Chicago After Laquan Mc. Donald - The New York Times“We are abolitionist in our politics,” Page May, a 2. Assata’s Daughters, told me. We are fighting for a world in which the police are obsolete.” Violent crime is again soaring in Chicago, with 1. Yet the very communities most in need of public safety have come to see the criminal- justice system as another deadly threat. A scathing report issued on April 1. C. P. D.’s own data gives validity to the widely held belief the police have no regard for the sanctity of life when it comes to people of color,” the task force found.“Chicago had it coming,” May said, describing the blowup set off by the Laquan Mc. ![]() Donald case. “It’s more a question of why it took so long.”With Chicago in this state of upheaval and reckoning, it feels as if much has already changed, but also very little. That same week in March, Veronica Morris- Moore, 2. 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She seemed to be grieving the city’s larger problems, even as she celebrated the organizing that helped oust from office Anita Alvarez, the Cook County state’s attorney. Alvarez didn’t charge Van Dyke until a judge, nearly 4. Mc. Donald video public. Alvarez had led in polls three weeks earlier, but demonstrators shut down her public talks, rallied at her fund- raisers and started a social- media campaign — #Bye. Anita — that laid out how she had failed in her duties as a prosecutor. Alvarez lost by 3. But Morris- Moore had little faith in whoever was state’s attorney — or in any public official. The system as it exists is never going to give justice to young people like Laquan Mc. Donald,” she said. Ultimately, we are out to destroy that system.” She and the five other activists standing beside her began to recite a litany of those killed in Chicago by the police, pausing after each name to say that the cop had gone unpunished. Chicago had more fatal shootings by the police than any other American city from 2. Better Government Association. Yet members of the Chicago Police Department have faced hardly any punishment. Of the 4. 09 shootings by police officers investigated since 2. ![]() Independent Police Review Authority (IPRA), which is charged with looking into serious claims of misconduct, only two of the shootings were found to be unjustified. The people in power- holding capacities are being put on notice,” Timothy Bradford, wearing a T- shirt with Rekia Boyd’s face printed on it, announced from the courthouse steps. When you don’t make sure our communities are safe by ending mass incarceration and dealing with these killer cops — when you don’t do this, we are watching you, and we will hold you accountable.”That Mc. Donald’s death shocked the city into action was a result in part of the video itself. You can count in the footage, recorded from a patrol car’s dashboard camera, exactly how long it takes Van Dyke to jump out of another cruiser, gun already fully extended, and open fire: six seconds. The first shots send the 1. Then Van Dyke continues shooting into Mc. New York Magazine The Revenge of Roger’s Angels How Fox News women took down the most powerful, and predatory, man in media. · A number of women are accusing Donald Trump of sexual harassment, spanning from groping on planes to unwanted advances in the Trump Tower. He's strongly. Online homework and grading tools for instructors and students that reinforce student learning through practice and instant feedback. Since 2004, a number of women have publicly leveled claims of sexual assault against the comedian. Donald’s inert body. Thousands of pages of police reports and emails about the case slowly came to light, document after damning document, detailing the extent and everyday nature of the cover- up. It was like a biopsy of an entire institution revealing a consistent ugly thing,” said Jamie Kalven, who runs the Invisible Institute, a local independent news organization. Last year, The Guardian broke the story of a police facility on Chicago’s West Side being operated like “a C. I. A. black site.” Officers at the Homan Square station were detaining and interrogating thousands of suspects, sometimes for days without filing charges or providing access to lawyers. Although the Police Department has denied the allegations, internal department records and testimony from those detained suggest that the city may soon be forced to confront yet more cases of abuse. Even as cops have been absolved of blame in almost all instances, the city has made a practice of settling claims before trial, and Chicago has paid more than $6. In its report, the mayor’s police- accountability task force stated that “every stage of investigations and discipline is plagued by serious structural and procedural flaws that make real accountability nearly impossible.” Weeks before the report’s release, Amy Campanelli, the Cook County public defender, described to me the effects of this loss of trust in the criminal- justice system. If the police kill, lie about it and take the law into their own hands, no one can be confident in calling for help during a crisis, nor can we rely on them to testify credibly in court,” she said. This is a systemic problem and is not merely a problem of individual bad actors.”Whatever apparatus is supposed to exist in the city to police the police has also operated in a way that insulates them from accountability. Jamie Kalven and Craig Futterman, the director of a civil rights and police misconduct legal- aid clinic at the University of Chicago, were instrumental in the release of the Mc. Donald video; they recently started a searchable online database of every citizen complaint against the police investigated by IPRA and the police’s internal- affairs division between 2. Of the 2. 8,5. 88 cases documented there, covering 7,7. Last year, a former IPRA supervisor named Lorenzo Davis said his boss ordered him to reverse several findings he made against officers in police shootings. A Chicago cop himself for 2. Davis was accused of “a clear bias against the police” and fired. One incident that Davis determined to be unjustified occurred in 2. I believed to be a handgun.” It was an i. Phone case. “He trained his gun on him, looked for an open shot and when he got it began to shoot,” Davis said, describing video of the shooting. That’s different than deadly force as a last resort. That was a first resort. The training has changed: The police now use the phrase ‘eliminate the threat.’ The officer who shot the 1. Photo. The Chicago activists Page May (left) and Veronica Morris- Moore. Credit. Devin Yalkin for The New York Times When Mayor Emanuel won re- election last year, after being forced into a runoff against a relative unknown, he said in his inaugural address that he would dedicate his second term to “preventing another lost generation of our city’s youth.” Veronica Morris- Moore quoted for me nearly verbatim the mayor’s words. That speech, she said, came just four weeks after the City Council voted unanimously to pay a $5 million settlement to the family of Laquan Mc. Donald. The video of the shooting was kept from the public for another seven months. Morris- Moore laughed a sad, bitter laugh, then said, “All the while, him and his people were trying to stop the release of this tape of a young teenage boy who was shot 1. On the night of Oct. Laquan Mc. Donald — black male, six feet, dark hoodie. This guy, uh, kind of walking away,” one of them radioed calmly at 9: 5. He has a knife in his hand.” They were eight miles southwest of downtown, on what was little more than an industrial service road, bordered by the Stevenson Expressway and beyond that the valley of a rail yard. The cops treated the situation like the routine encounter that it was. For a quarter mile, they trailed Mc. Donald, one in a squad car and the other on foot, giving the suspect a wide berth so as not to provoke him. Even after the teenager spiked one of the patrol car’s front tires with his three- inch blade, the officers did not fire their guns. Four additional cruisers arrived, three of them hemming in Mc. Donald on his left and one from behind. That’s when Jason Van Dyke emerged from one of these cars and shot Mc. Donald dead. The cover- up began almost immediately. He wasn’t dropping the knife, and he was coming at the officer,” a spokesman for the Fraternal Order of Police told the reporters who soon converged on the scene. Describing Mc. Donald as “crazed,” “with a strange gaze about him,” the union representative said that the officer then shot Mc. Donald in the chest: “He leaves them no choice at that point but to defend themselves.” An official department statement was issued hours later: “Officers confronted the armed offender, who refused to comply with orders to drop the knife and continued to approach the officers. As a result of this action, the officer discharged his weapon, striking the offender.”Craig Futterman, who was a public defender for juveniles on the city’s West Side before starting the University of Chicago civil rights clinic, read the story the following day. My eyes glazed over,” he said. Like Mc. Donald, a second- generation ward of the state, almost all the people shot by the Chicago police are African- American. A castoff child wandering an urban back of beyond, Mc. Donald seemed destined to be another unremarked addition to the statistics, with little known about the circumstances of his death save what the police reported. Less than three weeks later, however, a whistle- blower from inside law enforcement phoned Futterman. The caller had seen the dashcam video and insisted that it didn’t corroborate the police narrative at all. That officer shot him like a dog in the street,” Futterman recalls the source telling him. It was nothing short of an execution.” Futterman says the caller feared that the shooting would be buried like so many others in Chicago. Please, Craig,” the source implored. Look into it and let people know.”Futterman couldn’t go public with news of the video: That would compromise the identity of the caller. But the whistle- blower also told Futterman about a man who had been driving his adult son to the hospital when the police cars swarming around Mc. Donald brought him to a halt. Before he could give a statement to a cop directing traffic, the officer shooed him off with the wave of a flashlight. Jamie Kalven tracked the driver down. Leah Remini's New Scientology Doc Accuses Church of Abuse, Sexual Misconduct. Leah Remini is not holding back in her new Scientology documentary series. In the A& E docuseries’ first trailer, which is hosted by the former King of Queens actress and longtime Scientology member, the church is accused of lies, abuse and sexual misconduct.“My whole life I was a very dedicated Scientologist. I didn’t want to find out what I’d done was a lie,” Remini, who left the church in 2. Entertainment Tonight trailer. Something inside of me was saying, ‘Get them out of this thing.’ ”Remini, her sister and mother were members of the New York and Florida branches before they relocated to Los Angeles and joined the Hollywood Scientology center when the actress was a teen, but they all have since abandoned the church.“Fight for your family, fight for your daughters, your sons. Let’s get to the abuses, let’s get to the abortions,” Remini, 4. Wake up.”In a statement to PEOPLE, the Church of Scientology said, “As we said before, desperate for attention with an acting career stuck in a nearly decade- long tailspin, Leah Remini needs to move on with her life. Instead, she seeks publicity by maliciously spreading lies about the Church using the same handful of bitter zealots who were kicked out years ago for chronic dishonesty and corruption and whose false claims the Church refuted years ago, including through judicial decisions. Please see our full statement at www. Remini, who is executive producing the eight- part series, also speaks with former Scientology members about their experiences within the church. I was 1. 4 when I started in Scientology. I had a boss who was 3. They’re going to sweep it under the carpet and it’ll all be over with,” a former female church member recounts in the clip. Since leaving the church three years ago, Remini has been open about her past experiences with the religious organization, including claims she previously made about Scientology officials being controlling and intimidating toward members. She told PEOPLE in her November 2. I’ve been given a second chance at life and so has my family” and added “It’s like a rebirth.”In September, she named her daughter as one of the reasons she left the church. In my house, it’s family first – but I was spending most of my time at the church,” Remini said. So, I was saying ‘family first,’ but I wasn’t showing that. I didn’t like the message that sent my daughter.”Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath premieres Nov.
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