Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday declined to say whether he agreed with Chicago police Superintendent Garry McCarthy's assertion that an off-duty detective should not have faced criminal charges in the 2012 fatal shooting of a woman.
The mayor also did not say whether he backed McCarthy's comment that the victim "also happened" to be hit by Detective Dante Servin's gunfire as the off-duty cop "hit the individual who he was aiming at."
Questions about Chicago police shootings were in the forefront following Servin's acquittal last week and the city's continued refusal to release dashboard camera footage in the case of Laquan McDonald, a 17-year-old shot 16 times and killed by Officer Jason Van Dyke. That case is being investigated by the FBI.
Emanuel faced the questions a day after McCarthy discussed the Servin case. Prosecutors charged Servin with involuntary manslaughter, alleging the officer acted recklessly when he fired five shots over his shoulder from inside his Mercedes in the direction of four people who had their backs to him in a dark West Side alley in March 2012.
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