RSN: Chicago Releases Another Video of a Police Officer Killing an Unarmed Teenager

Chicago Releases Another Video of a Police Officer Killing an Unarmed Teenager 
Aviva Shen, ThinkProgress 
Shen writes: "The city of Chicago released a video of another police officer killing an unarmed black teenager three years ago, after giving up a lengthy legal battle to keep it from the public eye. This time, the teenager's name was not Laquan McDonald but Cedrick Chatman." 
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he city of Chicago released a video of another police officer killing an unarmed black teenager three years ago, after giving up a lengthy legal battle to keep it from the public eye.

This time, the teenager’s name was not Laquan McDonald but Cedrick Chatman.

The grainy video shows the 17-year-old Chatman fleeing the police before he is shot by Officer Kevin Fry. It’s hard to tell what happened next, but according to Chatman’s family’s attorney, Cedrick falls to the ground, is flipped onto his stomach, and is handcuffed. Fry presses his boot into Chatman’s back. The teenager died a few hours later.

Police were pursuing Chatman after he and his friends stole a car. The officers said they thought he had a gun. He was armed only with a black iPhone box. Fry claimed in his deposition that he feared for his partner’s life, as well as “any pedestrians in the area.” But U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman noted that Toth is just a few feet away from Chatman and easily could have been shot.

“[Toth was] on the heels of Chatman,” Gettleman said. “This is what bothers me. You might say he was in the line of fire.”

The city suddenly reversed its yearlong battle to suppress the video on Wednesday. As they did when fighting to bury video of Laquan McDonald’s death, members of Emanuel’s administration argued the video would inflame the public and jeopardize a fair trial in the Chatman family’s wrongful death lawsuit.

Prosecutors had also initially charged Chatman’s friends with first-degree murder, arguing that despite being nowhere near the shooting, they “set in motion a chain of events that caused the death of Cedrick Chatman.”

“I’m very disturbed by the way this happened,” Judge Gettleman said upon releasing the video. “I went to a lot of trouble to decide this issue, and then I get this motion last night saying that this is the Age of Enlightenment with the city and we’re going to be transparent. I think it’s irresponsible.”

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez are facing massive blowback from their handling of the police shooting of Laquan McDonald. The release of that video led to nationwide protests and the ousting of top police officials, including Superintendent Garry McCarthy. Officer Jason Van Dyke is also now facing murder charges.

It’s not likely the same will happen to Fry. He was cleared by the Independent Police Review Authority (IPRA). But as Buzzfeed points out, the former IPRA investigator on Chatman’s shooting charges in a federal lawsuit that he was fired for refusing to change his findings in Chatman’s case and several others to “more favorably reflect” upon the officers’ conduct.

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RSN: Bernie Sanders | Now a Clinton Super PAC Is Attacking Us, For the First Time Since 1938, a January Hurricane Has Formed in the Atlantic

ALL AMERICANS DESERVE THE SAME HEALTH CARE! 

PLEASE! Let's fight for it! 

Doctors are opting out of FOR PROFIT PLANS forcing their patients to switch doctors. 
Patients are being forced to make important HEALTH CARE DECISIONS based on which doctor or hospital accepts which insurance plan. 

This is NOT acceptable!

The US is spending more to WAGE ENDLESS WARS than it would cost to INSURE ALL AMERICANS! 

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Bernie Sanders | Now a Clinton Super PAC Is Attacking Us 

Bernie Sanders, Reader Supported News 
Sanders writes: "Frankly, I am a bit surprised that with less than three weeks to go before the Iowa caucuses, the Clinton campaign is attacking our belief that health care must be recognized as a right, not a privilege, for every man, woman and child in our country." 
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rothers and Sisters,

Here is what I believe: the greed of the pharmaceutical and health care industries in this country is killing Americans. It is a national disgrace that, despite great gains made under the Affordable Care Act, 29 million of our neighbors are still without care.

That is why I am, frankly, a bit surprised that with less than three weeks to go before the Iowa caucuses, the Clinton campaign is attacking our belief that health care must be recognized as a right, not a privilege, for every man, woman and child in our country. We cannot wait to realize that goal, and the best way to get there is a Medicare-for-all, single-payer system.

Yesterday, one of Hillary Clinton's several super PACs took aim at us, saying our plan would "require tax increases on working families."

It would be a terrible setback for our shared values and for our movement to reform a corrupt political system if we lost because a super PAC scared voters into thinking our plan would take away people's coverage or cost them more money. Help make sure that doesn't happen.

Under my plan, we will lower the cost of health care for the typical family by nearly $5,000 a year. It is unfair to say simply how much more a program will cost without letting people know we are doing away with the cost of private insurance and that the middle class will be paying substantially less for health care under a single-payer system than Hillary Clinton's program.

Attacking the cost of the plan without acknowledging the bottom-line savings is the way Republicans have attacked this idea for decades.

Taking that approach in a Democratic primary undermines the hard work of so many who have fought to guarantee health care as a right in this country, and it hurts our prospects for achieving that goal in the near future.

Real change comes about when large numbers of ordinary Americans speak, vote and get involved in the democratic process. If we stand together, we win. If we are divided, the big-money interests win. And we have a real shot to deliver a big victory in the fight for health care as a right for all Americans in this campaign.

In Solidarity,

Bernie

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Tensions Boil Over at Republican Debate 
Karen Tumulty and Philip Rucker, The Washington Post 
Tumulty and Rucker write: "The mutually beneficial campaign detente between Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz came to an end on the debate stage here Thursday." 
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Chicago Releases Another Video of a Police Officer Killing an Unarmed Teenager 
Aviva Shen, ThinkProgress 
Shen writes: "The city of Chicago released a video of another police officer killing an unarmed black teenager three years ago, after giving up a lengthy legal battle to keep it from the public eye. This time, the teenager's name was not Laquan McDonald but Cedrick Chatman." 
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Goldman Sachs Will Pay $5 Billion to Settle Financial-Crisis Claims 
Jim Zarroli, NPR 
Zarroli writes: "Goldman Sachs will pay about $5 billion to resolve state and federal investigations into its handling of mortgage-backed securities in the years leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, the bank said today." 
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Planned Parenthood Will Sue Group Behind Videos 
Charlotte Alter, TIME 
Alter writes: "Planned Parenthood said Thursday that it will sue the conservative anti-abortion group behind secretly taped videos that appeared to show abortion providers selling fetal tissue, which ignited a firestorm over the women's-health organization before the videos were widely criticized as having been deceptively edited." 
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UN Chief Takes Veiled Swipe at US and Saudi Arabia Over Airstrikes on Medical Facilities 
Colum Lynch, Foreign Policy 
Lynch writes: "The U.N. secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, took a veiled swipe Thursday at U.S. and Saudi air operations in Afghanistan and Yemen, denouncing 'so-called surgical strikes' that hit medical facilities last year as 'assaults on our common humanity.'" 
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For the First Time Since 1938, a January Hurricane Has Formed in the Atlantic 
Eyder Peralta, NPR 
Peralta writes: "Since record-keeping began in 1851, only one other hurricane is known to have formed in January. That was an unnamed storm in 1938." 
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