CNN Analyst Compares Laquan McDonald Shooting to Fallujah
A CNN law enforcement analyst compared the shooting death of a black teenager in Chicago by a white police officer to armed combat in the Iraqi city of Fallujah. Carol Costello brought on freelance...
View ArticleProtesters for Laquan McDonald Plan Chicago March to Disrupt Black Friday
As Black Friday continues to promote the holidays with rampant consumerism and violent frenzies across America, the shopping areas of Chicago are facing additional pressure as protests continue over...
View ArticleBREAKING: Chicago Police Chief Fired
As racial justice protests continue in Chicago over the death of Laquan McDonald, the demonstrations have claimed their first bureaucratic victim: the chief of police. The Chicago Sun-Times reported...
View ArticleJustice Department to Investigate Chicago Police for Laquan McDonald’s Death
The renewed furor over the murder of Laquan McDonald triggered the latest in a series of protests for racial justice across the city last month. Now, reports say that the Justice Department will launch...
View ArticleNew Audio Reveals Officers Requested Help to Subdue Laquan McDonald Before...
A FOIA request freed up a new audio file from the night Laquan McDonald died, and it turns out, police officers requested non-lethal backup to subdue the black teen before a cop shot him to death....
View ArticleEmails Show Coordination Between Chicago PD, Mayor’s Office Over Laquan...
Thousands of emails were released yesterday after multiple requests from the press about communications between the Chicago police and Mayor Rahm Emanuel‘s office over the death of Laquan McDonald....
View ArticleNews Station Somehow Uses McDonald’s Logo When Covering Laquan McDonald Case
Today, the case against the officer who shot and killed black teen Laquan McDonald went to court, which has been a long time coming. A video of Officer Jason Van Dyke shooting McDonald 16 times was...
View ArticleProsecutors in Tamir Rice, Laquan McDonald Cases Lose Election Races
The fatal shootings of Tamir Rice and Laquan McDonald were clearly on the minds of voters in Cleveland and Chicago last night, with the prosecutors in both those cases rejected in both of their...
View ArticleChicago Cop Faces Murder Charge for Shooting Black Teen 16 Times
A white Chicago policeman has been charged with first degree murder after shooting a black teenager 16 times in 2014. In an incident that has since stirred racial tensions, authorities approached...
View ArticleAOC Slams Nomination of Rahm Emanuel as Ambassador to Japan: ‘Deeply Shameful’
Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) came out on Wednesday against the nomination of former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to be ambassador to Japan, calling it “deeply...
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