Your Helpful Police

[JackLuis]

Minneapolis cop caught pointing weapon at Rep. Keith Ellison’s unarmed son

You don't do that to a Congress Critter's son, dummy!

 

[JackLuis]

Follow up to#144

Nice White Dad’s Autopsy Suggests Being Hogtied By Cops A Horrible Way To Die

Wonkette has been following the story of a 31-year-old Memphis dad named Troy Goode, who in July went to a Widespread Panic concert in Southaven, Mississippi, with his wife, Kelli, and somehow ended up dying at the hospital in Southaven police custody hours later.

Witnesses reported Goode was hogtied by officers as he was having an asthma attack, and that before he was shunted into an ambulance, he could be heard screaming, “I CAN’T BREATHE!” Police wouldn’t let Kelli give him his inhaler. Later, they threatened to arrest her when she tried to inquire as to Troy’s well-being in the hospital. Totally normal behavior. Within an hour of arriving at the hospital, Goode was dead.

Lesson, don't go to Mississippi, ever!

 

[JackLuis]

Helpful neighbor shoots a 'burglar!"

Texas man could avoid charges after shooting undercover cop he mistook for burglar

Texas man opened fire Thursday morning when he spotted what he believed to be a burglar near his neighbor’s truck.

That prowler, however, turned out to be an undercover police officer attempting to place a tracking device on a suspect’s car as part of a federal drug investigation, reported WFAA-TV.

The officer was hospitalized with gunshot wounds to his arm, leg and hand, but the Arlington police chief said he was expected to recover.

The neighbor may not face any charges in connection with the shooting, which led to an hours-long standoff in a residential neighborhood.

“Texas law also allows for use to use deadly force to stop a burglary,” said Toby Shook, a former prosecutor. “Texas law is pretty liberal in this area.”

The undercover officer was placing the GPS device on the pickup about 6 a.m. when the neighbor, whose name has not been released, asked him what he was doing.

The officer told the man he had dropped something, and sources said the man opened fire with what they described as an assault rifle.

Another neighbor who witnessed the shooting said the wounded officer was dressed all in black and never identified himself as a police officer.

 

[JackLuis]

WATCH: Texas woman shoots at fleeing thief in Walmart parking lot — then gets in truck and drives off

Punk gets his ass handed to him by citizens and pistol packing Mama!

Police in Bellmead, Texas are looking for a woman who thought she was being helpful by shooting at an unarmed would-be purse snatcher in a Walmart parking lot as other bystanders were pursuing him.

According to KWTX, the man snatched the purse of an elderly woman as she and a companion were unloading groceries in the parking lot.

Between four and five men tackled the thief and pinned him to the ground, however he broke loose at which point a woman who was standing by and pointing a gun at both the thief and his pursuers as they wrestled with him took a shot at him as he attempted to flee.

Although the man was not hit, he did stumble and was once again tackled.

As he was being held, the woman — in jeans and a white t-shirt — can be seen calmly walking away with her gun in hand before reportedly getting in her truck and driving off prior to the police arriving.

 

[JackLuis]

Texas dad left paralyzed when cops beat him ‘like a bunch of thugs’ after mistaking him for drug suspect

A Texas man was left paralyzed more than a year after police officers beat him “like a bunch of thugs” after mistaking him for a fleeing drug suspect.

Roger Carlos was paralyzed from the chest down after complications from Nov. 3 surgery to repair his injured spine, reported KENS-TV.

The 43-year-old father of three has undergone multiple surgeries on his neck and spine to relieve pain and pressure from herniated discs in connection with the May 2014 beating by two San Antonio police officers and an undercover drug task force officer.

Carlos was photographing a building where his wife planned to open a medical practice when the officers approached and started beating him in the head.

“These guys, they beat me like a bunch of thugs,” Carlos said earlier this year.

He insisted he was complying with police orders and not fighting back — but he said the officers struck him at least 50 times.

The thugs were disciplined though.

The SWAT officers were identified as Carlos Chavez and Virgilo Gonzalez, but the undercover drug task force officer was not identified due to the nature of his job.

They were suspended for 15 days late last year, but Police Chief William McManus cut their punishment to five days just before taking a planned retirement.

 

[JackLuis]

Authorities release footage of Chicago cop fatally shooting Laquan McDonald as he walked away

A white Chicago policeman was charged on Tuesday with murdering a black teenager, a prosecution that was speeded up in hopes of staving off a fresh burst of the turmoil over race and police use of deadly force that has shaken the United States for more than a year.

A highly anticipated video of the Oct. 20, 2014 shooting was released on Tuesday afternoon in accordance with a court order and a day earlier than expected. The police website became overwhelmed and did not function.

Seventeen-year-old Laquan McDonald was shot 16 times by police officer Jason Van Dyke, who emptied his gun and prepared to reload, prosecutors said. Van Dyke, 37, has said through his lawyer and the police union that the shooting was justified because he felt threatened by McDonald.

“Clearly, this officer went overboard and he abused his authority, and I don’t think use of force was necessary,” top Cook County prosecutor Anita Alvarez said at a news conference after the hearing.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel appealed for calm as the city prepared for possible protests.

“It is fine to be passionate but it essential to remain peaceful,” Emanuel told a news conference to announce the release of the video, which was taken by a police patrol car’s dashboard camera. Emanuel was flanked by a dozen community leaders at the news conference.

At the same news conference, Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said police would “facilitate” protests but would not tolerate criminal behavior.

Watch the video, it stops after the first shot and doesn't show the cop emptying his gun. I guess that would have been excessive?

 

[JackLuis]

Chicago cop shot Laquan McDonald six seconds after leaving his car as teen was walking away: prosecutors

CHICAGO — Cook County prosecutors said in court Tuesday that a Chicago police officer charged with first-degree murder opened fire six seconds after exiting his squad car as 17-year-old Laquan McDonald was walking away from him.

Officer Jason Van Dyke fired 16 rounds at McDonald in about 14 seconds and was reloading when another officer told him to hold his fire, prosecutors told Judge Donald Panarese at bond court.

The judge ordered Van Dyke held without bail until the judge can personally view a police dash-cam video of the shooting on the Southwest Side in October 2014. The judge will view the video on Monday.

The dash-cam shows Van Dyke jumping out of his squad car and within seconds unloading 16 rounds into McDonald, lawyers for McDonald's family have said.

After the first few shots knocked McDonald to the ground, Van Dyke fired another volley that struck the African-American teen repeatedly as his body lay in almost a fetal position on the ground, according to the lawyers.

Police said McDonald, who had PCP in his system when he died, was behaving erratically and refusing police commands to drop a 4-inch folding knife. The police union has maintained the officer fired in fear of his life because the teen lunged at him and his partner with the knife. Van Dyke's lawyer also has said the officer feared for his life.

Oh yes he 'Lunged' with a knife from half the width of the street with a scary 4 inch knife. Give me a break!

The case would mark the first time a Chicago police officer has been charged with first-degree murder for an on-duty fatality in nearly 35 years. Van Dyke would face a minimum of 20 years in prison if convicted of the first-degree murder charge.

The charges would come less than a week after a Cook County judge ordered the release of the video, which Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration had long sought to keep out of public view. As Emanuel urged prosecutors to conclude their investigation Monday, he met with community leaders and aldermen to defend his handling of the controversy amid criticism that City Hall has not done enough to address police misconduct.

But in a sign of the tensions underlying the issue, some activists said they turned down the overtures to meet with Emanuel because City Hall has shown little recognition of their broader concerns.

"Everything is being taken from us, nothing is being given to us and everyone is trying to tell us how to act and respond to that," said Timothy Bradford, with Black Youth Project 100. "There's always focus on how black people perform and respond to being abused and exploited and oppressed politically, economically and socially. There's very little focus and investment in addressing the root causes of everything that precedes this."

 

[JackLuis]

Lawyer for Chicago cop says Laquan McDonald video is unreliable because it is 2-dimensional

The lawyer for a white Chicago police officer charged in the 2014 murder of a black teenager said on Wednesday his client feared for his life and that dashboard camera footage released by police is unreliable because video “distorts images.”

Daniel Herbert told CNN that Officer Jason Van Dyke arrived at the scene 18 minutes after a suspect carrying a knife was reported to have threatened businesses and vandalized police cruisers. Prosecutors said Van Dyke shot 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times only 30 seconds after he arrived.

“The reason my client Jason fired his weapon that evening back in October 2014 is that he truly was in fear for his life as well as the lives of his fellow police officers,” Herbert said.

Prosecutors said Van Dyke fired the 16 shots within 30 seconds of arriving and just six seconds after emerging from his patrol car, emptying his gun at McDonald and preparing to reload. Herbert told CNN his client was afraid McDonald was going to attack him with a knife.

Herbert said the video was not an indicator of his client’s guilt.

“Video by its nature is 2-dimensional. It distorts images. So what appears to be clear on a video sometimes is not always that clear,” Herbert said.

The Chicago Police Department had argued that releasing the video would taint multiple investigations.

“Investigations of police shootings and misconduct are highly complex matters that carry with them very unique legal issues, that must be fully examined and taken into consideration,” Cook County prosecutor Anita Alvarez said on Tuesday.

Unique like, how do we blame the act on the black kid when he was 30 feet or more from the cops?

 

[JackLuis]

Bill O’Reilly’s white panel declares black men the real ‘social problem’ after Laquan video is released

Hours after Chicago police released video of an officer shooting Laquan McDonald, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly hosted a panel to focus on two cases that he said proved black on white crime was the real “social problem.”

“The group Black Lives Matter has gained traction among the left in America by saying the American system is out to punish black people,” O’Reilly opined. “At the same time, violent crime generated by African-Americans is an enormous social problem.”

To underscore his point, O’Reilly recalled the recent shootings of Amanda Blackburn and Peter Gold, who are both white.

“African-American young males — I think it’s between 15 and 24 — commit way out of proportion crime to every other group,” the Fox News host told contributors Lis Wiehl and Kimberly Guilfoyle. “So Black Lives Matter, they run around and say American society is punishing and stalking young black men when the reality is young black men are doing far more damage than the police in Chicago.”

So we shouldn't judge trigger happy cops because...?
I'm surprised he didn't suggest an Open Season, no bag limit, no magazine restrictions on blacks?

 

[JackLuis]

CNN analyst: Chicago cop not ‘in the wrong’ to shoot 16 times because Laquan kept ‘moving’

CNN law enforcement analyst Jonathan Gilliam asserted on Wednesday that Chicago Officer Jason Van Dyke did nothing wrong when he shot 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times because the teen continued to move after he was down.

After reviewing recently released dash cam footage of the shooting, Gilliam said that McDonald was within a “lethal area that this person could lunge at you” because he was less than 21 feet away from the officer.

“Just because you shoot a person doesn’t mean they’re going to fall,” the retired Navy SEAL opined, recalling that one insurgent in Iraq had to be shot 13 times before he dropped to the ground.

“But Jonathan, this young man was on the ground,” CNN host Carol Costello pointed out.

“The point is even though he’s on the ground, he never dropped the knife and he continues to move,” Gilliam insisted. “Until the knife leaves his hand, we don’t know if the officers were yelling at him to drop the knife. I’ve seen videos and the reason we have these policies is officers have been killed after they shot somebody with a knife or with a gun.”

You know how blacks can lung 20 feet in a microsecond. It must be those African genes?

However, many who have seen the video of the shooting have observed that it was the impact of the bullets that moved McDonald’s body after he was down.

“The force of the bullets spins McDonald around. His legs stiffen as he falls backward to the pavement. The teen rolls onto his right side in the middle of the roadway,” the Chicago Tribune reported. “Two clouds of smokelike debris silently puff upward immediately after McDonald falls. His head appears to lift, his arm moves. Then more bullets. Another cloud of white debris kicks up from behind his head.”

 

[JackLuis]

Fox’s Martha MacCallum: Laquan McDonald’s killing is a ‘devastating situation for the policeman’

“But not speaking to police does not equal the ability for them to be shooting 16 times,” Sussman observed.

And then trying to reload!

 

[JackLuis]

Cop shoots and kills Delaware man’s dog — as it runs away from him

Smyrna, DE — Heavily militarized officers from the Delaware State Police and the Smyrna Police Department were allegedly executing a search warrant Friday night when they burst into the home of Mark Reedy.

The raid was captured on Reedy’s in-home security camera and the video was uploaded to Facebook over the weekend.

As the video begins, we can see the dog run up to the door barking and wagging his tail.

“State police, search warrant!” yell the cops behind their body-length military shield.

As the dog sees the shield and the gun he becomes startled and runs away. When the dog runs out of frame, it is clear that he posed no threat to the ten men in full body armor.

Reedy was not home at the time of the raid and when he returned, he found a horrific scene. Police had taken the body of his dog, left the blood puddle, and cut holes in the walls in a likely attempt to recover the bullet fragments that could be used against them in criminal proceedings.

Video of the puppycide and Reedy's response to the "cowardly mother fuckers".

 

[JackLuis]

World’s most ‘adorable drug kingpin’ is actually the daughter of Texas DEA head honcho

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A probable cause statement quoted by NBC affiliate KCEN claims that police found “31.5 grams of packaged cocaine, 126 grams of high grade marijuana, 29 `ecstasy’ tablets, methamphetamine and 60 doses of a drug similar to LSD” in Sarah Furay’s bedroom. They also reported finding two digital scales, packaging materials, and a handwritten drug price list. Police also found text messages in her phone discussing drug transactions.
Miss Furay faces at least three felony charges that could – and, given the renowned severity of the Texas justice system, ordinarily would – result in long prison time: The aggregate maximum sentence would be 215 years behind bars and a $30,000 fine.

That terrifying prospect notwithstanding, the winsome Miss Furay can be seen smiling broadly in her booking photo, which has been called the “happiest mugshot in America.” After spending a day in jail, the 19-year-old, referred to in press accounts as an “adorable drug kingpin,” posted $39,000 bond and was released. On November 23, the online magazine Death and Taxes reported that Sarah is the daughter of DEA official Bill Furay and Shawn Creswell, principal of the Coulson Tough Elementary School in Woodlands.

 

[JackLuis]

Burger King manager tells grand jury Chicago cops erased security video of Laquan McDonald shooting

A Burger King manager in Chicago told the Chicago Tribune that he testified before a grand jury this week about police deleting surveillance video that may have captured last year’s killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, who was shot 16 times in a span of six seconds by a white police officer, Jason Van Dyke.

Jay Darshane accused police of erasing the restaurant’s surveillance tape and the FBI of confiscating the restaurant video recorder containing all of its surveillance images. Darshane's comments came even as protests continued over the weekend in Chicago over the black teenager's death.

According to Darshane, after police examined the video of the night, his employees discovered an 86-minute gap covering the period between 9:13 p.m. to 10:39 p.m. “I was just trying to help the police with their investigation ... I didn’t know they were going to delete it,” Darshane told the Chicago Tribune.

However, Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said the allegations of tampering were “absolutely not true.”

“There were apparently technical difficulties, but in no way, shape or form that anything was tampered with,” he reportedly said.

Chicago often finds "Technical Difficulties" with embarrassing video. What a surprise?

 

[JackLuis]

The neuroscience behind why white cops kill black men
Science explains why Cops are so trigger happy.

If you’ve paid any attention at all to the news during the past year, or simply are on social media, then chances are you’ve seen real life videos of white cops shooting and killing black males when the situation did not warrant it. The most recent video to have surfaced captured the shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke, for which he has been charged with first-degree murder. Earlier this year, a similar video was released of a white South Carolina cop shooting a 50-year-old unarmed black man in the back as he was running away. Although in these cases it was clear that the officers were not presented with any lethal threat while they fired their weapons multiple times, there are also countless cases where police officers have discharged their firearms when the level of threat was more ambiguous.

 

[Nubian_Legend]

Jack Luis isn't going to like this one. This is the most fucked up thing I've ever read.

Alabama cops systematically framed blacks by planting drugs and guns for decades

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/bom...lacks-by-planting-drugs-and-guns-for-decades/

 

[JackLuis]

Jack Luis isn't going to like this one. This is the most fucked up thing I've ever read.



http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/bom...lacks-by-planting-drugs-and-guns-for-decades/

You beat me to it! I guess that's the price I pay for living on the Left coast.

There is a long tradition of planting false evidence in Law enforcement. Alabama is no bastion of civil liberty.

Members of a narcotics investigation squad for the police department in Dothan, Alabama planted drugs and weapons on young black men since the mid-1990s with the approval of their superiors — one of whom is currently the state’s Assistant Director of Homeland Security.

According to the Henry County Report, Andy Hughes was a sergeant in the department while overseeing the unit. But he was also a leader in a neo-Confederate group comprised by squad members, along fellow supervisor Steve Parrish. Parrish, at the time a lieutenant, is currently the city’s police chief.

Documents obtained by the Alabama Justice Project indicate that Parrish and Hughes are frequently mentioned in an internal affairs investigation. However, then-Police Chief John White and District Attorney Doug Valeska did not notify federal or state officials regarding the probe, as is required by department policy.

I wonder if the reason that the Chief and DA didn't notify the State and Feds about the probe is because they feared that it would leak and the probe would be stopped by "those on high?"

 

[JackLuis]

Spokane cop raped sleeping female officer — and then his cop buddies covered it up: prosecutors

This is a new twist on the term 'Friendly Fire'.

Spokane cop raped sleeping female officer — and then his cop buddies covered it up: prosecutors

A sergeant with the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office turned himself in on Wednesday after he was accused of raping a fellow officer, a crime which his buddies on the force reportedly tried to cover up.

KREM reported that Sergeant Gordon Ennis was being held on suspicion of Rape 2nd Degree after an investigation by the sheriff’s office determined that there was probable cause to charge him.

According to court documents, the victim told detectives that she was “very intoxicated” when she passed out in a guest bedroom following a party.

When she woke up, she found Ennis sexually assaulting her, the documents stated. She also stated that she heard Ennis say he needed to go home after she woke up.

 

[Boxlicker101]

You beat me to it! I guess that's the price I pay for living on the Left coast.

There is a long tradition of planting false evidence in Law enforcement. Alabama is no bastion of civil liberty.



I wonder if the reason that the Chief and DA didn't notify the State and Feds about the probe is because they feared that it would leak and the probe would be stopped by "those on high?"

You wouldn't have to be black to have this happen to you. The cops, especially in Oakland, frame white people too, according to some of my former associates.

 

[JackLuis]

You wouldn't have to be black to have this happen to you. The cops, especially in Oakland, frame white people too, according to some of my former associates.

It's true that you don't have to be black,but in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi or Louisiana there is more chance it can happen if you are.

LA cops were famous for carrying 'a little something extra' for these situations.

 

[JackLuis]

Witnesses claim police officers planted gun and drugs on black man after shooting him

On the night of October 16, Ricky Ball, 26, was shot and killed by officers of the Columbus Police Department (CPD). Beyond this fact, the official story is hotly disputed by family and community members, who say that one cop had it out for Ricky and maliciously ended his life that night.

There are several questionable circumstances surrounding the case, which is now in the hands of the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation (MBI) and the FBI. The Free Thought Project has been in contact with someone in the community who was close to Ricky, but has chosen to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation from police.

As the ‘official’ story goes, Ball was a passenger in a vehicle on Oct. 16 which was pulled over by the three cops for “careless driving, no light above the license plate and lack of insurance.” Ball fled the scene but was chased down and shot, and then collapsed about a block and a half away from the traffic stop. He died at the hospital from blood loss.

“Eyewitnesses have made it known in the community that a CPD officer was seen dropping the gun beside Ricky’s body after they pulled him from underneath an eyewitness’ home.”

Days before Chief Carleton quit the department, The Dispatch reported that the gun was stolen from another CPD officer’s residence.

Somehow, this same officer had guns stolen from his residence twice, three weeks apart.

All of these suspicious circumstances demand that a full investigation be completed into the death of Ricky Ball. It is well-known that cops plants drugs and guns on people, especially when the cops are in jeopardy of being accused of a crime or murder.

 

[JackLuis]

Shocking video shows power tripping cop shoving his gun into innocent black man’s face

illiam Cunningham and Kennieth Smith were doing nothing wrong, had committed no crime, and were attempting to go about their daily routine when they were nearly killed by a power tripping cop.

On Wednesday, that power tripping cop, Prince George’s County Police officer Jenchesky Santiago, was remarkably found guilty for 1st and 2nd-degree assault, use of a firearm in violence, and misconduct in office – only after cellphone footage survived and was given to prosecutors.

The video remained private until the PGPD police department released it this week. What it shows is nothing short of a lunatic on a rampage threatening innocent people with his gun.

On May 10, 2014, Cunningham and Smith were sitting in a vehicle outside Cunningham’s home as Smith was dropping off his cousin. At this point, Santiago approached the vehicle and told them they were parked illegally, according to prosecutors.

However, because of that video, a tyrant’s true colors were exposed to the world and he is now facing a minimum of 5-years in prison.

 

[JackLuis]

DOJ to investigate Chicago Police Department’s use of force

The U.S. Department of Justice will investigate the Chicago Police Department following protests over its handling of last year’s case of a black teenager shot by a white police officer, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Monday.

U.S. authorities will look at the department’s use of force, including deadly force, among other issues, she said at a press briefing to announce the civil probe.

“Our goal in this investigation… is not to focus on individuals but to improve systems,” Lynch said.

She said federal officials would be investigating “constitutional violations.”

“What we are looking is to see whether or not the police department as a systemic matter has engaged in constitutional violations of policing,” Lynch said.

We shall see if Ms Lynch is any more intent on Constitutionality than the last DOJ.

 

[JackLuis]

‘They shot the wrong guy’: Wisconsin cops accused of shooting hostage who was suing them for $50 million

Police shot and killed a man Saturday afternoon during an armed standoff at a Wisconsin motorcycle shop — but friends say the victim was a hostage.

The standoff began shortly before 9 a.m. at Eagle Nation Cycles in Neenah, where owner Steve Erato said an armed man demanded the return of his motorcycle, which had been sold to another man and brought to the shop for repairs.

Erato came upstairs from the shop’s basement to check on the commotion, but he said an employee and friend — Michael Funk — silently warned him to return downstairs.

The gunman held Funk and two customers hostage while Erato stayed in contact with police from his hideout in the basement.

Erato said he doesn’t believe Funk would have fought with or threatened police after escaping the gunman who had been holding him hostage.

“I can’t imagine that he had a gun on him and wouldn’t use it on the shooter and would run out and threaten the cops,” Erato said. “It just doesn’t make any sense.”

“He was a hostage coming out (of the building),” Erato said. “They shot him in the alley. They shot the wrong guy.”

Well Shit Happens!

 

[JackLuis]

Rahm Emanuel calls for new probe after video shows Chicago cops beating and Tasing prisoner

Only two weeks ago, after months of public pressure, the Chicago PD released the dashcam of Laquan McDonald being murdered by officer Jason Van Dyke. Then, only yesterday, Chicago police quietly slipped out another video of officer George Hernandez murdering Ronald Johnson, by shooting him in the back as he ran away.

The latest video to be released is from an incident in the Far South Side police lockup and shows officers repeatedly tasering University of Chicago graduate Philip Coleman and then dragging his limp body from the cell.

Coleman was not a criminal, but he was experiencing an apparent mental crisis when he began to attack his mother in December of 2012. When police arrested him, Coleman was brought to a hospital where he was given a drug to make him calm down.

According to officials, Coleman’s death was the result of his reaction to that anti-psychotic drug, which certainly can kill people. However, an autopsy showed that Coleman experienced ‘severe trauma’ while in custody. His body was covered in bruises and cuts, from the top of his head to his lower legs and there is video showing him being repeatedly tasered.

“I do not see how the manner in which Mr. Coleman was physically treated could possibly be acceptable,” Mayor Rahm Emanuel said in statement Monday night, as he now pretends to care about police brutality in Chicago.

Emanuel then reiterated that there was no possible way that he died as a result of his brutal beating and being repeatedly tasered, but made sure to make himself look good for his critics. “While the Medical Examiner ruled that Mr. Coleman died accidentally as a result of treatment he received in the hospital, it does not excuse the way he was treated when he was in custody. Something is wrong here — either the actions of the officers who dragged Mr. Coleman, or the policies of the department.”

Indeed, Mr. Emanuel knew about the tragic death of Coleman when it initially happened on Dec. 12, 2012, as he had already been mayor for over 6 months. How is it that all of the sudden, Rahm Emanuel is experiencing a crisis of consciousness now, and cares about the victims of his attack dogs?