
Embattled Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has maintained since the beginning of the controversy over the 2014 death of a 17-year-old African American teen that he had little knowledge of the police dashcam video of the shooting. But new evidence shows that Emanuel was fully informed about what the video contained and led his lawyers to quash the release of the video just as he was running for re-election.
by Warner Todd Huston7 Jan 2016, 11:05 AM PST0

A top aide to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel was physically assaulted while attending a vigil for two people killed by Chicago police officers.
by Warner Todd Huston29 Dec 2015, 1:55 PM PST0

A couple hundred angry Black Lives Matter protesters once again took to the streets in Chicago, upset over the shooting death of Laquan McDonald and what they say is a coverup by Chicago’s Democrat Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The announcement came to protest “Mayor Scrooge” Emanuel on Christmas Eve on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile district of Michigan Avenue.
by Lee Stranahan24 Dec 2015, 12:13 PM PST0

Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel is facing growing calls for his resignation a full two weeks after the city released the shocking police dashcam video of a city police officer shooting an African-American teen to death.
by Warner Todd Huston10 Dec 2015, 7:43 PM PST0

The troubles facing recently re-elected Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel are mounting as a disparate group of activists are working to force him to resign. More ominous for the mayor, two state legislators are trying a different tactic by filing a bill that would change the law and allow city voters to impeach or recall the mayor.
by Warner Todd Huston10 Dec 2015, 2:41 PM PST0

The Chicago Police Department released the after action reports written by the officers involved in the 2014 shooting of an African American teen on Friday, but those accounts differ significantly from the details seen in the dashcam video of the shooting that sparked a week of protests in the Windy City.
by Warner Todd Huston8 Dec 2015, 12:21 PM PST0

In a late-night Sunday media dump, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office announced that Scott Ando, chief administrator of the Independent Police Review Authority, has resigned, effective immediately, and will be replaced by Sharon Fairly, who had spent eight years as an assistant U.S. attorney before becoming first deputy and general counsel of the city’s Office of the Inspector General.
by Lee Stranahan7 Dec 2015, 6:04 AM PST0

After more than a week of protesters flooding the streets of Chicago over the death of an African-American teen shot by a city police officer over a year ago, the Department of Justice is poised to finally launch a probe into the actions surrounding the shooting.
by Warner Todd Huston6 Dec 2015, 7:00 PM PST0

Even the New York Times is supporting the growing calls for the resignation of Chicago’s mayor and county prosecutor, following the year-long cover-up of the videotape which shows the unjustified shooting of a wounded black youth in October 2014.
by Warner Todd Huston1 Dec 2015, 7:20 PM PST0

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel fired his top cop, Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, on Tuesday morning as the controversy over the 2014 shooting of Chicago teenager Laquan McDonald continues to reverberate in the Windy City.
by Warner Todd Huston1 Dec 2015, 10:09 AM PST0

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS—A planned NAACP press conference at Chicago’s City Hall was briefly scuttled by an angry black protester who slammed establishment Democrat activists and members of President Barack Obama’s fractious progressive and multicultural coalition.
by Lee Stranahan30 Nov 2015, 9:54 PM PST0

An electrical engineering student named Jabari R. Dean has been arrested for allegedly posting the online threats of violence that led to the cancellation of classes at the University of Chicago on Monday.
by Warner Todd Huston30 Nov 2015, 5:31 PM PST0

As the sixth day of protests over the police-involved shooting of a 17-year-old Chicago teen rages on, members of local NAACP chapters paraded a full-sized coffin outside Chicago’s City Hall, chanting phrases and joining in calls for both Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy and State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez to resign their offices.
by Warner Todd Huston30 Nov 2015, 2:40 PM PST0

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (D) criticized Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Chicago protests as “exploitation of situation” on Friday’s “Varney & Co” on the Fox Business Network. Clarke stated that the rally in Chicago headed by Jackson “highlights, I believe, the
by Ian Hanchett27 Nov 2015, 9:26 PM PST0

CNN Commentator and Morehouse College Professor Marc Lamont Hill said the Black Friday protests in Chicago were “saying that we’re not going to continue to fund our own genocide” on Friday’s “Legal View with Ashleigh Banfield” on CNN. Hill responded
by Ian Hanchett27 Nov 2015, 9:26 PM PST0

A third day of protests descended upon Chicago’s busy downtown Michigan Avenue shopping district, shutting down some stores as protesters barricaded doors arm-in-arm to prevent shoppers from entering or leaving stores on Chicago’s famed “Magnificent Mile.”
by Warner Todd Huston27 Nov 2015, 5:38 PM PST0

Demonstrators in Chicago say they will march down the city’s Magnificent Mile to disrupt Black Friday shopping in order to bring attention to the killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. After Officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with first degree murder,
by Pam Key27 Nov 2015, 8:16 AM PST0

On Thursday thousands of Chicago residents had their Thanksgiving interrupted by a robocall featuring the voice of Jesse Jackson, Sr. and sponsored by the Chicago Teachers Union urging Chicagoans to join them in disrupting the Windy City’s Black Friday shopping day downtown.
by Warner Todd Huston27 Nov 2015, 6:18 AM PST0

Chicago was subjected to a second night of protests after the release of police dashcam video depicting the 2014 shooting of an African American teen, with protesters fanning out beyond the planned protests and even destroying Christmas tree decorations while yelling “black lives matter” and “F*ck your Christmas tree!” Protesters are also threatening to shut down Black Friday shopping downtown.
by Warner Todd Huston26 Nov 2015, 3:33 PM PST0

Chicago is enduring a second night of protests after the release of police video showing the minutes leading up to the 2014 shooting of an African-American teen. Wednesday night, a second video has been released, showing video from the cruiser of the officer who fired the 16 fatal shots that killed the teen.
by Warner Todd Huston25 Nov 2015, 8:30 PM PST0

As the protests over the Laquan McDonald shooting raged across The Windy City, a Chicago Police document warned that gang members might use the cover of the protests to commit crimes or attack police.
by Warner Todd Huston25 Nov 2015, 6:54 PM PST0

Breaking news updates from Breitbart News as Chicago protests rage over video showing the fatal police shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald:.
by Breitbart News25 Nov 2015, 6:20 PM PST0

President Obama commented on the video that was released of the shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by a police officer in Chicago.
by Charlie Spiering25 Nov 2015, 5:23 PM PST0

Protests have broken out all over Chicago as people gather to express outrage over the police shooting of an African American teenager, Laquon McDonald. The shooting happened in October 2014, but video of the incident was only released Tuesday evening.
by Warner Todd Huston24 Nov 2015, 6:04 PM PST0

The city of Chicago was on edge Tuesday evening as the Chicago Police Department prepared to release a video of the death of 17-year-old Laquan MacDonald, who was shot 16 times by Officer Jason Van Dyke in October last year. The teen was black, the officer white.
by Joel B. Pollak24 Nov 2015, 3:36 PM PST0