CHICAGO (Reuters) - The head of the Chicago police was dismissed on Tuesday after days of protest against the 16 shooting of a white police officer against a black teenager and the refusal of the department for more than one year to present a Video of death.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced during a news conference that asked Garry McCarthy, superintendent of police since May 2011, to resign from office. Emanuel also said it was creating a new task force of police internal affairs.
The white policeman Jason Van Dyke was charged for a murder week in the first degree in the death of Laquan McDonald in 2014. The video recorded by the dashboard camera of a patrol car was released the same day.
Murders of black men by police, especially white, have provoked protests for nearly two years in North American cities, fueling a national debate on race relations and police approaches.
Emanuel, a Democrat and former head of president's office Barack Obama, said to be responsible for what happened in the case as far as the superintendent of police. He stated that the creation of the task force aims to rebuild trust in the police department one of the largest cities in the country.
The mayor said that McCarthy's situation was "diverting attention". In an editorial on Tuesday, the Chicago Sun-Times called for the resignation of McCarthy and black representatives in the City Hall and protesters also came claiming his departure from office.
About 150 protesters endured near-freezing temperatures on the Chicago police headquarters on Tuesday night in a protest led by the local branch of the group The Lives of Black Matter.
"We have built a resistance movement and to put pressure on the highest positions in both the police department and at City Hall," said protester Damon Williams, 23. "This is a very long struggle and we have much work to do."
(Additional reporting by David Greising, Michael Lansu, Dave McKinney, Karl Plume and Renita Young in Chicago)
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