AOC slams Biden's Rahm Emanuel nomination as 'deeply shameful'
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., forcefully came out against the nomination of former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to be the next U.S. ambassador to Japan, calling the selection "deeply shameful."
"This nomination is deeply shameful. As mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel helped cover up the murder of Laquan McDonald - a mere teenager when he was shot 16 times in the back by a Chicago Police Officer," Ocasio-Cortez said in a statement. "This alone should be flatly disqualifying for any position of public trust, let alone representing the United States as an ambassador." The police video had been kept under wraps until a judge ordered Emanuel to release it more than a year later, finding that the state had violated records laws by not releasing it earlier. Emanuel denied covering it up, and in January 2019 three of Van Dyke's colleagues, Officer Thomas Gaffney, former Officer Joseph Walsh and former Detective David March, were found not guilty of obstruction of justice, official misconduct and conspiracy.
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