I AM TOLD BY RAHM EMANUEL THAT RAHM EMANUEL CARES A LOT
ABOUT THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY IN CHICAGO AND THE
EXCESSIVE USE OF FORCE BY THE CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT
AGAINST THEM.
THAT IS WHAT HE TELLS ME.
I HAVE A DIFFERENT
STORY TO TELL YOU IN A SECOND, BUT FIRST, LET'S REMEMBER, JUST
A LITTLE WHILE AGO HE GAVE THIS TEARY SPEECH ABOUT HOW MUCH HE
CARES ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE COMMUNITY WITH THE
CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT.
ONE YOUNG MAN ASKED ME A SIMPLE QUESTION THAT GETS TO THE
CORE OF WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT.
HE SAID, DO YOU THINK THE
POLICE WOULD EVER TREAT YOU THE WAY THEY TREAT ME?
AND THE ANSWER IS NO.
AND THAT IS WRONG.
AND THAT HAS TO
CHANGE IN THE CITY.
THAT HAS TO COME TO AN END, AND END NOW.
NO
CITIZEN IS A SECOND-CLASS CITIZEN IN THE CITY OF CHICAGO.
I WAS SKEPTICAL AT THE TIME, IT WAS ABOUT A WEEK AGO HE GAVE
THAT SPEECH, BECAUSE THAT JUST OCCURRED TO YOU?
THAT PERHAPS
SOME OF CHICAGO MIGHT BE TREATED DIFFERENTLY THAN THE MAYOR?
THAT
WAS LIKE A TEARY-EYED REVELATION FOR YOU, THAT YOUNG BLACK KIDS
ARE ROUGHED UP BY THE CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT IN A WAY THAT
THE MAYOR MAY NOT BE?
OKAY.
NOW WE FIND OUT, A NICE
INVESTIGATION BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS --
OH, SO YOU HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS FOR OVER A YEAR,
THINKING ABOUT HOW YOU WILL COORDINATE THE COVER-UP?
WHY
WEREN'T YOU BROKEN UP ABOUT HOW THE CHICAGO PD TREATS BLACK
PEOPLE A YEAR AGO, WHEN YOU SAW THE VIDEO?
HE SAYS I DIDN'T SEE
THE VIDEO, THE VIDEO OF MCDONALD GETTING SHOT 16 TIMES, 14 TIMES
ON THE GROUND, WHEN HE WAS CLEARLY NOT A THREAT.
YOU DIDN'T
KNOW ABOUT?
IT SEEMS LIKE YOU HAVE THOUSANDS OF EMAILS FROM
YOUR OFFICE INDICATING THAT YOU KNEW A LOT ABOUT IT.
WHY WEREN'T
YOU TEARY-EYED A YEAR AGO?
THAT IS BECAUSE YOUR ASS WASN'T ON
THE LINE.
NOW YOUR POLITICAL CAREER IS IN TROUBLE, AND THAT
IS WHY, [CRYING] IT TURNS OUT THEY TREAT AFRICAN AMERICANS
DIFFERENTLY IN CHICAGO, I DIDN'T KNOW THAT.
HE SAYS HE IS DOING
ALL HE CAN.
EVEN FIRED THE CHIEF OF POLICE.
HE DID NOT FIRE THE
CHIEF OF POLICE WHEN HE FOUND OUT WHAT THEY DID TO LAQUAN
MCDONALD, HE FIRED HIM AFTER YOU FOUND OUT.
IT TURNS OUT IN
EMAILS, WHAT WERE THEY MOST OBSESSED ABOUT?
PRESS COVERAGE.
LISTEN TO THE BEGINNING OF THIS SENTENCE --
ALL THE WAY BACK IN MAY --
THAT IS NOT A PARTICULARLY EGREGIOUS EMAIL, I THINK I HAVE
ONE IN A SECOND, BUT IT GIVES YOU A SENSE WHAT THEY WERE
TALKING ABOUT.
THEY KNEW WHAT THIS CASE WAS ABOUT, AND THEY
WERE LIKE, TREAD LIGHTLY.
THIS IS A DISASTER.
WE HAVE NOT DONE
ANY POLICE REFORMS, WE HAVE NOT TAKEN ANY ACTION TO CORRECT IT,
BECAUSE WHAT THEY ARE MOST WORRIED ABOUT IS A PR DISASTER
FOR RAHM EMANUEL'S OFFICE.
DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE HE HAS THE
COMMUNITY'S BEST INTERESTS AT HEART?
IF I SAW THAT REPORT, I
HOPE IF YOU SAW IT, IF YOU SAW PEOPLE GETTING SHOT 16 TIMES
WHILE THEY ARE WALKING AWAY FROM THE COPS, GETTING MURDERED IN
THE STREET LIKE THAT, 14 BULLETS AFTER HE IS ALREADY DOWN, I
WOULD HAVE BEEN PISSED.
I'D HAVE GONE TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT
AND SAID WHAT THE HELL IS THE MATTER, HOW ARE YOU DOING YOUR
TRAINING?
IS THIS GUY A BAD APPLE?
IF HE IS, LET'S PROSECUTE
HIM TODAY.
YOU BETTER SHOW ME THAT HE IS THE ONLY BAD APPLE.
GOOD LUCK WITH THAT.
HE ALREADY KNOWS CHICAGO POLICE HAS A BLACK
SITE WHERE THEY MAKE SOME DETAINEES DISAPPEAR FOR A WHILE.
THAT IS INSANE.
IT IS NOT LIKE RAHM EMANUEL DOESN'T KNOW THAT,
DOESN'T KNOW THESE PROBLEMS.
YES, I WOULD HAVE ASKED FOR
BETTER TRAINING IF HE WASN'T A BAD APPLE BEFORE MY ASS WAS IN
TROUBLE.
BUT LOOK AT THIS OTHER EMAIL FROM AN EMANUEL AIDE --
OH, I SEE.
IS THAT WHAT THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY IS
DOING?
STIRRING THE POT?
IT SEEMS LIKE YOU ARE BLAMING THEM.
THESE GUYS, THEY ALWAYS WANT SOMETHING, RIGHT?
THERE THEY GO
AGAIN, STIRRING THE POT.
WE HAD THIS THING FIGURED OUT, RAHM
EMANUEL HAD NO INTEREST IN REFORMING THE POLICE AT ALL
UNTIL YOU STARTED STIRRING THE POT ABOUT MURDERED KIDS.
HE IS A
17-YEAR-OLD WALKING AWAY FROM THE COPS, SHOT AND KILLED, NOW
THERE ARE FINALLY CHARGES AFTER YOU FOUND OUT?
WE HAD IT WRAPPED
UP FOR A YEAR, THAT GUY WAS STILL ON THE POLICE FORCE, OR
NOT INDICTED, EVERYBODY WAS FINE, EVERYBODY'S POLITICAL
CAREER WAS FINE UNTIL YOU STIRRED THE POT WITH YOUR
BOO-HOO, EVERYBODY IS GETTING KILLED BY THE COPS.
REALLY,
RAHM?
WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE YOUR CROCODILE TEARS
ABOUT HOW YOU JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS PROBLEM AND IT
ENRAGED YOU?
YOU WILL EXCUSE US IF WE DON'T BELIEVE YOU.
YOUNG TURKS.