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In reply to the discussion: AOC: Covering up a murder is disqualifying for public leadership. [View all]Ace Rothstein
(3,226 posts)95. Covered up may be the wrong term here.
But Rahm definitely did not approach the McDonald murder how he should have.
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Exactly. It's a shame that it's repeated here on Democratic Underground. The officer involved....
George II
Nov 2020
#12
I disagree, the facts do not back up your claim. His administration stonewalled in order to secure
Celerity
Nov 2020
#37
I notice that none of them are attacking Mondaire Jones (another elected Dem House member) who
Celerity
Nov 2020
#54
No. And I resent you implying (actually outright saying) that sexism is involved in this discussion.
George II
Nov 2020
#117
Mondaire Jones wasn't the subject of the OP nor was he even mentioned in the OP.
George II
Nov 2020
#89
It's hard for some to see past AOC: Covering up a murder is disqualifying for public leadership
Autumn
Nov 2020
#107
Sorry, there were so many tweets I missed that. But Jones isn't the subject of the OP, which is:
George II
Nov 2020
#112
That ws an editorial column by Kristen McQueary in 2016, who clearly has a problem with Emmanuel....
George II
Nov 2020
#47
And nowhere in the column is evidence that he covered up a murder. Sometimes the messenger....
George II
Nov 2020
#65
only after it was ordered by a judge and only after Emmanuel was re-elected and only after
Celerity
Nov 2020
#75
I posted far more than just that, and one could ask why you (for far longer) are so eager to bash
Celerity
Nov 2020
#62
Why are you so eager to bash Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic Public Figure?
Bettie
Nov 2020
#103
I'm not "eager" to do so, but wonder why she is so eager to "bash" Democratic Mayor Rahm Emmanuel...
George II
Nov 2020
#110
There is no evidence that Rahm Emmanuel covered up the murder of Laquan McDonald....
George II
Nov 2020
#2
That's not the point. That accusation is totally untrue and is a baseless attack on a Democrat.
George II
Nov 2020
#9
It's not like AOC to throw something like that out there if she doesn't know what she's talking
BComplex
Nov 2020
#13
She was talking about the fact that our majority was REDUCED by the election, and everyone knew
BComplex
Nov 2020
#24
Some would say it's disrespectful to explain what a woman in power "really meant"
lapucelle
Nov 2020
#82
The handling of the shooting was a scandal, but there was no "cover up of a murder" by the Mayor.
George II
Nov 2020
#78
Tlaibs yesterday was not good. I was talking to my son this morning about it. We were banking on AOC
LizBeth
Nov 2020
#16
The failures of Emanuel listed here. Laquan McDonald is talked about near the bottom.
panader0
Nov 2020
#11
here is plenty of non-Intercept detail to show the stonewalling and cover-up attempts
Celerity
Nov 2020
#42
"the murder of Laquan McDonald" I guess the facts of al this will be in this story.
LizBeth
Nov 2020
#14
Other Administration picks, Tom Daschle and Van Jones were dropped for far less.
Yavin4
Nov 2020
#18
she is not the first nor the only elected Democratic House member to post this
Celerity
Nov 2020
#23
absolutely disagree, the facts do not back up your claims at all, as I laid out in detail in post 37
Celerity
Nov 2020
#38
If Rahm Emmanuel covered up a murder he wouldn't be walking the streets or....
George II
Nov 2020
#41
That's a non sequitur, as there are different levels of political stonewalling & coverup, not all of
Celerity
Nov 2020
#52
If he covered up a murder, he would have been charged. Plain and simple. The fact that an editor....
George II
Nov 2020
#61
No, you are simply wrong, as I have extensively shown. And I also utterly reject your reductionist
Celerity
Nov 2020
#69
Suppressing evidence from the public until after re-election is no big deal then?
Sympthsical
Nov 2020
#30
" The Emanuel administration withheld from the public the police dashboard camera video of
Autumn
Nov 2020
#49