Racism, 'lying cops' among concerns aired before Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s newly formed Police Accountability Task Force by lawless black Chicagoans

PHOTO: Lori Lightfoot, president of the Chicago Police Board, speaks during the Chicago Police Accountability Task Force's first community forum

Chicagoans came together Tuesday night on the West Side at the first of four public meetings with Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s newly formed Police Accountability Task Force to express anger over the killing of young unarmed men and what some called the heart of the city’s problem with police: racism.

“We intend to lay bare some very tough issues, some very hard truths — things that we haven’t talked about in public before and certainly not put in writing, and use those as a springboard to the various recommendations that are coming forth,” said Lori Lightfoot, chair of the task force and president of the Chicago Police Board, in welcoming comments from the public.


On the same day he ousted Police Supt. Garry McCarthy, Emanuel in December announced the creation of the task force. The five-member panel — with Chicago native and former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick as its senior adviser —  is charged with recommending reforms aimed at improving “independent oversight of police misconduct” in the wake of the furor over white police Officer Jason Van Dyke’s October 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald as the 17-year-old was walking away from Van Dyke.

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