Given Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez’s involvement in the cover-up of the Laquan McDonald murder and the FBI’s involvement in the framing of the Austin Seven, what is to make us believe that this is nothing more than another cover-up? http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-states-atty-alvarez-asks-fbi-to-join-investigation-of-fatal-police-shooting-of-2-20151231-story.html

Judging from past history, promises of reform of the CPD by the Mayor’s office have no credibility. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/31/us/mayor-rahm-emanuel-announces-measures-to-curb-use-of-deadly-force-by-chicago-police.html

As we saw in Cleveland yesterday, the judicial system in the U.S. is racist. Will it be any different this time, even if the Justice Department steps in? http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/30/us/laquan-mcdonald-shooting-chicago.html

The prosecutor worked for months to exonerate the police officers. The Cleveland police once again get away with a racist murder. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/29/us/tamir-rice-police-shootiing-cleveland.html

As part of its dominant criminal culture, the Chicago Police Department routinely overlooks brutality and murder. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/19/us/few-complaints-against-chicago-police-result-in-discipline-data-shows.html

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Quentin Tarantino refused to be intimidated by police threats against his upcoming movie, “The Hateful Eight,” and reaffirmed his criticism of police organizations. http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/34269-focus-tarantino-i-utterly-reject-argument-that-only-some-cops-are-bad

As an internationalized and militarized institution, the police are not trained to help those with mental issues; instead, in the U.S., they kill them. “Over a five-year period ending in 2014, officers here fatally shot 70 people, most of them black. That was the most among the nation’s 10 largest cities during the same period, according to the Better Government Association, a nonprofit watchdog group.” http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/27/us/chicago-police-fatally-shoot-2-raising-new-questions-for-a-force-under-scrutiny.html

The prosecutors handling of the Tamir Rice case in Cleveland should be a red flag for the Laquan McDonald case in Chicago, or any case, nationwide, where the police are on trial before a court biased in their favor. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/24/us/tamir-rices-family-and-prosecutor-quarrel-over-release-of-evidence.html