To: Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Chicago City Council
CIVILIAN POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY COUNCIL
We, residents of Chicago, Illinois, do hereby petition the Chicago City Council and Mayor Rahm Emanuel to enact legislation such as that proposed by the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression to establish a democratically elected Civilian Board of Control of the Police Department. This board will be empowered to make policy, hire, and fire police, and petition for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate and prosecute police accused of crimes such as battery, unlawful arrest, racial profiling, torture, murder, and the use of force to suppress the democratic rights of the people to organize and protest.
Why is this important?
My son Flint Farmer was gunned down and killed by a Chicago Police Officer while he was lying on his stomach. This officer of the law has still not been arrested, and it's been over a year. Also, this incident was caught on video by the officer's own police car dash cam. And in the police report, the police ruled this as a justifiable homocide. We need someone other than the police to police the police!