JESSE JACKSON CALLS FOR CHICAGO POLICE DEPT SHAKE-UP (2016 POLITICS)

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JESSE JACKSON CALLS FOR CHICAGO POLICE DEPT SHAKE-UP:

WHAT ABOUT MAYOR RAHM EMANUEL?


Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson on Saturday joined a chorus calling for Chicago's police superintendent and a top prosecutor to resign for the way they handled last year's fatal shooting of a black teenager by a white police officer.

More than a year after the October 2014 shooting, Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez this week announced a murder charge against Officer Jason Van Dyke in the slaying of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.

Hours later, the Chicago Police Department, headed by Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, released a graphic video of the shooting to comply with a court order.

Van Dyke's lawyer has said the officer opened fire because he feared for his life and the lives of other police officers when he saw McDonald had a knife.

In addition to calling for the removal of Alvarez and McCarthy, Jackson demanded the appointment of a special prosecutor to try Van Dyke. He said he wanted a federal investigation into the police department with the aim of changing what critics say is a culture of racial bias.

“We need bold comprehensive change in the police department and the criminal justice system,” Jackson said during a news conference at his Rainbow PUSH headquarters. “Too much time for too little crime.”

McDonald's death has rekindled a national debate over police treatment of African-Americans and other minorities. The soul-searching was triggered last year by high-profile police killings of black men in Missouri, New York and elsewhere.

Jackson also called for a White House conference on violence for cities in urban areas and innovation to help create opportunities in disenfranchised communities.

The video clip, taken by a camera mounted on the dashboard of a squad car, showed McDonald being shot as he walked away from officers. A total of 16 shots were pumped into his body, even after he lay motionless on the pavement.

Jackson spoke the a day after about 2,000 protesters flooded Chicago's Magnificent Mile, a strip of designer stores, to voice outrage over the killing and how the case was handled.

Some shops temporarily closed their doors because of the protests, which coincided with the start of the holiday shopping season, as demonstrators locked arms and blocked entrances.

At times, police had to escort shoppers inside.

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DARREN WILSON QUITS FERGUSON POLICE DEPT; FEARS FOR HIS LIFE; CALLS FOR HIS INDICTMENT NOT SILENCED (PEACEFUL PROTESTS & BOYCOTTS TO CONTINUE)

DARREN WILSON IS QUITTING FERGUSON POLICE DEPT.

THIS NEWS COMES FROM WILSON'S ATTORNEY.

WILSON CLAIMS HE FEARS FOR HIS LIFE.

HE STILL NEEDS TO BE INDICTED FOR EXCESSIVE FORCE WHICH RESULTED IN MURDER.

#JusticeForMikeBrown

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ARTICLE: "Cop At Center Of Ferguson Case To Leave Force"

Washington (AFP) - The Missouri police officer who killed an unarmed black teen sparking months of protests in the city of Ferguson will never return to policing, his lawyer said.

Darren Wilson is currently in discussions with the Ferguson, Missouri police department on the terms and conditions of his departure, attorney Neil Bruntrager said this week.

"There's no way in the world he can go back to being a police officer," the lawyer said.

"It's not a question of if, it's a question of when," Bruntrager said of Wilson's departure.

Wilson shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown in August claiming he acted in self-defense.

The shooting set off days of racially-charged protests that erupted again this week after a grand jury on Monday announced that Wilson would not be charged over the fatal shooting.

Bruntrager told CNN that Wilson, who has said his conscience is clear, could simply not go back to work given the outrage over the case.

"The first day he would be back on the street something terrible would happen to him or to someone that would be working with him," he told CNN.

"The last thing he wants is to put other police officers at risk," the attorney added.

#BLACKOUTBLACKFRIDAY; #NOTONEDIME; ECONOMIC BOYCOTTS AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY & RACIAL PROFILING

#NotOneDime

#BLACKOUTBLACKFRIDAY

BLACKOUT BLACK FRIDAY 2014: (ECONOMIC BOYCOTT)

Current 21st Century BLACK Buying Power = $1 Trillion Dollars!

STOP POLICE BRUTALITY AND RACIAL PROFILING IN AMERICA

It's time to Stop POLICE BRUTALITY and RACIAL PROFILING in the United States of America!

In GOD'S eyes All Human Beings are EQUAL and Valuable, even if some of them did arrive in America as Captive Slaves!

You want BLACK Money but don't want to Respect BLACK People.

Have you forgotten that BLACK People are IMMIGRANTS Too??

But you don't want to HIRE BLACK People so we can WORK with DIGNITY.

Instead you want to bring over Non-BLACK IMMIGRANTS and give them JOBS while the National BLACK Unemployment rate remains at more than 10%.

Or if you do HIRE BLACK People, you want to Mistreat them as if they have NO HUMAN RIGHTS.

If BLACK People speak out against RACIAL INJUSTICE, you want to MURDER Our Men & Boys.....throw BLACK Men in PRISON and RAPE BLACK Women.

FERGUSON'S BLACK Churches and Complacent, Older BLACK Leaders have Endorsed the RACIAL DIVISION in that region by being AFRAID to speak up!

It's the year 2014.

Why is the KLU KLUX KLAN and FEDERAL GOV'T still practicing INSTITUTIONALIZED RACISM??

Together We Should Have Overcome RACISM By Now As A Nation!

BLACKOUT BLACK FRIDAY 2014: (ECONOMIC BOYCOTT)

Thus I repeat.

Current 21st Century BLACK Buying Power = $1 Trillion Dollars!

STOP POLICE BRUTALITY AND RACIAL PROFILING IN AMERICA



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