The editors of the New York times have weighed in on Chicago’s police scandal which became national news when the video of Laquan McDonald being executed by a Chicago policeman came to light after having been mysteriously withheld until the elections were safely over:
This spring, a task force appointed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel found that the department was plagued by systemic racism and still operated with contempt for the lives of black citizens. The task force made many recommendations and proposed scrapping the current police oversight system in favor of a new investigative agency that would be under civilian control.
Mr. Emanuel created the task force shortly after the city was forced to release a police video of a white police officer, Jason Van Dyke, firing away at a black teenager named Laquan McDonald on a busy Chicago street. The city added to the African-American community’s already deep sense of grievance by withholding the video from the public for 13 months — while the police circulated a false account of the episode. Only after the court ordered the video released did the state’s attorney, Anita Alvarez, charge Officer Van Dyke with murder.
We are, of course, expected to believe that Sergeant Schultz Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel knew nothing about the murder, the lies, the cover-up, or the racism.
The fun thing is that the response will be for even more lax police work, which can only lead to more dead black people.
He also just announced that he had fixed the pension problem. And by golly, I believe him.