Illinois sheriff releases videos showing force against inmates

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

Illinois sheriff releases videos showing force against inmates

By Mark Weinraub
April 15, 2016

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The sheriff who runs the jail system in Chicago on Friday released videos showing cases of excessive force against inmates.

"The public has a right to know when officers abuse the public trust as well as the ramifications of that abuse," Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart said in a statement. "Transparency is critical to ensuring law enforcement accountability."

The video release comes as the third-biggest U.S. city's police department faces a federal investigation and racism accusations over the death of black teenager Laquan McDonald. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel fired his police commissioner in 2015 after protests following the release of a video showing a Chicago police officer shooting McDonald 16 times.

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The videos were posted at http://www.cookcountysheriff.org/meritboard_decisions.html

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/illinois-sheriff-releases-videos-showing-force-against-inmates-214602639.html?nhp=1

[Chakab]

1. The White House's non-response to this madness in Chicago is disgusting. If law enforcement

officials at every level were this corrupt and abusive in any other major city, the Justice Department would have started to investigate years earlier than it did in Chicago. If the mayor of such a city were anybody other than the former WH chief of staff, there would have been loud demands from others within the party for his resignation.

[Person 2713]

2. Good on Dart