You go, Hillary!

Hillary Clinton has called for a federal investigation into the death of Laquan McDonald, a black teenager killed by a white Chicago police officer, putting her at odds with Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a former aide to Bill Clinton who is embroiled in controversy over the handling of the 17-year-old’s death.

I'd like to see her take on the little rahmster monster.

Does he think he is the only one left to run the City of Chicago?

On Wednesday, ...Mr. Emanuel was asked ... whether he thought he would have lost a re-election bid in April if the video had been seen by the public [back then/pre-Democratic primary election]"

“You’re asking me a hypothetical,” Mr. Emanuel said. “I’ll leave that to you. I know what my job is to do, and I’ll handle that job.”

"I’ll leave that to you."
Does anyone remember when Gary Hart allegedly kind of dared the press into investigating the rumors of his marital infidelities? I think it was said they might have left him alone to his monkey business, but for his daring them and getting their pride up...

but then again, years later, I read somewhere that Hart denied the story, as told that way, was true. (?)

Even if myth,
I do think people eventually get tired of having their chains yanked, and maybe sometimes they call a bluff.* Here's hoping that happens here, and there is some movement afoot to groom a successor to Rahm.

He's no Daley, afterall,
and isn't the "Machine"
gone bust? Change Starts Now.

He's not the only one who can "run" that city...
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* I hope the independent press does not ease up on:

•  figuring out what happened to other -- perhaps more visually depictive -- video allegedly taken by a franchise restaurant near the death scene.  
• Where is all the audio of radio talk, or sounds inside the police vehicle(s)?  
• I hope the press stops taking for granted that the mayor refused to watch the video even when the payout was politically approved, because he "thought it wasn't fair that he be allowed to view it when the public could not."  Um-hm.  Man of the people, just one of us, waiting for justice to happen.

The cop freaked out, that's the truth of it there.
But the cover up?  The convenient timing of the delayed/almost disappeared dash=cam release(s), the payoff, and the unwillingness to come clean about the truth to the taxpaying public without a court order?

You have to eliminate that if you want a city to break the shackles of its past and grow...








I think the Hillary campaign would gain a lot of "street cred" , aka trust, if her people kept on this to see that the mayor of the City of Chicago is called to justice in the role he played in trying to suppress the truth being seen.

What a wonderful time too, to start building a political Democratic base while the City contemplates transitioning to another leader in the coming future.  When does his ill-begotten term end?  (No need for a costly recall,  Wisconsinites can tell you.  They'll be gone when voters catch on, based on performance, soon enough...)