Fired Former Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy Speaks Since Being Fired By Mayor Rahm Emanuel
McCarthy talked about the McDonald case and crime in Chicago during a forum at Harvard University.
The former superintendent says he believes Mayor Rahm Emanuel made him the fall guy for the McDonald shooting despite the fact police shootings as well as overall crime dropped significantly under his tenure.
He notes shootings are up significantly over a year ago since his departure and says the city is in a crisis right now.
While others, including Mayor Emanuel, claim not to have seen it initially, McCarthy says he watched the tape of the McDonald shooting the day after it happened but his hands were tied.
"That was the end of my involvement until the Independent Police Review Authority recommended that I take the only disciplinary step by Illinois state law, which is to strip that officer of his police authority which I did immediately," McCarthy said.
The dash camera video of the shooting was not released publicly for 14 months after the incident. McCarthy says he had no role in that because the investigation was being handled by the Independent Police Review Authority and the feds, not Chicago Police. Nevertheless he agrees with the decision.
"If I was asked, which I wasn't, I would have recommended that we don't release it until the investigation was concluded," he said.
McCarthy says that's because the matter was still under investigation. Chicago police who were charged with controlling protests throughout the city that broke out when the video was eventually made public. McCarthy says officers handled those protests professionally under his leadership.
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