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Perspective from his client. and clearly, that s going to be part of the case that he makes on behalf of his client as his client faces murder charges in cook county. number two, i should say we have no evidence and are not suggesting there was a cover-up independently. we have no evidence to suggest that s the case. there are questions about how this was handled internally. i should say the city of chicago and the state s attorneys office in cook county say there were multiple parallel investigations from federal, ipra, independent civilian oversight that everyone was doing that in parallel and that is the reason that there was nos forthcoming movement on this, that they did not want to tamper that investigation. i want to make very clear that is the case being made by officials in chicago on this night in the wake of the very, very disconcerting video released of the shooting death of 17-year-old la cowan mcdonald. up next, three men in police custody in relation to a shooting last n ....
and people are very angry. said yesterday he hadn t seen the video. the city s position on this they are saying the standard procedure is we turn this over to ipra and we after that point have nothing to do with it. i should note it was the chicago city corporation council that was arguing in court not to release the video. it wasn t entirely out of their control. we have this conversation the live look there in downtown chicago at the folks who have gathered there for a second night on the streets. we should note here that last night largely peaceful. just five arrests. i want to be i spent years reporting and living in chicago. i know a lot of the folks in chicago. chicago is a place with robust tradition of organizers and activists and people have been organizing around the chicago police department for a long time. people have known about the video for a long time. before the video came out the ....
Independent police review authority for refusing to justify officer-involved shootings. the ipra says the allegations are, quote, baseless and without merit, but, that said, 23 years on the force, lorenzo, thank you for joining me. you say you have known about this video. you were not shocked by it. and i want you to explain why. i have known about the existence of the video. i had not seen it. i am not shocked by it. there have been other videos of police officers using what i would call excessive force against subjects, one in particular, the shooting of mr. flint farm er is on video. it is just as bad as the video of lequan mcdonald. ....
Case and he release the [ inaudible ] let me speak to the two to three things just in general, okay? there is always work to improve in a sense because trust is a two way street. and people having a sense that nobody s being protected just because of their title or their position, and nobody s being prosecuted because they don t have a title and position. for a long time, and this was in fact former attorney general came into look at what chicago was doing because we have two oversight boards. ipra. that are different than any other city. we also have the internal review that goes out here. do we need to make constantly ask hard questions? if a n. fact two years ago, we ....
Recommendations of his subordinates and told them to change their recommendations. now, tonight we have someone else who worked there and left frustrated with what he saw there. he works for a similar review board in oakland now. executive director of the citizen police review board in oakland, california. former investigator at ipra in chicago. mr. finnell, what was your experience of ipra like? well, initially and first let me start out by saying thank you for having me, chris. but initially my experience was a pretty good experience at ipra. i received a team of investigators. and we worked our cases. i began to have frustrations when particularly with some of our officer-involved shootings, the evidence didn t support the officer s statements. and then when the investigators tried to present those cases to close those cases and present ....