
Biden nominee Rahm Emanuel defends handling of Laquan McDonald case under Squad criticism
Fox News
President Biden's pick for ambassador to Japan, Rahm Emanuel, explained at his conformation hearing Wednesday how he handled the police shooting of Laquan McDonald when he was mayor of Chicago.
"I said then, I’m the mayor and I’m responsible and accountable for fixing this so this never happens again," Emanuel said when discussing the matter. "To be honest there’s not a day or a week that has gone by in the last seven years I haven’t thought about this and thought about the what-ifs and the changes and what could have been."
The accusations of impropriety stemmed from the lengthy delay of the release of police video, which undermined earlier reports that the shooting was justified. The footage was not made public until a judge ordered Emanuel to have it released more than a year after McDonald's death, finding that the state had violated records laws by not releasing it earlier.