Lightfoot pressured on police accountability

Two years ago, Lori Lightfoot demanded that then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel empower a civilian oversight board to fire the police superintendent and establish police policy. Now that Lightfoot is mayor instead of the police board president who chaired the Task Force on Police Accountability, both of those issues have emerged as sticking points standing in the way of civilian police review.

On Thursday, the Grassroots Alliance for Police Accountability held a City Hall news conference to demand that Lightfoot honor the promise she made two months before becoming a mayoral candidate.

GAPA Coordinator Desmon Yancy acknowledged that state law gives the mayor alone the power to fire the superintendent. But the stalemate is over what would happen when the civilian review board takes a vote of no-confidence in the superintendent.

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