Police superintendent Garry McCarthy resigned this week over the handling of the teenager’s shooting – but he’s not the only one accused of dishonestyIt’s the year of police chief firings,and the latest official to topple is Chicago superintendent Garry McCarthy, who was summarily dismissed on Tuesday following the withholding and eventual release of dashcam footage of a police shooting that contradicted officials’ accounts of the altercation. But McCarthy is not the only one potentially implicated in what many in Chicago have called a cover-up in the shooting of Laquan McDonald. McCarthy had been an embattled superintendent even before the release of the video, and facing backlash over a series of violent summers,marked most recently by the shooting death of nine-year-ancient Tyshawn Lee. But as the McDonald story unfolded, McCarthy’s name wasn’t the only one on the lips of protesters upset at a clear lack of transparency and honesty. Both Rahm Emanuel, and the city’s mayor,and Anita Alvarez, the states attorney responsible for criminally prosecuting police officers, or have advance under fire for their roles,in a city infamous for corruption and police misconduct.
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Source: theguardian.com