37213_chicago-ipra SCRIPT Sequence of police dash cam footage leading up to shooting of Laquan McDonald on Oct. 20, 2014 MAYOR RAHM EMANUEL (speech to city council) — The problem is sometimes referred to as the Thin Blue Line. The problem is other times referred to as the code of silence. Title: Breaking the Code of Silence LORENZO DAVIS — On the Laquan McDonald case, the officers in the car with the dash cam video that recorded the incident, one of them said that, I looked down, it was to shift the gear or something, so I did not see it. And then her partner, I think, said she didn’t see it. // The officer who was supposed to be following Laquan McDonald on foot, like, had been behind him or close to it, and said he did not see it. That’s what you say when you don’t want to be a witness against your partner, or you don’t want to lie. Protest nat sound up LONG BEFORE THE RELEASE OF VIDEO SHOWING 17 YEAR OLD LAQUAN MCDONALD SHOT 16 TIMES BY A POLICE OFFICER, THE CITY OF CHICAGO WAS PLAGUED BY ALLEGATIONS OF RACISM AND USE OF EXCESSIVE FORCE. B-roll Chicago flag, IPRA building IN 2007, TO HELP BUILD PUBLIC TRUST, THE CITY CREATED THE INDEPENDENT POLICE REVIEW AUTHORITY, OR IPRA, TO BETTER DISCIPLINE OFFICERS INVOLVED IN EXCESSIVE FORCE CASES. Davis describes police shooting of Flint Farmer in 2011 in West Englewood DAVIS — You see three flashes while he’s firing, three times into Mr. Farmer’s back. // Later said that he thought perhaps the cell phone was a gun. AFTER 23 YEARS AS A CHICAGO POLICE OFFICER, LORENZO DAVIS WORKED AS AN IPRA SUPERVISOR, INVESTIGATING POLICE SHOOTINGS. “Could he have been in reasonable fear of his life?” AND “Carjacking Reasonable to assume offender has a weapon“. AND YET IPRA HAS VERY RARELY FAULTED OFFICERS INVOLVED IN SHOOTINGS, EVEN WHEN THE PERSON SHOT WAS UNARMED AND RUNNING AWAY. DAVIS — From 2007 till now there have been over 400 police filed shootings. // It does not stop. // Only recently—have two been found to be not justified. And both of those were off-duty shootings. Davis reenacting shooting of Cedrick Chatman; CU Detail shots his findings on Officer Stephen Fry DAVIS WAS FIRED FROM IPRA EARLIER THIS YEAR AFTER RECOMMENDING THAT THE OFFICER WHO SHOT CEDRICK CHATMAN IN 2011 BE FIRED FOR IMPROPER USE OF DEADLY FORCE. DAVIS’ SUPERVISOR POSTED HAND-WRITTEN NOTES CHALLENGING HIS FINDINGS: DAVIS — I was the only one who refused to change my findings. Others gave into the pressure. They did not want to be fired. It’s like, you know, when I was fired, I was made an example out of to the other supervisors. Detail shots of Davis’ findings in the Chatman case where his supervisor left notes questioning his work DAVIS WAS GIVEN A PERFORMANCE REVIEW JUST BEFORE HE WAS FIRED, STATING THAT HE REFUSED TO CHANGE HIS FINDINGS WHEN HIS SUPERIORS FELT POLICE SHOOTINGS WERE JUSTIFIED. DAVIS — There is a culture there where the investigators and supervisors, for the most part feel that police officers always tell the truth, and that quite often that the complaintiffs embellish or do not tell the truth. DAVIS IS NOW SUING THE CITY OF CHICAGO FOR WRONGFUL TERMINATION. U.S. Attorney General’s announces DOJ investigation into possible pattern and practice violations by CPD, Dec. 7 LORETTA LYNCH — The Department of Justice has opened an investigation into whether the Chicago Police Department.... WHEN THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCED IT WOULD LOOK INTO POSSIBLE CIVIL RIGHTS ABUSES IN THE SHOOTING OF LAQUAN MCDONALD... Press following former head of IPRA, Scott Ando, out of Cook County courthouse SCOTT ANDO — I don’t know when I will have a comment.... ...MAYOR RAHM EMANUEL PROMPTLY FIRED IPRA’S CHIEF ADMINISTRATOR, SCOTT ANDO. DAVIS — The last chief administrator, Scott Ando // He did not want you to find any police officer had lied, because when you do that, you ruin the police officer’s career and the police officer will never be believed in court. // So, shooting cases that we sent to him he decided that he wanted the findings changed if they were not justified. Scott Ando in front of the courthouse, walking away from press REPORTER (off-cam) — Are you guilty of protecting police officers from allegations of misconduct at IPRA? ANDO — Absolutely not. I did my job fairly and objectively at all times. Dec. 7 presser where mayor introduces new head of IPRA RAHM EMANUEL — With that I would like to introduce Sharon Fairley... THE NEW HEAD OF IPRA IS A FOMRER FEDERAL PROSECUTOR SHARON FAIRLEY — I promise you, I bring no agenda other than the pursuit of integrity and transparency to the work that IPRA does. This is what our Chicago police brethren deserve and what Chicago citizens demand. DAVIS — Now you have a new chief administrator. // She referred to police officers as her brethren. And that term bothered me in that...you’re about to head an agency of civilians, not police officers. B-roll of protests in Chicago streets, “The whole damn system is guilty as hell!” DAVIS — And, you know, you should feel some camaraderie with the citizens of Chicago, not with police officers. ————— end it ——————-