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🗓️ 4 September 2018
⏱️ 14 minutes
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A day before the trial of Jason Van Dyke, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel made a surprise announcement - he won’t seek a third term in office. The mayor has faced intense scrutiny for how he handled the shooting of Laquan McDonald. We discuss the announcement and hear reaction.
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0:00.0 | Today the time has come to make another tough choice. |
0:07.0 | As much as I love this job and will always love this city and its residents, |
0:12.0 | I've decided not to seek reelect and will always love this city and its residents. |
0:13.1 | I've decided not to seek re-election. |
0:17.6 | This has been the job of a lifetime, |
0:21.0 | but it is not a job for a lifetime. |
0:24.0 | From W.B. E. Z. Chicago and the Chicago Tribune, |
0:29.0 | this is 16 shots, the police shooting of Lacan McDonald. I'm Jen White. |
0:34.3 | Over the last three episodes, we've told you how the city of Chicago |
0:37.8 | spun a narrative about what happened the night Lacan |
0:40.7 | McDonald was killed, how that narrative fell apart, and how the city reacted |
0:45.2 | when it did. |
0:47.0 | One of the people at the center of that story has been Chicago Mayor Ram Emanuel. |
0:52.2 | But this morning, to the shock of many, |
0:54.1 | Emanuel announced he would not be running for re-election for a third term. |
0:58.8 | Emanuel made the announcement just one day before the murder trial of Chicago police officer |
1:03.9 | Jason Van Dyke. One of the reporters at the mayor's announcement this morning was |
1:08.2 | Becky Vivi. She covers City Hall for W be easy. Becky, what was the scene like? |
1:14.0 | Well, Jen, this happened in the press conference room on the fifth floor of City Hall. |
1:19.0 | This is the room where many, many mayors, many decades have held press conferences about a wide variety of things. |
1:26.4 | It was tense. |
1:27.9 | There were people who worked for the mayor lined along the edge of the walls. |
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