Amy Goodman
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Rekia Boyd's Killer Resigns as Activists Call for End to "Reign of Terror" by Chicago Police
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12:19Now PlayingAs Democracy Now! broadcasts from Chicago, Illinois, we look at major developments in several highprofile cases of police shootings of unarmed AfricanAmerican men and women, and how the independent media has played a key role in exposing police misconduct. On Tuesday, Dante Servin resigned from the Chicago Police Department just days before hearings were set to begin into whether he should be fired for shooting Rekia Boyd while he was off duty and she stood with a group of friends near his house. This comes as Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced this week that he plans to disband the city’s controversial police oversight agency that has been criticized for sluggish investigations that rarely resulted in disciplinary action. Mayor Emanuel is also facing calls to resign over a possible coverup of the police killing of Laquan McDonald, who was shot 16 times in 2014. We are joined by Jamie Kalven, founder of the Invisible Institute and a freelance journalist who uncovered the autopsy report showing Laquan McDonald was shot 16 times and who first reported on the existence of the video of the shooting. In recent months, he has won a George Polk Award, an Izzy and a Ridenhour Courage Prize for his reporting on Chicago police misconduct. We also speak with Page May, a cofounder and organizer with Assata’s Daughters. She was also a member of the We Charge Genocide delegation to the U.N. Committee Against Torture.
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