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Cabinet Positions, Cover-ups, and Confronting Disparities
Does the Laquan McDonald cover-up permanently disqualify Former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel from future public service?
Democratic president-elect Joe Biden didn’t promise a post-Trump “return to normalcy”, but he did promise to return professionalism and expertise to the executive branch. Therefore, Biden considered former Chicago mayor, Rahm Emanuel, for a cabinet position. Emanuel has a mixed track record, but a mixed track record isn’t a bad report card, unless there’s a scandal.
Emanuel’s detractors insisted his handling of the Laquan McDonald police shooting disqualified him from the new administration that has pledged to combat systemic racism. (McDonald was a black teenager with a knife and he was shot by a white police officer.)
The Chicago Sun-Times reported, “Attorneys for the city fought against the release of the video that showed the 17-year-old’s murder, only to have a Cook County judge order it release months after Emanuel had secured his second term in a runoff election.” After the video was seen the New York Times reported, “Cover-ups of misconduct had rarely been made so plain as in the discrepancy between the officers’ account of the killing and what the video later showed.” (Sixteen officers…