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That is standard and normal lawyering. you can understand that. the test, of course, is not whether people have heard about your case or trial. the test is whether they can give you a fair shake. there was another pretty prominent case in chicago and didn t get the national attention and an officer basically accused of improperly using his weapon and sticking it essentially in the mouth and down the throat of a suspect with excessive force. dna found on the barrel of the gun and other evidence, a lot of discussion of it and he was acquitted. and there is always the argument here that even with attention getting inside that room, if you do the process carefully, whether it is a judge or jury trial and the defendant has that choice typically, you go in there for a fair shake and even with attention and everything else. i think the overwhelming pattern in chicago and across the country is that officers aren t indicted in these cases and when indicted they aren t usually ....
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 ....
Case? has he sabotaged it? no doubt. he leaked, his office leaked out reports from experts that were already setting up the play. so she is exactly right. our prosecutor should have put a special prosecutor in place but he didn t do that. what he did, wasted time, and taxpayers dollars with a charade of a grand jury and had the authority to come on out with it. be a man about it. come on out with it and say clearly, i do not believe there s any legal justify kigs tart prosecution of these police officers. but yet and still he dragged this out, further causing pain and anxiety for the mother and the father and the family of young tamir rice and also our community. so absolutely she is absolutely right and what she has to say about this situation and, ayman, you know, no mother should have to bury their child in this and some people so negative and heartless about this situation. he was a 12-year-old little boy who did not have to die on that ....
Convicted of the most serious charges they face. so everything we know about this system suggests a fair shake and not often going to come up guilty on the most serious charges but his lawyers have every right to emphasize they believe he s not guilty and want to look at getting him the fairest shake they can. quickly, ayman, one of the things interesting in kim foxx s statements just in the interview there, running against the current chicago prosecutor, she is making a distinction there. people said are the grand juries being misused, used for cover by prosecutors? she said here on msnbc she would only use and convene one if she thought there were charges and different than the approach taken yesterday in cleveland or ferguson and prosecutors say i don t think we should charge the officer and leaving it up to the grand jury. all right. msnbc s chief legal correspondent, ari melber, thanks for this. thanks. after the break, we go to cleveland, ohio, and dig deep into the tamir c ....
Them to do. reporter: vandyke s attorney said he needs to think about it and talk to his client about it. ayman, of course, up to the attorneys but the judge in the end. what s next for vandyke in all of this? reporter: he will be back in court january 29th 9:00 a.m. as for his state of mine, his attorney says he s not doing great right now. he is worried for his family. he was also asked if his client is staying in town as this case moves forward and no comment on that due to safety reasons. all right. sarah dallof live for us in chicago with that update on that. in the wake of the police shooting in chicago, this past weekend that left two people dead, the calls for mayor emanuel to resign are once again gaining momentum. joining me is pastor mike edy who runs a congregation on chicago s west side and met with mayor on ways to move the city forward and a question on a lot of people s minds. i want to read something to you that you wrote in an op-ed for ....