Five police shootings in Chicago in two months, but no video released on any of them

[mucifer]

After facing withering criticism for withholding video of the fatal police shooting of Laquan McDonald five years ago, the city of Chicago created what it billed as one of the first written policies that guaranteed release of footage of officers using force.

For the first time, it set up a deadline — 60 days — for making video and other evidence available to the public. Even critics hailed it as an unprecedented shift toward transparency.

Now some are questioning if the policy is strong enough to restore public trust.

From Chicago’s top cop to the mother of a man fatally shot by police, there is concern that it takes too long to get crucial images and information to the public. There have been at least five people shot by on-duty Chicago cops since July, two of them fatally, yet no video has been released from any of them in a summer when in other cities it has brought closer scrutiny of police actions.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-chicago-police-shootings-video-20200905-nv7eprfadvhavho6gdn4clcja4-story.html

As the article states it took a year to get the video of LaQuan McDonald's murder to the public. Mayor Rahm refused to release it.

[Nevilledog]

1. That's just unacceptable!

[crickets]

2. The new policy doesn't seem to be working very well. nt

[rgbecker]

3. In the recent past, 1000 people are killed by the Police each year.

Not just shot, Killed. That's about 3 a day. 180 will die before election day. Since George Floyd's death what changes have been made? Is there any question in your mind why the protests in Portland have continued for 100 days? Is it because with all the talk, there have no changes made that have stopped the relentless killing by the state paid agents. Can you believe after all the protests about Black Lives Matter and murder of Floyd that we had to watch as another policeman shoots an unarmed man getting into his car seven times at point blank range?

Of course we now learn the police camera talk was just that, talk. None in Kenosha and they won't show them in Chicago. Out of control or in the control of racists and haters? Either way, it should end and soon.

Oh, and are we hearing anything about the killing of the Antifa guy from the Portland incident, killed by Oregon police in Washington State? Where are the videos of that? Do they turn them off because its dark? Nothing to see here...move along.


WTF?

[rgbecker]

4. Mapping the police violence in America.

[link:https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/|