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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn Chicago, distrust toward mayor has turned ‘personal’
By William Wan and Mark Guarino
CHICAGO Mayor Rahm Emanuel cut short a family vacation this past week and returned to a city in crisis: On the North Side, more than a dozen people stood outside his house, hurling insults. On the West Side, a close aide was punched and kicked while attending a prayer vigil for a police shooting victim. And all week long, there were protesters, haunting one of Emanuels biggest political donors, haranguing his police force, beating a papier-mâché likeness of his face at City Hall.
More than a month has passed since a judge forced Emanuel (D) and other city officials to release a graphic video of a white Chicago police officer shooting a black teenager 16 times.But public anger over the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald in October 2014 has not dissipated. Instead, it has grown bitter and more personal.
Oh, its personal, all right. Were making it personal, yelled JaMal Green, 20, a former Emanuel supporter who spent hours in bone-cold weather on the sidewalk outside the mayors spacious Ravenswood home, mocking him and urging him to resign.
The protests reflect frustration with chronic problems Emanuel inherited in Chicago, a city long plagued by police brutality, failing schools, rampant gang violence and dire finances. But as Emanuel enters his second term, critics say he has deepened distrust in City Hall through a string of scandals affecting his administration, a lack of transparency and his abrasive personal style.
More anger may be on the way.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-chicago-distrust-toward-mayor-has-turned-personal/2016/01/02/4881c8e6-aff9-11e5-9ab0-884d1cc4b33e_story.html
tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)Does Hillary still support him? Pres. Obama?
SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)The "punched and kicked" part bothers me, but it sure illustrates the frustration.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)...
Asked by reporters in Fort Dodge, Iowa on Friday whether she still has confidence in her old friend, Clinton said I do, according to Bloomberg Politics.
He loves Chicago and Im confident that hes going to do everything he can to get to the bottom of these issues and take whatever measures are necessary to remedy them, added Clinton, a Chicago-area native.
SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)He either knew what was going on or is incompetent and uninformed.
Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)Congratulations.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)... simply trying to rehabilitate Hillary's support for Rahm?
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Igel
(35,356 posts)If you don't like the information, question the source.
Notice how anything cited by Fox, even if it's repeating an AP or Reuters story, is immediately questioned? Having the story go against what the person wants to believe is often an immediate trigger to the reflex. Not always--some just respond in knee-jerk fashion to the use of an ideologically impure source.
"Ad hominem" is the phrase we want here. The person can't be telling the truth or providing useful information or reasoning because of who the person is, independent of the truth value of the logic or the claim.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)RW sources that bash other candidates (cough bernie cough) are more than welcome!
Logical
(22,457 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)Why give that source hits here? This used to be a place that didn't allow bottom-feeding sources. I guess any port in a storm now, eh?
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)Try.
Facility Inspector
(615 posts)flock together.
Anybody got Penny Pritzker's thoughts on this too?
daleanime
(17,796 posts)that the anger is well justified.
LuvNewcastle
(16,856 posts)They suit each other.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,364 posts)They didn't last time.
PyaarRevolution
(814 posts)Betty Jones who was recently accidentally shot by police in the last month or two.