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Killed the murders have not been resolved, have not been solved. so thats why theres such a crisis in confidence. i think we need federal oversight because we need investigation of all who saw the tape and what the actions were with subpoena power. >> theres a very strong editorial run in the "new york times" yesterday in which a law professor formerly in columbia and now chicago essentially alleges that the pattern of this was a cover-up and that not only superintendent mccarthy but anita alvar...

But killed fred hampton and mark clark to john burge and people into false confessions to jason. its an unbroken line, and the culture of silence, the silence, the culture of dont tell, the culture of suppression, the culture of lying, the culture of policemen afraid of other police does not change sufficiently. theres one kid that got shot. there are other tapes in other cases yet to be resolved, as well. as a matter of fact, we paid the last few years a half billion dollars in police misconduc...

And new leadership to confront the challenges the department and our community and our city are facing as we go forward. ive asked the first deputy to serve as acting commissioner until the police force conducts a thorough search. . >> that press conference today, chicago mayor rahm emanuel also announced a new task force on police accountability. according to the mays office, they will recommend reforms, all of todays developments come exactly one week after dash cam vid was are leased of the d...

Killed and reported widely in the media and the autopsy slowing he was shot 16 times. back in february, we filed a freedom of information act request asking the chicago police department for the dashcam footage we had heard existed of the shooting. that request was rejected. an appeal was also rejected. later on an nbc chicago report surfaced over an hour of surveillance video at a burger king near the site of the shooting had been erased, something yet to be fully explained as of this broadcast...

Crisis erupts, the head of the commissioner is fired, a blue ribbon commission is appointed. and then pretty quickly, public attention moves elsewhere and the status quo reasserts itself. i think the challenge here is to ensure that that doesnt happen. but i see an opportunity for really significant police reform. and i mean its very poignant that it emerges out of the almost holy negative example of how the city responded to the shooting of laquan mcdonald. >> the mayor has announced a task for...

Rubio in the new hampshire polls and every other poll, including florida, rubio isnt there. >> you have iowa, which rubio almost certainly wont win. new hampshire, maybe. but not looking -- and after that, you have three weeks of mainly southern primary that dont, to me, look like great rubio territory. >> and as you say, it could be trump all the way. >> if you had to bet tonight, is it trump all the way? >> if i had to bet simply on whats the best bet, i would say trump, yeah. >> yeah. >> than...

Recent allegations as part of the reporting weve been doing around policing in chicago for the past two years. in the summer of 2014, we confronted mayor emmanuel about a report the police department which had reported a dramatic drop in homicides was manipulating the stats. >> do you have full faith that these statistics are not being duped? >> yes, absolutely. the superintendent of the police department leadership very focused on intelligence, data driven focus, through different methods and y...

That was made to the city council. >> so what facts were presented to the city council? were the city counselors told the victim of this shooting was walking away from police? because at that time the public information from chicago from the police department and the police union was that he was moving toward the police officers and threatening the police officers. >> that was not what was stated at that meeting. i got a copy of the transcript just to make sure, and there was language to the eff...

Oversight because we need investigation of all who saw the tape and what the actions were with subpoena power. >> theres a very strong editorial run in the "new york times" yesterday in which a law professor formerly in columbia and now chicago essentially alleges that the pattern of this was a cover-up and that not only superintendent mccarthy but anita al ra rez, the prosecutor who took 400 days to charge and mayor emmanuel himself that they should all lose their jobs and all step down. what d...

Its an unbroken line, and the culture of silence, the silence, the culture of dont tell, the culture of suppression, the culture of lying, the culture of policemen afraid of other police does not change sufficiently. theres one kid that got shot. there are other tapes in other cases yet to be resolved, as well. as a matter of fact, we paid the last few years a half billion dollars in police misconduct. while were threatening to lay off 5,000 teachers, a half billion in misconduct which could sus...