In November of 2015, the dash cam video footage of the shooting death of Laquan McDonald was released by order of a Cook County judge. It was footage that the city had worked to suppress, claiming it would hinder the investigation as to why Officer Jason Van Dyke, who has since been charged with first-degree murder, shot the 17-year-old McDonald 16 times.

Of course, demonstrations have taken place, with protestors railing against the alleged corruption within the Chicago Police Department. They also want Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who has also fired his Police Superintendent, Garry McCarthy, to resign as well. Many have been saying that the mayor’s office had been working to suppress the footage, not due to any detrimental impact it might have on the investigation, but because Emanuel was running for re-election and needed black voter support. On that matter, new emails have shed new light, showing coordination between Emanuel’s office, the Chicago Police and the Independent Police Review Authority. As the Associated Press wrote, the communications clearly show that the mayor’s office knew this shooting could be “politically explosive.” Fox23Chicago added that there’s also allegations that police falsified eyewitness accounts and other instances of police coercion

Read the article “Rahm Under Siege: Emails Show Coordination between Chicago Police and Mayor’s Office after Laquan Shooting” on townhall.com.