago Police chief has been fired amid outrage over the videotaped killing of a black teenager by a police officer. Finally something its starting to happen in this tragic shooting. Remember the
Allegedly tampered with. Lets do this. [cheers and applause] thank you very much. Very kind. Thank you. Thank you so much. Welcome to the the nightly show. They tell us larry. Spike lee is joining us tonight. [cheers and applause] very cool. Before we begin though im sure you all have heard of this shooting in San Bernardino right now its a horrible situation and still unfolds as were taping and our heart goes out to everybody. This is really unacceptable of the heels of the shoot at planned parenthood its overwhelming. Its happening too much. Let me see if i can put it in perspective theres been 355 Mass Shootings this year and we are only on calendar day 336. This has really got to stop. All right. Thats all i can say. Anyhow, enough talking about the shootings from this year, lets talk about one from last year. This morning the Chicago Police chief has been fired amid outrage over the videotaped killing of a black teenager by a police officer. Finally something its starting to happe
November 25th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Well, good morning on this wednesday. Im reena ninan. And im kendis gibson. Were still having that dancing with the stars hangover. It was a great night. Of course were going to get into all of that excitement shortly. But we do have to get to the breaking news of the day, and its coming out of chicago where protesters rallying into the night after the release of dash cam video showing the Fatal Police Shooting of a black teen. The demonstrators blocked traffic and chanted 16 shots, the number of times 17yearold Laquan Mcdonald was struck as a white Police Officer opened fire. Abcs alex perez is in chicago where that officer has been charged with firstdegree murder. Reporter this newly released dash cam video shows the chilling moments chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke unloads his gun on 17yearold Laquan Mcdonald. We will freeze the video here. It is graphic. It is violent. It is chilling. Reporter van dyke from cop to