Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced the firing on Tuesday, just days after he held a press conference with then Police Supt. Garry McCarthy over the police shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.
The mayor said he and McCarthy began discussing the future of the department on Sunday, and on Tuesday morning, he asked for the superintendent’s resignation. First Deputy Supt. John Escalante will serve as acting superintendent while the Chicago Police Board conducts a national search for a permanent replacement for McCarthy.
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.
The high-profile shooting death of a black teenager by a white police officer sparked several days of protests across the city, including a Black Friday march that shut down several stores on the Magnificent Mile.
“The public trust in the leadership of the department has been shaken and eroded,” Emanuel said Tuesday at City Hall, as he announced the formation of a task force to review police accountability, oversight, and training.
While the rest if the nation celebrated America’s independence, Chicago residents were busy doing what they are slowly becoming known for – shooting each other. The holiday weekend left 60 people shot, 9 killed.
The first fatal shooting occurred around 2:30 a.m. on Friday, kicking the weekend off to a violent start. Corey Hudson, 34, was killed in a drive-by shooting. Hudson was fatally shot, while his friend was left wounded. There were also three police-involved shootings on July 4th alone, leaving one suspect dead.
While the soaring violence in Chicago is no new issue, the city has been working to actively combat and reduce gun violence in recent years – especially after one of its bloodiest years in 2012, when Chicago was the only city in the country to record over 500 homicides.
“We will keep building on our strategy, putting more officers on the street in summer months, proactively intervening in gang conflicts, partnering with community leaders,” Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said in a statement.
To bring down the murder rate, police have been dispatched by the hundreds to some of Chicago’s most dangerous neighborhoods. Although this strategy appeared to be working in 2013 when homicides fell to 415, Chicago still had one of the highest murder rates in the country.
The Chicago Tribune updated its tally of shootings in the Windy City to 1,129 so far for this year. But it’s still less than 2013, which saw over 2,000 shootings
The Blue Line train derailed at the end of the platform and barreled towards the entrance of the terminals shortly before 3am.
Passengers were taken to three hospitals in the area to be treated for minor injuries following the eight-car derailment. Most of the injured were being treated for neck and back pain, along with bumps and bruises.
At least 32 adults were injured after a train derailed at 2.50am on Monday at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois
The Blue Line train ploughed through the end of the platform and stopped just short of the terminal entrance. Police are now working to determine the cause.
A police officer stands near a Chicago Transit Authority train car that derailed at the O’Hare Airport station early on Monday leaving 32 people injured
Maintenance workers start to repair the damaged train following the derailment in the early hours of Monday at O’Hare Airport
Chicago Transit Authority workers direct travelers at the CTA’s O’Hare International Airport station to where they can board shuttle buses.
The Blue Line service to O’Hare Airport was suspended after Rosemont station. Passengers trying to reach O’Hare Airport from this direction were using shuttle buses.
Chicago Transit Authority investigators, fire fighters and police were reviewing security footage and interviewing the driver and other CTA workers to determine the cause of the accident around 2.50am.
It is unclear if the driver had a medical emergency but he appeared to be walking and talking after the collision and was able to answer questions, investigators said.
The National Transportation Safety Board has been notified.
The doctor traded prescription for Sex about 150 times with 16 different patients.
Joshua D. Baron, 40, pled guilty Friday in federal court to a charge of illegally distributing a prescription drug in exchange for sex in 2009. He was freed on his own recognizance as he awaits sentencing on June 30.
Baron faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a $1million fine. Due to his plea, however, he will likely get between 9 and 11 years, according to federal sentencing guidelines.
Baron, a former pediatric neurologist who lives in Oak Park about 10 minutes from downtown Chicago, was first licensed by the state in 2006. He treated patients until 2011 at several Chicago hospitals, including the prestigious Rush University Medical Center.
He also gave up his medical license and Drug Enforcement Agency registration in 2011.
Just what Chicago needs. More guns. That should slow the ever increasing crime rate *wink wink*. This, after a judge gave the green light for more gun shops to open their doors for business in the bullet ridden capital of the United states.
Thirteen people, including a 3-year-old boy who suffered a gunshot wound to the head, were shot at a Chicago park in the Back of the Yards neighborhood Thursday night, authorities said.
Ten adults and the 3-year-old were transported by Fire Department ambulances after the attack in the 1800 block of West 51st Street in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, said Fire Department Deputy District Chief James Mungovan at the scene. A 12th victim was believed to have driven himself to Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park, a source said, citing preliminary information.
Police said later a total of 13 people were shot, the boy, two teens, and 10 adults, with the boy the most seriously wounded. The boy suffered a gunshot wound to the head at an ear that exited through his mouth, and was in critical condition at Mount Sinai Hospital, police said.
The attack took place about 10:15 p.m. and fire officials called an Emergency Medical Services Plan II, sending at least 10 ambulances to the scene.
Chicago police were making no information about what happened public, except to say that the shooting appeared to be gang-related. The shootings took place on a basketball court on the 51st Street side of Cornell Square Park near Wood Street.
A witness at the scene said three police officers carried the child to an ambulance.
“I didn’t hear no sounds,” from the child, he said.
Family members identified the boy as Deonta’ Howard, whose uncle was shot to death on Labor Day, Sept. 2.
Some people may think a five-year old is too young for sex education.
Administrators with Chicago Public schools do not.
New to the curriculum this year, mandatory sexual and health education for kindergarten classes.
CBS 2’s Dorothy Tucker took at look at the lesson the little ones will be learning.
Like every other kindergartener, Angelina Yang is learning reading, writing, arithmetic–and now sexual health education.
“I want to know what kind of education she is receiving before she gets that education,” said Angelia’s mom, Stella. ‘As a parent, I have a right to know.”
CPS insists the curriculum will use language children understand and focus on topics like bullying, correct names for external body parts and the difference between appropriate and inappropriate touching.
“As you identify body parts, you talk about should you be touched here or not.,” said Stephanie Whyte, the CPS Chief Health Officer. “And if someone touches you, and it’s uncomfortable, you should tell a trusted adult.”
“I’m OK with it,” said parent Ayesha Ahmad. “I’d like to believe it’s not necessary, but I think our culture dictates you can’t start early enough.”
Students will also take a look at the different family structures that exist in today’s society.
Ok, this is one of those MUST-SEE videos! I’ve watched it too many times already…
Please watch as two robbers try to burglarize Quizhpe’s Gifts and Sports in Logan Square in Chicago.
This is an amazing video of a store owner and his brother who were fed up and fought back with a bat and chairs …and it’s hilarious!
I’m also happy to report that even after receiving a shot to the leg, Luis Quizhpe (store owner) survived the attack and possibly taught those two robbers a lesson they won’t soon forget.
The parents of Hadiya Pendleton, the 15-year-old girl gunned down just a week after she sang at the President’s inauguration, will be attending the State of the Union Address as guests of the President and First Lady.
Michelle Obama, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Education Secretary Arne Duncan attended Hadiya’s funeral service this past Saturday to pay their respects to Cleopatra and Nathaniel Pendleton Sr. and console the family amisdt reports out of Chicago of January being its bloodiest month in more than a decade due to gun violence. The President is expected to be re-emphasizing his position on gun control during his address to the country this evening.
Is it just me or is anyone else getting the feeling that there’s more to the Christopher Dorner case than meets the eye?
It was was reported that the ex-marine went cra-cra after being fired in ’08 for misconduct by the LAPD (there’s an oxymoron in there somewhere), accused of falsely claiming his training officer kicked a mentally ill suspect in the course of an arrest.
In 2008? He’s just getting fired up about it 5 years later?
He then goes berserk and kills a cop and two civilians, vows to kill other cops and their families and then goes on the lamb for which he disappears off the face of the earth?? He now has a million dollar reward on his head and a War Drone searching for his ass.
And last Friday, the LAPD announced it would reopen its investigation of Dorner’s firing and his claims…the story’s not all here pilgrims…
Seems like there’s some historical inaccuracies in the movie “Lincoln“ by Steven Spielberg. Political representatives from the state of Connecticut contend that their’s was wrongly characterized in the movie as having three of its four legislative forefathers voting against the 13th Amendment, when in fact the delegation voted overwhelmingly in favor of passing the bill that technically ended slavery in all its forms in the United States of America.
Rep. Joe Courtney, a Democrat from Connecticut, wrote a scathing letter to Spielberg earlier this week emphasizing that although he is aware of the use of artistic license in the movie business, he was still demanding that the film be corrected before “Lincoln” comes out on DVD.
Guess the difference between license and lying was lost on the movie’s screenwriter.
And on a final good note: Happy Valentine’s Day to my favorite couple, Veronica & Marcus. Their’s is a story of Love lost and found, that never fails to give me hope, warm my heart and lighten my Spirit, stuff of which we all can use more of…♥
She performed in a marching band for President Obama’s second inaugural, but the mean streets of Chicago ended up taking the life of 15 year old Hadiya Pendleton.
A 15-year-old girl who performed at President Obama’s inauguration last week was shot dead Tuesday while hanging out with friends in bullet-scarred Chicago.
Hadiya Pendleton was standing under a canopy in Vivian Gordon Harsh Park when a gunman ran down an alley, opened fire at the group and fled in a white car, police said.
Pendleton was shot in the back but managed to run about a block before she collapsed, officer Laura Kubiak said. She died at the hospital.
A 16-year-old boy was wounded in the 2:20 p.m. incident. Police said Pendleton, who had no criminal record, was probably not the intended target.
For almost two years, Glenn Beck reigned as the top crazy of the Republican Conservative nutty right-wing movement. He was their leader, their savior, their king. But even the most ardent supporter of Glenn Beck watched as his Titanic-like iceberg slowly approached, and they abandoned ship before the inevitable.
But Beck’s people needed a leader, and Donald Trump came along at just the right moment to fill the void. Feeling he’s still relevant, and possibly envious seeing another occupy his beloved throne, Glenn Beck launched his attack. “Donald Trump took investment money from George Soros to build the Trump Tower in Chicago” he yelled from the highest mountaintop, believing that associating Trump with Soros – the liberal boogie-man Glenn Beck created as the single most despised man in America – would result in Trump’s downfall. It didn’t.
Next, Beck and his allies began attacking what made Trump so popular amongst the conservatives in the first place – The Birther issue.
As we reported here at EzKool, the law in Hawaii prohibits any vital record from being transferred, or even photocopied. What Hawaii allows is a Certificate of Live Birth, which the President released almost 4 years ago.
Beck and his crew continued their vicious attack;
“For him to release his own birth certificate, you would have to be advocating for him to be above the law. You cannot. They can’t release it. Even to the president. He can examine it himself there. Would you believe him if he examined it and said it looked real? Would ya? I’d love to see that.”
This is not the first time Beck has attacked The Donald. In a televised interview with Bill O’Reilly, Beck said;
‘There is something reasonable to, you know, a reasonable conversation if you don’t believe that he has a birth certificate.
‘You can say, “I don’t believe he has a birth certificate.” But then he goes into “I do not believe he has a birth certificate” and then he releases one that’s worse than Obama’s.
‘And then he comes back and he says on your program, “He might be a Muslim too.” I’m like, come on!’
Come on indeed. Now Beck knows what the rest of sane America was saying when he went on his nightly rampage of lies and mis-information. Anyone who held a difference -of- opinion to that of The Beckster were ridiculed, laughed at, and tied to all manner of conspiracies to destroy America.
Beck is angry! His message was taken… no, stolen from under him. And he’s not going down without a fight!
Crazy is crazy, no matter where it comes from. It is, and will always be, crazy! But if you ask some conservative Republicans, their crazy is their crazy, and they want the world to know it.
With that said, using someone’s crazy without attributing it to them, is in itself, crazy… and plagiarism. And according to these conservatives, Glenn Beck has been tried and is found guilty of this crime. The Daily Caller elaborates;
By any standard, Beck seems unusually reliant on the work of others, and unusually reluctant to credit it. In an interview with TheDC, Roger L. Simon, CEO of Pajamas Media, suggested that Beck has committed the journalistic equivalent of a notorious crime. “It is not a question of just doing it right the majority of the time. It is a question of doing it right always,” Simon said. “Doris Kearns Goodwin is forever a fraud in my estimation because she has been caught plagiarizing once. If you rob a bank once, you still robbed a bank.”
A remarkably large number of conservative writers say they feel robbed. During the March 18 airing of his television program, for example, Beck ran a portion of video created by a Chicago-based blogger who calls himself Rebel Pundit. The blogger, who does not publicly reveal his name, says he was initially pleased to see Beck running his video, which featured left-wing protesters demanding amnesty for illegal immigrants. He was soon shocked, however, to see that Beck’s staff had obscured the watermark logo of his website, RebelPundit.com, from the tape.
“I put my website name on there for a reason – to bring people from the movement to my website so they can see the other stuff that I’ve done,” the man behind Rebel Pundit told TheDC. “You’ve got pretty much the biggest guy in the movement take your stuff and actually have his editors spend the time to scrub my name off of it.”
It seems that when it rains, it really pours. Who would have thought a few short months ago, that conservatives would turn on the anointed one this way? They have accused him of going cuckoo on air and bringing down the Republican party in the process to the point where even Fox so-called News has turned their backs on him. Now this?
Seems Glenn Beck “has fallen, and he can’t get up!” (< == taken from a Medical Alert commercial. Not plagiarism on my part! LOL!)
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