McCarthy has been fired as Chicago Police Superintendent.
CHICAGO (CBS) — Saying public confidence in the Police Department “has been shaken and eroded” in the wake of the Laquan McDonald controversy, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Tuesday that Police Supt. Garry McCarthy is out as the city’s top cop.
Running that through the universal translator: The police chief had to go to help satisfy “mob rule” in Chicago. Furthermore, the police union had no confidence in McCarthy’s leadership (or lack thereof), so it’s a win-win for Rahm.
As for the video that the mainstream media loves to report on (as it drives their readership/viewership and associated ad revenue), when viewed dispassionately, may or may not have been a justifiable use of deadly force by a police officer on a knife-wielding, PCP-addled teenager that had already displayed violence towards police moments before.
McCarthy’s ouster comes a week after Police Officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with first-degree murder in the October 2014 shooting death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. Hours after Van Dyke was charged, Emanuel and McCarthy released police dashboard camera video of Van Dyke shooting McDonald 16 times.
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