A year after Laquan McDonald video, Chicago’s reforms uneven

Though the city has created a new agency to investigate police shootings and misconduct it has delayed the promised creation of a citizen oversight board.

[...] the video and release of reports of officers at the scene did something that other police shootings of African Americans could not: not only show the killing but also the way officers allegedly covered it up.

“Here, the video of an officer using deadly force without basis (and) the falsification of police reports is precisely why there is a lack of public confidence in the work police officers carry out,” said Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Washington, D.C.

The public uproar prompted accusations that Emanuel fought the release of the video of the 2014 shooting because he did not want it coming out during his re-election campaign.