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Killed the murders have not been resolved, have not been solved. so that's why there's 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. >> there's 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 alvarez, the prosecutor who took 400 days to charge and mayor emmanuel himself that they should all lo...

But killed fred hampton and mark clark to john burge and people into false confessions to jason. it's an unbroken line, and the culture of silence, the silence, the culture of don't tell, the culture of suppression, the culture of lying, the culture of policemen afraid of other police does not change sufficiently. there's 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 we're threatening to lay off 5,000 teachers, a half billion in misconduct which could su...

And new leadership to confront the challenges the department and our community and our city are facing as we go forward. i've 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 may's office, they will recommend reforms, all of today's developments come exactly one week after dash cam vid was are leased of the deadly shooting of laquan mcdonald by police officer jason van dyke. officer van dyke is charged w...

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. we spoke to the manager of the burger king. this summer, we spoke to a former investigator with ch...

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 doesn't happen. but i see an opportunity for really significant police reform. and i mean it's 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 force. you mention aid task force, deval patrick among others who was born in chicago, hasn't lived t...