Meribah Knight
By Meribah Knight
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News How A Top Jewish Cop in Chicago Wound Up Managing Its Explosive Police Scandal
Commander Marc Buslik was greeted with blank stares as he stood before a group of rank-and-file Chicago police officers, hoping to explain why the federal government was investigating them for unconstitutional policing. “In October of 2014,” he noted bluntly, “Officer Van Dyke decided to pump 16 bullets into Lacquan McDonald.” His shoulders slumped and his…
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News In Chicago, Two Activist Davids Puncture Goliath’s Blue Shield
CHICAGO — It all started with a phone call. In early November 2014, Craig Futterman, a civil rights attorney and law professor at the University of Chicago Law School, heard his phone ring. The caller, a source within Chicago law enforcement, told Futterman about the existence of a dash-cam video showing a black teenager being…
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News Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago Is Burning — Can He Put Out the Flames?
At a recent meeting with leaders of Chicago’s faith community, Chicago’s first Jewish mayor, Rahm Emanuel, admitted that mistakes were made in how city government handled the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. And then, the mayor stopped talking and listened. “My stock in the mayor went up” as a result, said Rabbi Capers Funnye…
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