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On August 21 2016 23:42 SpiritoftheTunA wrote:

thats not disconcerting?

oh well idk GE's overrated anyway

CHICAGO — Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson is moving to fire seven officers accused of lying about the shooting of Laquan McDonald and its aftermath.

"The officers have been relieved of their police powers prior to the determination of the Police Board," Police Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.

As part of process, Johnson will submit his recommendations to the Chicago Police Board, which will ultimately decide whether to fire the officers.

Officers in the Police Department were notified via email that Johnson will recommend the firing of seven members of the force involved in the October 2014 shooting, a source said.

Thursday's email to officers came after Joe Ferguson, the city's inspector general, sent a report to Johnson recommending the firing of 10 police officers involved with the case.

"The department and its outside counsel have carefully reviewed the reports and supporting documents, videos, and other evidence and will accept" the recommendations to fire seven of the officers, Guglielmi said.

The firings would be based on Rule 14, a section of the Police Department's disciplinary code that concerns an officer "making a false statement, written or oral."

Shortly after the Police Department received Ferguson's report, Deputy Chief David McNaughton, who signed off on a police report justifying McDonald's shooting by officer Jason Van Dyke in October 2014, announced his retirement.

A lieutenant involved in the case, Anthony Wojcik, retired in May.

The Police Department disagreed that a 10th officer should be fired and "feels that there is insufficient evidence to prove those respective allegations," Guglielmi said.

Earlier this week, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said any changes within the Police Department were in Johnson's hands.

"I appreciate Supt. Johnson's thoughtful review of the Inspector General's report, and I fully support his decisions," Emanuel said in a statement Thursday." As the city takes these important steps to hold individuals accountable, we must also recommit ourselves to partnering together to rebuild trust between our police department and our residents."

On August 21 2016 21:19 zeo wrote:

LA Times http://graphics.latimes.com/usc-presidential-poll-dashboard/

edit: It's followed the general trend throughout the election cycle so expect more. Interesting to note the boost he got in black votes (and latino)

By the way guys its been 260 days since Clintons last press conference.

On August 21 2016 21:19 zeo wrote:

LA Times http://graphics.latimes.com/usc-presidential-poll-dashboard/

edit: It's followed the general trend throughout the election cycle so expect more. Interesting to note the boost he got in black votes (and latino)

By the way guys its been 260 days since Clintons last press conference.

Clinton doesn't want the press conference format during her campaign

On August 22 2016 02:39 Biff The Understudy wrote:

Please be even a bit more obnoxious and post every day how many days it has been. We all care.

Clinton doesn't want the press conference format during her campaign. Can regret it, can think it's bad, but we got it.

So give a break, thanks.

And 531 gives Trump 15% chances to win, based on a gazillion polls, so don't give yourself false hopes.

On August 22 2016 02:50 GGTeMpLaR wrote:


Why are you getting so defensive?

On August 21 2016 18:30 puerk wrote:
just to clarify about the reuninfication: gorbachov is not a country.

On August 22 2016 03:40 oBlade wrote:

Gorbachev is not a country. What a revelation. Only our parents' generation vividly remembers the day Ze Great Kimunikvator stood up to the president of the traditionally hard-line US and said "Komrade Reagans, teer down zis voll." Reunification didn't just happen by accident, it took diplomacy on the part of the US to make it happen both with the USSR, Poland that didn't want to get "breathing room"ed again, and those in NATO that were actually apprehensive about supporting a sovereign Germany.

On August 22 2016 02:53 KwarK wrote:

It's Zeo, putting him down isn't really a case of "The lady doth protest too much, methinks", it's more a case of "nobody is really in the mood to hear what paid Kremlin shills are saying today, fuck off".

Zeo always picks the dumbest lines of attack, bases his claims on assumptions that nobody else accepts as real and cherry picks evidence, in this case one poll, to the exclusion of all contrary evidence.

Well, the real question here is, whether Secretary Clinton has been taking questions from reporters, which she absolutely has. We went and counted and she has been in more than 300 interviews with reporters this year alone, she’s been on your show, and we’re going to continue to do that. There are lot of different formats which she can engage in reporters, whether it’s one on one interviews, whether it’s talking with her traveling press reporters, or a press conference. We’re going to look at all of those as we move forward. But I don’t think it’s fair to say that someone is shying away from tough questions when they have taken over 300 interviews from reporters, we tried to have the interns look how many questions she took, which is much bigger number, and we haven’t even finished tallying that.

On August 21 2016 21:19 zeo wrote:

LA Times http://graphics.latimes.com/usc-presidential-poll-dashboard/

edit: It's followed the general trend throughout the election cycle so expect more. Interesting to note the boost he got in black votes (and latino)

By the way guys its been 260 days since Clintons last press conference.

On August 22 2016 04:06 Nevuk wrote:
Mook's (HRC campaign manager) response to the press conference issue was pretty lame, but it gives an idea of the Clinton campaign's thought process

http://www.mediaite.com/online/hillary-clinton-campaign-manager-brags-she-has-done-more-than-300-interviews-in-2016/

On August 22 2016 04:26 JinDesu wrote:


Doesn't matter. The Media (H)achine works for Shillary, and it would only take a proper press conference where true reporters from Breitbart and the Alex Jones Show can grill her to expose her.

On August 22 2016 04:49 KwarK wrote:

Deliberately leaving our Infowars I see. How long have you been in the pocket of Big Fluoride?

On August 22 2016 04:52 oBlade wrote:

Fluoride was a false flag to get people to be dismissive of the real treachery, estrogen in the water.

On August 22 2016 03:40 oBlade wrote:

Gorbachev is not a country. What a revelation. Only our parents' generation vividly remembers the day Ze Great Kimunikvator stood up to the president of the traditionally hard-line US and said "Komrade Reagans, teer down zis voll." Reunification didn't just happen by accident, it took diplomacy on the part of the US to make it happen both with the USSR, Poland that didn't want to get "breathing room"ed again, and those in NATO that were actually apprehensive about supporting a sovereign Germany.