
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

As the White House begins to hint that President Barack Obama would like to visit Cuba before his term is over, a political prisoner freed and re-arrested due to the U.S.-Cuba “normalization” deal has lost cognitive functions as he struggles to survive his 87th day on a hunger strike.
by Frances Martel4 Jan 2016, 2:33 PM PST0

Only about 20 percent of Chicago police officers carry Tasers on patrol, but now, after a series of high profile police shootings, Chicago’s police superintendent has ordered that all officers be equipped with Tasers starting next year.
by Warner Todd Huston30 Dec 2015, 2:50 PM 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

Democratic Mayor Rahm Emanuel has cut short his family vacation in Cuba to return to Chicago, following two more shooting deaths by Chicago police this past weekend, as the Windy City braces for more protests.
by Lee Stranahan28 Dec 2015, 5:18 PM PST0

Al Sharpton is demanding that Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel resign because of police shootings in Chicago.
by Michelle Fields28 Dec 2015, 2:50 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

Quentin Tarantino continues to stand by anti-police comments he made earlier this fall in a new interview, saying he “completely rejects” the “bad apples” argument that only a small number of police officers behave inappropriately on the job.
by Daniel Nussbaum21 Dec 2015, 1:37 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

Republican presidential frontrunner Marco Rubio picked up a major new donor. He also happens to be one of the most important money-men bankrolling Democratic Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel.
by Patrick Howley9 Dec 2015, 4:55 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

As pressure mounts for his resignation after the year-long delay of the release of police dashcam video of the 2014 shooting of an African American teen, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is denying charges that he delayed the release of the video in order to smooth the way for his re-election eight months ago.
by Warner Todd Huston8 Dec 2015, 12:17 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

President Obama appears reluctant to weigh in on the police violence in his hometown of Chicago, even as his former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel struggles to maintain control of the situation as the re-elected mayor of the city.
by Charlie Spiering2 Dec 2015, 12:52 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

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

With Tuesday’s release of the dashcam video of the death of Chicago teen Laquan McDonald, some are asking if the video was held back to help Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s reelection campaign earlier this year.
by Warner Todd Huston24 Nov 2015, 9:35 PM PST0

President Barack Obama has slammed Republican candidates for president several times this week while on an overseas trip. In 2008, however, Obama and his campaign attacked President George W. Bush for a perceived criticism delivered from abroad.
by Joel B. Pollak19 Nov 2015, 5:09 AM PST0

Director Spike Lee takes aim at the NRA in an interview about his new film “Chi-raq,” which he says is “going to save lives.” The film retells the classical Greek comedy “Lysistrata” against the backdrop of modern day violence in Chicago.
by Daniel Nussbaum13 Nov 2015, 10:09 AM PST0

Spike Lee’s controversial new film “Chi-Raq” retells the classic Greek comedy “Lysistrata” against the violent backdrop of modern day Chicago.
by Daniel Nussbaum3 Nov 2015, 5:05 PM PST0

Chicago’s mayor, Rahm Emanuel says intense media and public criticism is making police officers too passive – “going fetal” – and is allowing crime to spike.
by Warner Todd Huston13 Oct 2015, 8:26 AM PST0