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WASHINGTON - AUGUST 10:  White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel reacts after reading  "Duck for President," by Doreen Cronin and  Betsy Lewin, to students from Raymond and C.W. Harris Elementary schools during a Reading to the Top event at the Department of Education August 10, 2009 in Washington, DC. The department's Reading to the Top program, which runs through Sept. 11, features various children's books read by the Secretary Duncan, other Cabinet members and top Administration officials.  (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

So many random bad apples in the Chicago city government.  I wonder what can explain it?

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has fired the city’s police superintendent, Garry F. McCarthy, following a botched handling of the shooting of 17 year-old Laquan McDonald by a Chicago police officer.

Officer Jason Van Dyke shot McDonald 16 times back in October of 2014. The footage was just recently released by Chicago officials only after a freelance journalist sued the department for access.

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Mayor Emanuel noted that the city had lost its trust in McCarthy’s ability to lead. But it’s becoming clear, if it wasn’t already, that the common denominator in all these so-called trust issues is the mayor himself—who, as a damning New York Times op-ed reminds us, went to court to prevent the McDonald footage from being released while he was seeking re-election.

The audacity of the cover-up aside, Emanuel has hired leaders who have proven themselves to be, at best, indifferent about the safety of Chicago citizens—McCarthy praised Chicago police for exhibiting “incredible restraint” during the protests for Laquan McDonald—and literal crooks at worst. Many are now also calling for the resignation of Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez, whose track record has been described as “horrifying.”

In a press conference, Emanuel reportedly accepted responsibility for the events surrounding Laquan McDonald’s death. If Rahm Emanuel truly believes that, it is time he recognizes that the key person in all these failures—and perhaps the one that needs to be removed—is the mayor himself.

We’ll probably never know.

 

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