By The Associated Press
The latest developments in the city of Chicago’s efforts to deal with fatal police shootings and police accountability (all times local):
7:45 a.m.
At least four different groups are planning protests throughout the day in and around Chicago’s City Hall to draw attention to cases of alleged abuse by police officers. At least one group says it is demanding Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s resignation.
Emanuel will deliver an address Wednesday morning about the police department to a special City Council session.
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The release last month of a video showing the 2014 killing of a black teenager by a white police officer has set off weeks of largely peaceful protests and led to the dismissal of the city’s police chief.
The first of Wednesday’s protests, by a group called the Coalition for a New Chicago, is planned for 8 a.m. inside City Hall.
Less than an hour later, a group of Christian clergy plans to gather at an entrance to the building. Two other demonstrations are planned, at City Hall and in a nearby plaza.
On Thursday, a 5 p.m. rally is planned by the Chicago Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression.
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This story has been corrected to show that the 5 p.m. rally is planned for Thursday, not Wednesday.
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1:00 a.m.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has called a special City Council meeting to give an address about Chicago’s police department — the center of the biggest crisis of his administration.
Wednesday morning’s speech will come two days after U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced a Justice Department civil rights investigation to determine if there are patterns of racial disparity in the police department’s use of force.
Emanuel has been engulfed in a media firestorm since a video was released two weeks ago showing the killing of a black teenager by a white police officer who shot him 16 times. Since then, Emanuel has forced the police superintendent to resign, brought in a new head of an agency that investigates police shootings and fended off calls for his own resignation.
Several groups have planned for protests Wednesday at City Hall and a nearby plaza.
