In reaction to constituent pressure, the City Council’s black caucus has sought Police Supt. Garry McCarthy’s head on a plate as the fall guy for all the gang-on-gang shootings in the black communities. That lame effort to save face crumbled under its own weight. The McDonald dash-cam video release now prompts aldermen Roderick Sawyer and Howard Brookins to bemoan the 400-day delay by Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez to prosecute the cop who shot him, and the possibility of street unrest in response to the video. Yet they were complicit in approving the $5 million pre-emptive settlement with the McDonald family back on April 13, when no lawsuit had been filed or...
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