Judge wants Chicago mayor to testify on code of silence
CHICAGO (AP) — Attorneys for the city of Chicago have told a federal judge they are prepared to admit to a jury that a code of silence exists within the police department in an attempt to keep Mayor Rahm Emanuel off the witness stand.
Emanuel himself brought up the code of silence problem in a speech in December to the City Council in the midst of protests and calls for his resignation over the death of Laquan McDonald, the black teenager who was killed by a white officer in a shooting caught on police dashcam video.
The lawsuit was brought by two officers who say the department retaliated against them for cooperating with the FBI in an investigation into a narcotics team that was demanding protection money from drug dealers.