tamir rice case, he almost flunked out of the police academy. he clearly wasn t well equipped to be an officer. so the fact he s allowed to be on the streets, license to kill, again, that really does send the message that black lives don t matter in this police department. you know, we have to think about what bernie sanders said about sandra bland, that if she were a white woman she would be alive today. and i think a lot of people will look at tamir and say if this were a 12-year-old white boy playing with a toy gun the cops would not have killed him. they certainly wouldn t have killed him less than two seconds after watching him. i hear you, mr. butler. it is it should take courage to be a police officer. it should not take courage to be 12 years old and playing on the playground. paul butler, former federal prosecutor and georgetown law professor. i thank you for your time tonight. and he brought up bernie sanders. and in fact, senator bernie sanders is going to join us live i
a big day in court. in the police killing of laquan mcdonald, again, he was killed in october of 2014, so well over a year ago. tomorrow the officer charged with first-degree murder in that case is scheduled to be arraigned. his lawyer has said he will fight the charges vigorously. so we re expecting the officer to plead not guilty. but the officer s attorney has also objected to mayor rahm emanuel saying the officer violated the standards of professionalism and moral standards when he shot laquan mcdonald 16 times. the defense attorney says he will seek a change of venue because he says his client can no longer get a fair trial in chicago. we will be right back. when you ve got a house full of guests on the way and a cold with sinus pressure, you need fast relief. alka-seltzer plus severe sinus congestion and cough liquid gels rush relief to your tough symptoms. to put you back in control. [doorbell] woman: coming! alka-seltzer plus sinus.
they questioned whether city officials were woifrd that ferguson-style black lives matter protests would break out in the middle of chicago s mayoral election this spring. chicago officials deny it, but their critics openly wonder whether the timing and the emmanuel campaign worried that reaction from black lives matter would derail the mayor s hopes for a second term. and now as we head into the final days of 2015 there is news of yet another deadly police shooting, this time involving a college student with mental illness and a grandmother of 10. both killed in their homes, not in the treat. the incident happened early saturday morning in a small two-story home on chicago s west side. police were responding to a 911 call made by the father of a 19-year-old, quintani lagreer. lagreer was an engineering student home for the holidays who got into an argument with his father and according to the chicago sun-times the young man s father called police to remove his son, saying that he wa
for one officer it was his fourth. by now you know the names of some of those killed. it s a drumbeat that seems not to end. unarmed walter scott in north charleston shot in the back by a police officer this april after fleeing from a traffic stop. eric harris in tulsa killed within two days of the first incident. he was killed by a reserve deputy who says he meant to draw his taser but accidentally pulled a gun instead, killing harris. freddie gray in baltimore also died in april after suffering a spinal injury and falling into a coma while in police custody. those all happened while other high-profile cases continued to play out like michael brown and eric garner in 2014. and just last month we saw 2014 video of laquan mcdonald s shooting by police in chicago. and many questioned the decision by the chicago mayor and city council to settle with the family and to not release that video for nearly a year.
a baseball bat. he called his downstairs neighbor betty jones and told her not to answer the door until the police arrived. the sun-times says when police did arrive on the scene le greer s father heard jones yell whoa, whoa, whoa as if she were attempting to intervene in the police confrontation with his son. shortly thereafter she died from a gunshot wound. according to an autopsy obtained by the associated press, 19-year-old le grier was also killed by multiple gunshot wounds. in a statement the chicago police officer said they were confronted by a combative subject and added that jones was accidentally struck. i feel like i just want to wake up and have my mom say that was a dream. but i can t. she s gone. she was murdered. and that s all in my heart. my mom was so scared of my oldest son that s 15 to get shot by the police officers. but who instead gets shot and killed? her. what about the taser?