17-year-old laqwan mcdonald. protesters filled the streets, asking if there s been a coverup, a federal grand jury is reportedly looking into whether there was any obstruction of justice after laqwan s death, and now the justice department will review whether the department has a pattern of violating protocol, that pattern goes back decades. just this year the city approved over $5 million in reparations to victims of police torture from the 70s and 80s. joining me now from chicago is state representative lesean ford. thanks for being here first of all. well, thank you reverend and
they don t sound cool to me. guess not. you got to stick up for yourself, like with the name your price tool. people tell us their budget, not the other way around. aren t you lactose intolerant? this isn t lactose. it s milk. the problem is sometimes referred to as the thin blue line. the problem is other times referred to as the code of silence. it is a tendency in some cases to cover up the bad actions of a colleague or colleagues. chicago mayor rahm emmanuel talking about his city s police department. and facing growing outrange,
of the issues, reverend sharpton, your voice is always needed. thank you. anc ahead, spotlight on chicago policing. the interview with a lawmaker behind the bill to recall the mayor. and in 2016 politics, trump s rivals search for a strategy.
much i appreciate that, and i came to washington not because i wanted to be secretary of education, that was not my lifelong ambition. i simply wanted to be part of president obama s team, and i can t tell you how proud i ve been to have the chance to serve with him, and to learn from him, his values, his commitment to helping those who need the most help. every hard decision, reverend, every hard decision having to do with education he simply said what s the right thing to do for children, and he would handle the politics. what s next for arne duncan? it s bittersweet, really sad to leave this work and to leave washington but as you may know my family moved back to chicago this summer and it s been very hard on all of us, my wife, my kids and i, trying to do this commuting thing, and so i m going home to chicago at the end of the year. i m going to desperately miss our work here and our team here but it s the right thing for my family and i ll figure out what to do next as we go i
for worse, fear is a motivating factor in politics, in how we act and how we vote, and what donald trump has done is tapped into that fear and things that we would normally consider extreme are being accepted as reasonable because there is so much fear in the mix, so the idea of excluding persons of islamic descent, normally that would seem outrageous. now there s fear, folks are saying hey maybe that makes sense. think back to the japanese internment or the chinese exclusion act. those things happened because there was an environment of fear, whether economic fear with the chinese exclusion act or foreign policy fear with japanese internments. i think trump all of you one minute. stay with us. there s a lot more ahead. we ll be back. coming up, justice scalia s controversial comments about black students, and what they mean for affirmative action. plus, outrage in chicago, and a mayor under fire, as