Rahm Emanuel faces wrath of Chicago's black community over police violence

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Rahm Emanuel faces wrath of Chicago's black community over police violence

As the mayor addresses counterparts from across the US on policing and urban
violence, he faces calls to quit, having lost credibility on just these issues

Jamiles Lartey in Chicago
Wednesday 20 January 2016 12.00 GMT

Chicago’s mayor, Rahm Emanuel, will be back in the national spotlight on Wednesday telling mayors from across the United States how police must work to win back the trust of the communities they serve.

Yet while Barack Obama’s former chief of staff is on Capitol Hill trying to shape the future of policing and urban violence at the US conference of mayors, back in his own city there is a growing clamor for him to quit because he has lost all credibility on exactly those issues.

Ever since video of the 2014 fatal shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by a Chicago police officer emerged in December, Emanuel has faced mounting scrutiny and calls to resign, especially from sectors of Chicago’s black community who feel he has done nothing to help lift them out of poverty or tackle the daily scourge of gun violence.

That was the scene last week outside the Hyatt hotel off the shore of Lake Michigan, where a handful of activists and black clergy gathered in protest as guests filed in for the city’s annual Martin Luther King Jr breakfast celebration. “You should be ashamed,” they shouted at the crowd headed inside to Emanuel’s event, many of whom were clergy themselves.

[font size=1]-snip-[/font]

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/20/rahm-emanuel-faces-wrath-chicago-black-community-over-police-violence

[KamaAina]

1. How much of the black vote did he get against Chuy?

[FlatBaroque]

2. Bernie's judgment was correct, again

Bernie supported Rahm's opponent. #FUCKRAHM

[tk2kewl]

3. And Rahm is a long time Clinton family pal

Clinton Still Stands By Embattled Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel
https://www.americarisingpac.org/clinton-still-stands-embattled-chicago-mayor-rahm-emanuel/

Hillary Clinton Still Will Not Call for Rahm Emanuel to Resign
http://freebeacon.com/politics/hillary-clinton-rahm-emanuel-resign/

Hillary Clinton Walks Back Support for Rahm Emanuel, Repeats Call for Reform
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Hillary-Clinton-Walks-Back-Support-for-Rahm-Emanuel-Repeats-Call-for-Reform-365586371.html#ixzz3xoQoQxt6

Hillary Clinton Out of Step with Chicago Voters on Rahm Emanuel
https://www.americarisingpac.org/clinton-still-stands-embattled-chicago-mayor-rahm-emanuel/

Clinton still confident in Rahm Emanuel
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/262207-clinton-expresses-confidence-in-chicago-mayor

[surrealAmerican]

4. Rahm will ignore their "wrath" as long as ...

... they fail to show up on Election Day.

[Octafish]

5. Rahm was not nice to Cynthia McKinney.

After Accusing Police of Racism, Congresswoman Apologizes

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
The New York Times, April 7, 2006

WASHINGTON, April 6 — To her allies, Representative Cynthia McKinney, the fiery Georgia Democrat who apologized on the House floor on Thursday for her scuffle with the Capitol police, is a brilliant and gutsy crusader for the disenfranchised — "a modern-day version of Sojourner Truth," said Representative Marcy Kaptur, Democrat of Ohio, referring to the famed black suffragette.

To her critics, Ms. McKinney is a relentless self-promoter and conspiracy theorist, too extreme to be taken seriously. And some of her colleagues, including fellow Democrats, say that lately she has been a little bit out of control.

"I said, 'You need to come to a nonviolence workshop,' " Representative John Lewis, the Georgia Democrat and 1960's civil rights leader, recalled telling Ms. McKinney in a private conversation on the House floor this week, after the congresswoman declared herself a victim of "racial profiling" by the police.

"I talked to her about lowering the temperature, stopping the press conferences," Mr. Lewis said Wednesday. Ms. McKinney, he said, was noncommittal. "She said, 'I've got to check with my people.' "

SNIP...

It was another twist in the curious saga of a politician who has, virtually overnight, become the talk of the town. In a Capitol populated mostly by white men in conservative suits, Ms. McKinney, 51, brings a voice that is rarely heard — the strong, edgy anger of a black woman who grew up in the South and does not much care whom she offends.

It is no secret here that the Georgia congresswoman gets under people's skin. Representative Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, expressed impatience with Ms. McKinney on Thursday, saying she should "go back to what the people elected her to do." The House Democratic leader, Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, does not even speak to her.

CONTINUED...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/07/washington/07mckinney.html

[daleanime]

6. He should face everyone's wraith....

this shit is fucking insane.

[MariaThinks]

7. Rahm disgusts me - he should resign