{"id":182150,"date":"2015-12-07T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T00:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/12\/07\/rahm-throws-another-evil-minion-under-the-bus\/"},"modified":"2015-12-07T19:56:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T00:56:00","slug":"rahm-throws-another-evil-minion-under-the-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/12\/07\/rahm-throws-another-evil-minion-under-the-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahm Throws Another Evil Minion\u2122 under the Bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the (supposedly) Independent Police Review Authority, Scott Ando, <a href=\"http:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/chicago-politics\/7\/71\/1158836\/police-review-authority-boss-ousted\">has been fired by hizzonner<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A former federal prosecutor will head the agency charged with investigating police shootings in Chicago after the immediate resignation of its chief administrator, Mayor Rahm Emanuel\u2019s office announced Sunday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Sharon Fairley will take over for Scott Ando as the head of the Independent Police Review Authority, according to a statement from the mayor\u2019s office. Fairley declined to comment when reached Sunday by the Chicago Sun-Times. Ando could not be reached.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cScott has taken important steps to move IPRA forward and reduce its backlog of cases,\u201d Emanuel said in a statement. \u201cYet it has become clear that new leadership is required as we rededicate ourselves to dramatically improving our system of police accountability and rebuilding trust in that process.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Emanuel made his announcement hours after hundreds of protesters led by the Rev. Jesse Jackson marched through the Loop on Sunday, demanding accountability after the release of video footage of Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke fatally shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times on Oct. 20, 2014.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">A former federal prosecutor will head the agency charged with investigating police shootings in Chicago after the immediate resignation of its chief administrator, Mayor Rahm Emanuel\u2019s office announced Sunday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Sharon Fairley will take over for Scott Ando as the head of the Independent Police Review Authority, according to a statement from the mayor\u2019s office. Fairley declined to comment when reached Sunday by the Chicago Sun-Times. Ando could not be reached.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cScott has taken important steps to move IPRA forward and reduce its backlog of cases,\u201d Emanuel said in a statement. \u201cYet it has become clear that new leadership is required as we rededicate ourselves to dramatically improving our system of police accountability and rebuilding trust in that process.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Emanuel made his announcement hours after hundreds of protesters led by the Rev. Jesse Jackson marched through the Loop on Sunday, demanding accountability after the release of video footage of Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke fatally shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times on Oct. 20, 2014.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is gratifying seeing the bully and coward that is Rahm Emanuel scrambling for his political career.<\/p>\n<p>I think that he will serve out his term, even with all this, but it&#8217;s going to be as a very lame duck.<\/p>\n<p>It will be fun to see the knives coming out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the (supposedly) Independent Police Review Authority, Scott Ando, has been fired by hizzonner: A former federal prosecutor will head the agency charged with investigating police shootings in Chicago after the immediate resignation of its chief administrator, Mayor Rahm Emanuel\u2019s office announced Sunday.Sharon Fairley will take over for Scott Ando as the head &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1041,978,985,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-enforcement-misconduct","category-politics","category-regulation","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}