Judge Robert Dow Jr. signed off on the consent decree that gives him oversight of the Chicago Police Department's transformation into a force respected and trusted by all Chicagoans. This Is Why Half the Internet Shut Down Today. A sickening ending indeed. 16 Shots, (formerly The Blue Wall), is the feature documentary account of the Chicago police killing of Laquan McDonald. A revamped ordinance that would create a community commission to oversee CPD was introduced at the City Council’s Public Safety Committee.
Interviews with a pair of jurors, including Charlene Cook, the only African American on the panel, also give insight into how the courtroom drama, in which the dueling narratives about the killing were parroted by prosecutors and the defense, played to the only audience that mattered.Emanuel, who announced he would not run for re-election on the eve of Van Dyke’s trial, continued to decline interview requests over the additional months of shooting. To that, I say welcome to the table gentlefolk. As I’ve argued before, Van Dyke did a horrible, rash, inexcusable thing in the heat of a moment just six seconds after exiting his police vehicle.
New Showtime documentary "16 Shots" on the Jason Van Dyke/Laquan McDonald … It was directed by Richard Rowley, and produced by Jacqueline Soohen and Jamie Kalven. 16 Shots is a documentary film about the shooting of Laquan McDonald and the subsequent police cover-up. Dr. Otis Moss III, pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ: The Fraternal Order of Police's targeting of Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx is a form of manufactured outrage that recalls past injustices.Lori Lightfoot won a resounding victory Tuesday night to become both the first African-American woman and openly gay person elected mayor of Chicago, dealing a stinging defeat to a political establishment that has reigned over City Hall for decades.Many Chicagoans and officials are incensed about charges being dropped against "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett. We follow the stories and update you as they develop.France’s Champagne producers expect about 100 million bottles to be languishing unsold in their cellars by the end of the year.Chicago’s parking meters raked in $138.7 million in 2019. Martin Luther King, Jr.Jason Van Dyke felt 'happy' after sentencing. …
But the film shortchanges viewers when it comes to the last half of the chant: the cover-up — the brazen, outrageous, wide-ranging and still unpunished official effort to conceal, minimize and outright lie about what happened. Gustaf Skarsgård on going from Vikings to Cursed.
Laquan McDonald ‘16 Shots’ Showtime documentary to premiere at University of Chicago Filmmaker Richard Rowley collaborated with Chicago journalist … "It gives you that confidence there’s no telling how far you can go. Showtime Documentary Films said Tuesday that it will premiere its new documentary 16 Shots, an examination of the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by … Maybe the change in weather will help remind people again why it is a treasure for Chicago to have created and maintained open, clear and free public parks along the lakeshore — and not permitted invasive construction of humongous 235-foot-tall towers in their place. Many viewers be seeing for the first time the entire disturbing police dashcam video of the shooting and will experience genuine suspense as they watch citizens gathered to await the verdict at the end of Van Dyke’s murder trial last fall. All told, private investors have earned $1.6 billion. The paperwork is promising, but it will be up to the next mayor to make sure the city gets the trusted police force it deserves.
That was an opportunity we couldn’t pass up,” he said.