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“I don’t believe any mistakes were made,” Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez said regarding the investigation of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald’s police-related shooting death in Chicago. Alvarez has been in office since 2008. She made the comment last week during a debate with Donna More and Kim Foxx. More and…
Chicago’s Independent Police Review Authority has concluded that the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Cedrick LaMont Chatman by a police officer in January 2013 was justified. But the original investigator, Lorenzo Davis, disagrees with this assessment and insists the use of deadly force was unnecessary. Chatman was shot and killed almost…
Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy was fired Tuesday amid growing calls for his ouster after a video released last week after more than a year showed the brutal killing of a Black teen by one of his officers. The video, which the city of Chicago resisted releasing for more than…
More than 2,000 protesters tookto the streets in one of Chicago’s busiest shopping districts during Black Friday following the release of a graphic video last week showing the year-old murder of a Black teenager by a white police officer who shot him 16 times. The video, which the city of…
A Chicago man has filed a lawsuit this month against the city’s police department for charges of false arrest, excessive force and violation of constitutional rights. The suit charges the department as a whole as well as six officers. 51-year-old George Roberts was pulled over “for a minor traffic violation”…
Lorenzo Davis, a former Chicago police chief who went on to be an investigator for the Independent Police Review Authority (IPRA), has been fired after concluding multiple civilian shootings by police were unjustified. According to Davis, in the cases in which officers involved in shootings were exonerated, he never received…
By Michael Nam Chicago Police Department wanted to withhold the photograph featuring former police officers, Jerome Finnigan and Timothy McDermott, appearing like trophy hunters over a Black man lying on the floor with antlers tied to his head, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The disturbing photo may have been taken…
By Michael Nam Baltimore’s current dire situation can find its roots in a history of crushing poverty, a segregated populace, and long-running police brutality. The Black population of the city has suffered considerably through booms and busts of the U.S. economy, with little in the way of relief. A city…
By Michael Nam Accounts of police killing unarmed Black people are still making headlines since the death of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. The latest stories involve Rekia Boyd, shot and killed in Chicago, and Freddie Gray, a man who died from a mysterious injury allegedly received while in Baltimore…
By Michael Nam In a familiar refrain, a police officer who fired the 16 shots on October 14, 2014 that claimed the life of a 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, a Black teen, claimed he was in fear for his life, but the dash-cam video evidence that may shed light on that…
