This was covered by the SunTimes yesterday in an article titled Sharpton puts city on notice.
Yes, Chicago police have at times been known to be less than courteous throughout our cities history, particularly recently. This lately being due to a now former officer that beats up women in bars after getting drunk that I blogged here, and then again when some other drunken cops beat up some businessmen also for no apparent reason whatsoever. Both of these brutal beatings were captured by 'spy in the sky surveillance cameras', and were it not for these videos in both instances, these cops would likely have gotten away with what most bad cops over the years have routinely escaped charges for, that being police brutality and assault arrests both on and off duty.
Are the Chicago police the only departments that get away or have gotten away with this type of behavior, both of the above instances being violent episodes beyond explanation? No they are not. Does that make this behavior any more acceptable, no it does not. Does AL Sharpton have any special moral authority to come weeping into town to repair this problem any more than anyone else does? No.
And for Reverend Al (the reverend of who and or what we still don't know) who's now moving a chapter of his anti everything organization here in the city to rescue the citizens from bad cops, this maneuver is nothing more than yet another publicity stunt, aimed at keeping his higher than usual profile soaring after the Imus lynching boost as they are simultaneously beneficial for his checkbook and his ego which is as large as his jumbo sized appetite.
Mayor Daley apparently and accurately feels the same way that I and many others do about this development, and had this to say Tuesday about the Super Rev donning his cape and flying into the city to the rescue as if the mayor isn't doing enough about the problem already.
Citizens don't fear, because SuperRev Al Sharpton is here:
Daley responds to Sharpton ::
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Politics: "Without mentioning the Rev. Al Sharpton by name, Mayor Daley today ridiculed the New York civil rights leader’s suggestion that Daley is “getting a pass” on the issue of police abuse.
According to the article Sharpton is setting up shop in Chicago this week — by opening a local chapter of his National Action Network, a New York-based civil rights organization — because he believes police abuse is a chronic problem here and that local leaders have failed to hold the mayor’s feet to the fire.
Daley considers the suggestion ludicrous — especially after enduring years of negative headlines tied to the Hired Truck, city hiring and minority contracting scandals, and the controversy over police torture allegations against former Chicago Police Lt. Jon Burge."
“All the headlines you ran against me for two years — I did nothing right in Chicago under your headlines. You know. You wrote the articles. Look at every headline. You wrote articles about everything [negative] about Mayor Daley,” the mayor told a Chicago Sun-Times reporter.Still seething about what he considers the newspaper’s guilt-by-association attempts to link him to a Bridgeport trucker implicated in the mob-related bombing of a suburban restaurant, the mayor said, “I take responsibility for everything and people judged me last February [with a landslide re-election to a sixth term.] And whether it’s police abuse or . . . citizen abuse in law enforcement, it is serious.”
Pressed on whether he “takes exception” to Sharpton’s claim, Daley said, “I didn’t take exception. I just said that you wrote every major headline against me. So, that’s your gig. We understand that. Police understand that, too. One minute you hit ‘em. And the next day, you’re gonna be nice to ‘em. continued here
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