Subject: FOR ASAP REVIEW: STATEMENT ON SHOOTING OF LAQUAN McDONALD
From: Dan Schwerin <[email-masked]>
To: Speech Drafts <[email-masked]>, Tyrone Gayle <[email-masked]>, LaDavia Drane <[email-masked]>, Tracey Lewis <[email-masked]>, Brynne Craig <[email-masked]>, Jeremy Jansen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 20:06:21 -0500
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All, below is a draft statement on events in Chicago, written in
consultation with Maya and Marlon.  We need to move fast on this, so please
send any edits or concerns ASAP.
Thanks
Dan

STATEMENT ON SHOOTING OF LAQUAN MCDONALD

The video released tonight is appalling and heartbreaking.  I am praying
for the family of Laquan McDonald and all the people of Chicago.  They
deserve justice and accountability.  They deserve a city where everyone can
live with dignity, free from fear.  The mothers I met recently in Chicago
are right: we cannot go on like this.  No more parents should have to bury
their children.  No more communities should feel the pain of violence. And
as Mayor Emanuel said, no one is above the law.

We have a lot of work to do to make our criminal justice system actually
deliver justice, and to rebuild the trust that outrages like the death of
this young man has ripped away.  All over America, there are police
officers honorably doing their duty, demonstrating how to protect the
public without resorting to unnecessary force.  We need to learn from those
examples.  The killing of Laquan McDonald, coming on the heels of so many
other young African Americans taken too soon, should compel us to confront
the reality that communities of color face every day.  People are making
their voices heard across the country and we have to listen to what they’re
saying.  We have to hear their pain, their anger, and their call for
change.

Tonight let there be peace and prayers.  Tomorrow, let us press forward
toward progress.

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