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To suggest that the reports that they wrote in relationship to this case may have some serious issues and the fact that they have not been called to justice, the fact that it took 400 days for anita alvarez to charge laquan mcdonald s shooter causes serious concerns about her ability to do her j.b. we have also been learning around the country, people debating the grand jury process, as they see it, used controversially, can you give potential voters in chicago or viewers around the country a view of the right way to use a grand jury? would you if elected use a grand jury to present potential charges in cases you don t think they re warranted in the tamir rice announcement yesterday, the prosecutor basically said he didn t think charges were warranted. okay. his call. but that he presented to the grand jury anyway and left people confused. what would you say about that your approach potentially to that? certainly. if you re going to convene a grand jury, the prosecutor has a respon ....
I think relating to the state s attorney of cook county, we have an opportunity to vote in march and bring new leadership in that office. i would like to bring in the chief legal correspondent ari melber who s been part of this conversation. he would like to ask you a question. thanks. hey, ms. foxx. specifically when you look at the case of officer vandyke who pled not guilty today in the first-degree murder charges against laquan mcdonald, should they also should the current prosecutor al va vvarez looking charging other air forces for false statements and cover-up in that case? we have seen the video and officers made false statements. superintendent mccarthy before he was removed acknowledged that. and yet right now there seem to be no consequences for this. that goes, again, why there s a lack of faith and trust in the current state s attorney and you have the additional officers still on the force today who are still, you know, testifying in courts today, who are still wr ....
A good faith belief that they have a case. so to convene a grand jury and that prosecutor to not believe or not want to recommend the charges be filed in that case, makes no sense. i would use the grand jury properly which is to convene it when i believe there s a good faith reason to believe we can go forth on a kiss. all right. ms. kim foxx, thank you for your time. i appreciate that. thank you for joining us. let s stick with ari melber for a second and get your response if i can on a few of these issues and particularly change of venue. we have heard in the previous commentary, do you feel in a situation like this, the spotlight on chicago, on this judge, on this trial, the officer, jason vandyke, can get a fair trial in the city of chicago or do you think he may have to change that venue? look. it is a great question. from a criminal defense perspective, you are always going to look to address any issue to give you an edge or a fair shake is how they would put it. and they h ....
Strong reaction, it is totally understandable because young tamir rice and we know lots of times african-american boys are seen as older than what they really, really are but he was a 12-year-old little boy and if anybody want it is video, ayman, see very clearly he did not have a chance to respond even if he would have complied with the police officers. he didn t have a chance less than two seconds when they opened the door. this is serious, ayman, beyond cleveland. this is about a state and a nation that has to answer the cries of its african-american and hispanic citizens that there s injustices within a justice system that sees african-americans and hispanic folks more criminal than anybody else. so, yes, those are strong words and those words are deserved. do you, ms. turner, do you support her words about the way the prosecutor handled this ....
Tamir rice to die in the way that he did, it just doesn t make sense and just bone chilling. i don t have words to describe the agony that not only i feel but many in the greater cleveland community feel over what happened yesterday with the grand jury. just this whole scenario, i mean, ayman, we have been going through this over a year. right. in the city of cleveland and to build up to this, the community no way surprised by what the prosecutor had to say. let me if i may read for you and our viewers a statement out of the family of tamir rice. this was released this afternoon and a part of it reads the following. quote, my family an ri in pain and devastated by the nonindictment of officers loehman and garmback for the murder of beloved tamir. this investigation over a year and prosecutor mcginty s mishandling, we no longer trust the local criminal justice system and we view as corrupt. ....