anita alvarez, the states attorney of cook county relied on investigation from ipra and had the nerve to say that today and that she didn t tell the y mayor shfs releasing ts the video. she had the nerve today to say that she relied on the investigation when 12 to 14 hours ago the head of ipra resigned and/or was fired because of the shotty investigations that they did. that is a a joke. that is an absolute joke. cnn national correspondent ryan young in chicago following all of this. so we heard from them. we heard from the attorney general earlier today. recently we have finally heard from johnson s mother. she spoke out. what did she say? she still doesn t believe this case. in fact, with her and the torn, they have been talking about this for quite some time. they have watched the video over and over. they were able to see the video
i asked him if he feared or had any concerns that the states attorneys office was going to indict him. he said no. that deposition was taken almost a month ago. how in the world was he going to know that he was not going to be indicted? how in the world does e he know that his position is safe and anita alvarez is going to do nothing unless he was told so by anita afl resident or someone from her office. it s amazing to me nobody contacted him, nobody attempted to contact him, he was confident he was not going to get indicted and he fully gave a six-hour deposition a about this case. it s amazing that the plaintiffs lawyers are the only ones able to talk to him when the full power of the states attorneys office and police are view authority have done nothing. she spent a a great deal of time trying to build a case against ronald johnson and talked about witness a, who said he saw a
before everyone else was able to see the vud owe. what was was in his hand, they didn t believe it was a gun. they called into question whether the, tended clip fits into the back of the gun. i talked to the attorney this afternoon and he believes this has been a massive cover up. they are not letting this goe. . they plan to push forward with this. you heard strong words today. the mother just talked a half hour ago. i m very upset that she didn t conviction this officer who murdered my son. i m not going to stop until i get what i want for him and that s justice. because if there d have been anybody in her family that got kuld like that, there also would have been charged with murder. and the case would have been looked into way before a year. it s been 13 months for this
time talking about witness a. i want to talk about their investigation before we get into witness a. anita alvarez got in front of the tv cameras at her press conference today and said that she relied on the independent investigation. but then she referred to it as the police partner. it is amazing to me that anita alvarez relied on investigation and had the nerve to say that today and that she didn t tell the mayor that she was releasing the video, but she had the nerve to say that she relied on the investigation when 12 to 14 hours ago the head of the organization was resigned or was fired because of the shotty investigations that they do. the head of the organization resigned and the states attorney
says i relied on the investigation. that is a joke. that is an absolute joke. it is in and it is a front to the people of cook county in chicago. i received a call friday night at 5:00 from a member of the states attorney office, a supervisor, who asked me if if i had had any evidence to show that officer hernandez planted a weapon. he asked me, the plaintiffs attorney on this case, and e he knew me, if i had had evidence to give to the states attorney s office. had called me after the mayor said the video is going to be released if i could provide them with information. anita alvarez has at her disposal a fleet of investigators. she has subpoena power. she has grand jury power to