The Chicago Teachers Union wants Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez to resign from their post. This is in relation to handling the police shooting case of an African-American boy.
According to In These Times, Chicago Teachers Union's House of Delegates voted Wednesday night to demand the resignations of Mayor Rahm Emanuel and State's Attorney Anita Alvarez in the middle of the Laquan McDonald scandal. The city has been in riot for two months ever since the tapes of the 2014 shooting were made public. The union, which has 27,000 members, said on Thursday that the delay of the government institutions in addressing the Laquan McDonald's killing and other issues of extreme, unjustified, unfounded, and lethal police force in the City of Chicago should be the reason for the resignation of the two. The union has never made a move like this so this has made an impact for the case.
USA Today reported that Alvarez only charged police officer Jason Van Dyke hours before the tapes were released. In November, the tapes showed that the white police officer shot McDonald 16 times even though it wasn't armed like what the previous statements of the Chicago Police Department said. The footages were from CPD squad car dash cameras that they hid for over a year. It was October 2014 when the killing happened and only after 400 days the footages was brought to court because of an order.
This uproar has made many city officials resign from their posts, including Chicago police superintendent Garry McCarthy. The mayor and Alvarez said that they have no intention of leaving their jobs. The mayor, Rahm Emanuel has made many questionable decisions that were questioned by the citizens of Chicago. He closed down 50 public schools in Black and Latino communities despite disapproval from the citizens and CTU, stated Foxs32Chicago.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has also done many cover-ups for the police department and abused his power. He also closed many other public services such as hospitals that resulted in the infliction of educational, psychological, and physical harm to Chicago's public schools and working-class neighbourhoods.
