Chicago lawyer accused of hiding shooting evidence resigns

Sharon Fairley, the new acting chief administrator at IPRA, which investigates Chicago police-involved shootings, is set to announce an overhaul of the authority’s “senior leadership team” on Monday. “You know in retrospect I think I should have, but I wanted to talk to the sergeant and to see whether it was even relevant”.

The judge on Monday tossed a jury’s finding in April that the police shooting was justified, ordered a new trial and instructed the city to pay attorney’s fees to the plaintiffs. “After hiding the information, despite there being numerous times when the circumstances dictated he say something about it, Marsh said nothing, and even made misleading statements to the court when the issue arose”.

But Chang also had criticism for the department as a whole in his ruling, including about its record keeping.

In McDonald’s case, IPRA and city officials cited the ongoing investigation in not making the video public for more than a year. But in practice, it rarely ruled against officers.

Fairley’s appointments include a new chief of staff, Annette Moore, associate director of admissions at the University of Chicago Law School, and Jay Westensee, the new chief investigator, who now serves as a chief investigator with the city’s Office of Inspector General.

Fifty-five-year-old Bettie Jones was killed when a police officer opened fire on a 19-year-old man after they responded to a domestic disturbance call.

Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel are longtime friends and business partners, so one might expect Rauner to offer some words of encouragement as his buddy deals with the fallout from the fatal police shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. A wrongful death lawsuit was filed last week by the father of LeGrier.