Chicago’s law department under review after police scandal

A Chicago lawmaker has filed legislation that would give Chicagoans the chance to recall Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

Flint Taylor, a founding member of the People’s Law Office and who, with his law partner and CTJM co-founder Joey Mogul have acted as lawyers for CTJM said: “Reparations, although an historic accomplishment that recognizes that racist violence by the police is not a recent phenomenon, but rather spans many decades, can not heal the City without fundamental systemic changes within the Chicago police department, the Cook County State’s Attorneys’ Office and the Cook County Criminal Justice system”.

U.S. District Judge Edmond Chang ruled Monday that Senior Corporation Counsel Jordan Marsh, a veteran attorney who had worked for the city since 1997, had also lied about his misconduct.

Torreya L. Hamilton, a private lawyer, said Chang also sanctioned the city’s law department for not being forthcoming with evidence in a case in which she was helping represent a man who accused police of false arrest and an illegal search.

Emanuel has come under pressure since the November release of police dashcam video showing an officer shooting a black teenager, Laquan McDonald, 16 times.

The city’s Police Board will be accepting input from Chicagoans on the search for a new police superintendent.

Under the agreement, the federal government will use an independent observer to oversee the Cleveland Police Department and install widespread amendments to how officers use force, according to the Chicago Tribune. According to The Guardian and The Washington Post, almost 1,000 people died at the hands of police in 2015 in the U.S.

Marsh’s resignation was announced later in the day with the city maintaining that it doesn’t “tolerate any action that would call into question the integrity of the lawyers who serve Chicago“.

In the officers’ account of Mr. Pinex’ death, they said they stopped his auto because it matched the description of a vehicle involved in a shooting they had just heard about over their police radio. The department’s statement says it’s continuing to review its procedures.

But records later showed that the officers weren’t listening to a police radio channel at all. The head of a city watchdog that investigates Chicago police shootings pledged greater tr…

Chicago’s embattled mayor, Rahm Emanuel, supported the reparations package in April.

Sharon Fairley said IPRA still won’t be able to divulge all the details about investigations while they are underway. “I think it does”.

The officer, Jason Van Dyke, was charged with murder for the 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald, 17.

“He said the attorney for the city had intentionally hidden evidence, which is very troubling”, Steve Greenberg, the attorney for Pinex’s family, told CNN affiliate WBBM. LeGrier’s father filed a separate wrongful death lawsuit last week.