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Of course I meant Tamir Rice.

rmrd0000 — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 22:52:42 +0000

Of course I meant Tamir Rice. The Cleveland police hired an officer that a smaller PD found too incompetent to handle a weapon. The local prosecutor has been slow to come to a resolution on the case. In fact the prosecutor has released biased reports vindicating the officers. The Cleveland Mayor has been silent just like Rahm.

??? Really ???

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 22:29:15 +0000

In reply to When you look at how the

??? Really ???

"muted response" about an incident that took place in a different city is equivalent to covering up a video (+ destroying other evidence) for 18 months, lying about the contents during all that time, & spending $5 million of city money to settle & cover up the offense to help get re-elected? [maybe you meant to say Tamir Rice or the Brela-shot suspects instead of Freddie Gray for Cleveland]

If there's specific malpractice in the Brelo & Tamir Rice case, specify the wrong-doing, especially what the mayor should have done.

Fuck Rahm.

Richard Day — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 21:53:19 +0000

In reply to Diane Rehm Panel on Chicago Cop Case

Fuck Rahm.

I'm sorry for the language but we might be looking at the likes of the first Daley.

There were notes at the WP that showed Chicago cops destroying fast food tapes?

This is like that video showing a kid with chocolate all over his face and denying that he stole chocolate?

Only this was not chocolate, it was murder.

Cleveland was Tamir of

NCD — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 21:45:49 +0000

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Cleveland was Tamir of course. I would guess the unfortunate citizen who called that one in, and even told the 911 operator it was probably a toy, would hesitate to ever call the Cleveland cops again.

That anyone can say the Tamir shooting was 'justified' shows how biased the thinking of 'experts' can be, or 'bought off'.

At least there has been movement to accountability with all these videos from recent cases.

When you look at how the

rmrd0000 — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 20:29:22 +0000

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When you look at how the Mayor of Baltimore responded to police abuse allegations prior to the death of Freddie Gray and how the Mayor of Cleveland has been muted in response to the death of Freddie Gray, Rahm may be a typical mayor.

I didn't see that about the

NCD — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 19:09:07 +0000

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I didn't see that about the 'one honest cop in Chicago'. At least they just fired him and didn't try to get him killed like happened to Serpico in NYC.

RAHM is such a lying sleaze it makes one wonder about Obama and why he picked this guy.

The depressing reality may be Rahm is just a typical mayor of a large US city.

There is nothing amiss with

Peter — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 18:56:30 +0000

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There is nothing amiss with the Pigs in Chicago, they are behaving just as they did in 1968 when they earned that descriptive name. . They don't have Black Panthers to kill to sate their bloodlust anymore so lesser victims are used to enforce class rule and project their power and control or actually the power and control of the Business/Political/ Ruling Class they represent and protect.

Bringing in the Feds to whitewash the latest cover-up by Occupation Forces armed, trained and supported by the same Feds, in Chicago through the Democrat Party, is just the same PR diversions seen for nearly 50yrs.

The Ruling Class through their paramilitary's showed how they build 'public confidence' yesterday in Minneapolis where they buldozed the BLM encampment and arrested the protesters.

From NY Times:

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 16:40:34 +0000

In reply to Diane Rehm Panel on Chicago Cop Case

From NY Times:

“A Chicago investigator who determined that several civilian shootings by police officers were unjustified was fired after resisting orders to reverse those findings, according to internal records of his agency obtained by WBEZ.”

The fired investigator was Lorenzo Davis, himself a former police commander who had served in the Chicago Police Department for 23 years and held a law degree. His firing was announced to staff by Scott M. Ando, who had been promoted by Emanuel to chief administrator of the city’s Independent Police Review Authority.

As WBEZ reported:

“Davis’s termination came less than two weeks after top IPRA officials, evaluating Davis’s job performance, accused him of ‘a clear bias against the police’ and called him ‘the only supervisor at IPRA who resists making requested changes as directed by management in order to reflect the correct finding with respect to O.I.S.,’ as officer-involved shootings are known in the agency.”

According to the station:

“Davis says he helped investigate more than a dozen shootings by police at the agency. He says his superiors had no objections when his team recommended exonerating officers. The objections came, he says, after each finding that a shooting was unjustified. He says there were six of those cases.”

Davis told the station, “I did not like the direction the Police Department had taken.” He continued, “It appeared that officers were doing whatever they wanted to do. The discipline was no longer there.”

Something is amiss in the Windy City. Police officers “doing whatever they wanted to do” with no worry about repercussions or accountability? That is the very nature of corruption and abuse of power. The federal government will have no choice but to step in if it cares at all about public confidence in the local officials in America’s third largest city.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/03/opinion/chicanery-in-chicago.html?ref=...