Obama DOJ called upon to investigate Rahm’s hiding of the video to get re-elected? Popcorn…
Via Chicago Tribune:
Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Wednesday he’s opposed to a broader federal civil rights investigation into Chicago Police Department tactics in the wake of the fatal shooting of African-American teen Laquan McDonald by a white Chicago police officer, and acknowledged he made “mistakes” during the investigation into the incident.
During a morning interview with Politico Illinois a day after he announced the firing of police Superintendent Garry McCarthy amid widespread protests about the handling of the McDonald case, Emanuel resisted the call by Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan for a Justice Department probe into the Police Department’s use of deadly force and the adequacy of its review of such cases. Madigan wrote to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Tuesday asking for the probe, saying “trust in the Chicago Police Department is broken.”
Emanuel noted the FBI and U.S. attorney’s office have an ongoing investigation into the McDonald shooting and referred to the task force he created to look at possible police reforms. Emanuel tried to make the case that starting up another federal investigation would be counterproductive.