proif provides an opportunity for some hope. not a panacea but hope if we can work together toward reform. something i haven t seen in my lifetime in chicago. wesley, you have been reporting on police issues for well over the last two years. my question is what s the significance of a d.o.j. patterns and practices probe? what does it mean for chicago? well, it s it s much broader than a civil rights probe. when d.o.j. comes in and says, we re going to investigate the laquan mcdonald shooting or when they went into ferguson to investigate the michael brown shooting, right, that s a specific probe that looks at the circumstances of one shooting, one interaction and it s a very high bar, a high standard to prove that the officer in ferguson may have committed a civil rights violation. and we didn t see that. in a broad patterns and practices probe, the department of justice is looking at all of the policies, all of the implementation by the department to see if there is any constitu
commission. some heads roll. but nobody up to this point has had the political courage to address the underlying issues that have allowed a minority of police officers to abuse the most vulnerable among us with impunity. the feds coming in now really provides an opportunity for some hope. not a panacea but hope if we can work together toward reform. something i haven t seen in my lifetime in chicago. wesley, you have been reporting on police issues for well over the last two years. my question is what s the significance of a d.o.j. patterns and practices probe? what does it mean for chicago? well, it s it s much broader than a civil rights probe. when d.o.j. comes in and says, we re going to investigate the laquan mcdonald shooting or when they went into ferguson to investigate the michael brown shooting, right, that s a specific probe that looks at the circumstances of one shooting, one interaction and it s a very high bar, a high standard to prove that the officer in ferguson m
had the political courage to address the underlying issues that have allowed a minority of police officers to abuse the most vulnerable among us with impunity. the fed coming in now really provides an opportunity for some hope. not a panacea but hope if we can work together toward real reform. something i haven t seen in my lifetime in chicago. wesley, you have been reporting on police issues for well over the last two years. my question is what s the significance of a d.o.j. patterns and practices probe? what s that look like? what does it mean for chicago? well, it s it s much broader than a civil rights probe. for example, when d.o.j. comes in and says, we re going to investigate the laquan mcdonald shooting or when an example being when they went in to ferguson to investigate the michael brown shooting, right, that s a specific probe that looks at the circumstances of one shooting, one interaction and it s a very high bar, a high standard to prove that the officer in ferguson
eye on the entire situation here. those are the live pictures that you are looking at now. and i want to tell you that the police in ferguson and the attorney general eric holder flatout called it ambush and scene of fear and pandemonium and we will talk to witnesses, but first, the shooting as it all happened. [ screams ] [ crying ] [ gunshots ] [ bleep ]. acknowledgment nine months ago would have kept that from happen inging. oh, [ bleep ], [ bleep ]. okay. there was just gunfire, and nouw the cops have guns drawn.