Watch These Hero Children Call Out Rahm Emanuel to His Face
In striking new evidence that the children will save us all, a group of hero students were filmed calling out Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to his face on Tuesday.
The encounter happened while Emanuel was attending an event promoting the 125th anniversary of Chicago’s fabled “L” public transit system.
The children chanted “16 shots and a coverup!” at the mayor. That’s a reference to the 2014 killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by Chicago Police Department Officer Jason Van Dyke. In the graphic body-cam footage–which Emanuel’s office attempted to suppress from public view after Van Dyke was charged with murder –McDonald is seen being shot at least 16 times. The eventual release of the video itself still left many unanswered questions, and there have been allegations of a cover-up in the investigation into the incident.
Just this past week, the Chicago Tribune reported that Emanuel had struck a tentative agreement with the Justice Department that would remove judicial oversight of the CPD’s reform plan. Former head of the Civil Rights Department at the Department of Justice Vanita Gupta called the agreement “woefully inadequate.”