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A majority of Chicagoans now think that the Mayor should resign.
It's hard to remember a time when Rahm Emanuel wasn't a Democratic Party superstar. Go back to 1991, when the thirty-two-year-old took over fund-raising for Bill Clinton. He was soon renowned for making the staff come to work on Sundays, shrieking into the phone to donors things
like "Five thousand dollars is an insult! You're a twenty-five-thousand-dollar person!"—and, not incidentally, helping Clinton afford the blitz of TV commercials that
saved him from the Gennifer Flowers scandal, clearing his course to the White House. The legend continued through this past April, when Rahm—in Chicago and D.C., he's known by that single name—won a second term as the mayor of Chicago in a come-from-behind landslide.
Nine months later, Chicagoans—and Democrats nationally—are suffering buyer's remorse. Last month, a Cook County judge ordered the release of a shocking dashcam video of a black seventeen-year-old named
Laquan McDonald being shot sixteen times by a policeman while he was walking away. Five days later, the officer was charged with murder.
The charge came after four hundred days of public inaction, and only hours before the video's release. Of almost four hundred police shootings of civilians
investigated by the city's Independent Police Review Authority since 2007, only one was found to be unjustified. So the
suspicion was overwhelming that the officer would not have faced discipline at all had officials not feared a riot—especially after it was learned that McDonald's family had been paid five million dollars from city coffers without ever having filed a lawsuit. Mayor Emanuel claims that he never saw the video. Given that he surely would not have been reëlected had any of this come out before the balloting, a recent
poll showed that only seventeen per cent of Chicagoans believe him. And a
majority of Chicagoans now think he should resign.
Comment: The people struggle to escape this hellish and genocidal regime, but whenever the terrorists themselves are in a bad spot the US finds a way to help them out: