Post by Logan on May 14, 2016 5:34:01 GMT -6
Rahm backs $2.2M settlement in case of man killed by cops in 2005
Chicago taxpayers will spend $2.2 million to compensate the family of a 23-year-old man shot to death by Chicago Police officers in 2005, under a settlement demanded months ago by Hispanic aldermen.
Ald. George Cardenas (12th), chairman of the City Council’s Hispanic Vaucus, has portrayed the shooting death of Emmanuel Lopez as every bit as egregious as the execution of Laquan McDonald.
Like McDonald, Lopez was shot 16 times by Chicago Police. And one of the officers who arrived on the scene that night was Jason Van Dyke, who has been charged with first-degree murder after unloading 16 rounds into McDonald while the black teenager was walking away from police.
Cardenas has argued that Van Dyke “was one of the first officers to arrive on the scene” the night Lopez was killed.
Read more: chicago.suntimes.com/news/rahm-backs-2-2m-settlement-in-case-of-man-killed-by-cops-in-2005/
Chicago taxpayers will spend $2.2 million to compensate the family of a 23-year-old man shot to death by Chicago Police officers in 2005, under a settlement demanded months ago by Hispanic aldermen.
Ald. George Cardenas (12th), chairman of the City Council’s Hispanic Vaucus, has portrayed the shooting death of Emmanuel Lopez as every bit as egregious as the execution of Laquan McDonald.
Like McDonald, Lopez was shot 16 times by Chicago Police. And one of the officers who arrived on the scene that night was Jason Van Dyke, who has been charged with first-degree murder after unloading 16 rounds into McDonald while the black teenager was walking away from police.
Cardenas has argued that Van Dyke “was one of the first officers to arrive on the scene” the night Lopez was killed.
Read more: chicago.suntimes.com/news/rahm-backs-2-2m-settlement-in-case-of-man-killed-by-cops-in-2005/