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Over a year ago in October, 2014, 17-year-old Laquan McDonald was shot 16 times by a Chicago policeman and killed. With the support of Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez, the city fought several attempts to have the dashcam video of the incident released to the public. By Wednesday, the video will be released by judicial order. An entire city now girds itself for possible demonstrations and riots. Once more community leaders anticipate that Chicago citizens will take to the streets — hopefully in nonviolent, disciplined demonstrations — to demand that Black Lives Matter.
Yet even while the tape remained secret, the Chicago City Council, acting on advice of a city attorney who had seen the tape, according to local media reports, voted for a $5 million settlement for the McDonald family before the family even filed a lawsuit.
originally posted by: Hecate666
OK but meanwhile plenty of white people have also been shot by white and black cops. If anyone should riot, it should be people of all colours. Nobody is safe from US cops, no man and no beast.
originally posted by: Hecate666
OK but meanwhile plenty of white people have also been shot by white and black cops. If anyone should riot, it should be people of all colours. Nobody is safe from US cops, no man and no beast.
originally posted by: CharlieSpeirs
Yeah, they gave the family 5 million, before any lawsuit occurred, all because the pig is innocent.
Apologists will say anything when a perp is black, no matter what happened.
#BlackLivesMatter
originally posted by: slapjacks
a reply to: LSU0408
I care, I'm in Chicago.
Unfortunately, I have to travel through the city quite frequently.
originally posted by: Metallicus
a reply to: ghostrager
It has gotten to the point where a white police officer can't do his/her job without some sort of public outcry. I suggest we only have gay, black, female Muslim police officers so we can be certain that there is no social injustice agenda moving forward.
originally posted by: LSU0408
originally posted by: CharlieSpeirs
Yeah, they gave the family 5 million, before any lawsuit occurred, all because the pig is innocent.
Apologists will say anything when a perp is black, no matter what happened.
#BlackLivesMatter
How much do they matter?