and we have i believe a short clip of making a different emphasis last week saying this is one officer who doesn t represent the police department. let s listen to that from last week. anybody who is there to uphold the law cannot act like they re above the law. jason vandyke does not represent the police department. what you hear there, obviously srks the mayor flanked by mccarthy who he fired today saying one officer is a bad apple. doesn t represent the pd and only a problem with one officer. a marked contrast and rahm basically talking about his chief mccarthy becoming the distraction. let s listen to that. he has become an issue rather than dealing with the issue. and a distraction. i have a lot of loyalty to what he s done and rim but i have a bigger loyalty to the city of chicago, the future and the strength of that future and no
you had issues going on, and what i m saying, i m thinking the mind-set there was, okay, we re going to push it up to the very end, but also this nation is a hotbed with this right now. i m not saying that they were justified in what they were doing, but i m looking at the time and trying to understand as a journalist why they would wait and why this was, when it first went out in the news, it was a story about 200 to 300 words. just to jump in, i think april makes a very understandable point, because of those public safety implications, but, again, this is not only about those kind of decisions. there is a legal process, and there is freedom of information. that is the law that justified this release. the idea being, and i m sure we re in an agreement generally, i understand you re talking about what the officials have to think about, but, again, in the courts, this is public information. that s why it s out. and the citizens of chicago have a right to view this type of material and
what i m saying, i m thinking the mind-set there was, okay, we re going to push it up to the very end, but also this nation is a hotbed with this right now. i m not saying that they were justified in what they were doing, but i m looking at the time and trying to understand as a journalist why they would wait and why this was, when it first went out in the news, it was a story about 200 to 300 words. just to jump in, i think april makes a very understandable point, because of those public safety implications, but, again, this is not only about those kind of decisions. there is a legal process, and there is freedom of information. that is the law that justified this release. the idea being, and i m sure we re in an agreement generally, i understand you re talking about what the officials have to think about, but, again, in the courts, this is public information. that s why it s out. and the citizens of chicago have a right to view this type of material and make up their own mind. whet
the case of getting a plea or number two to show confidence in your case. this seems more likely as a second-degree murder case because it s mitigation and illinois statute specifically allows for a mistaken justification when someone believes a killing would have been lawfully justified even though the belief was unreasonable. wish we had more time to talk about the evidence, especially with the video and the times he was shot and the circumstances around it. seema eiyer good to have you wih me. we heard the attorney say the clients are within training. chicago mayor has a very different opinion. anybody who is there to uphold the law cannot act like they re above the law. and that is both a principle that is used to make sure it reflects the culture in the police department and i want to say one thing. there are men and women both in leadership position and rank and file who live and follow that
words out. and when i say peaceful, they ll still be passionate, they might still be something that s hard to watch, but when i think of peaceful, i don t know if we ll see looting or cars burning. that s what i mean by peaceful, but the passion will still be there. rahm emanuel, the mayor of chicago was adamant in tonight s press conference that officer van dyk does not represent the culture of the chicago pd. anybody who is there to uphold the law cannot act like they re above the law. and that is both a principle that is used to make sure it reflects the culture in the police department. and i want to say one thing. there are men and women, both in leadership positions and rank and file who follow and live by that principle every day. all right, so, joy, you have the mayor there appealing to the community, saying, look, you know, don t judge the police department, what do we know about the relationship between the black community in chicago and rahm emanuel? is he and his poli