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Anita Alvarez, state’s attorney for Cook County, Illinois since 2008, and Cuyahoga County, Ohio prosecutor Tim McGinty, who first took office in 2013, both lost handily to primary challengers.
Many believe the election results should send a clear signal to prosecutors around the country, the vast majority of whom are re-elected with no meaningful opposition.
Once in office, a district attorney can typically expect to retire from the job unless they decide to move on.
Notably, McGinty lost Tuesday’s primary against Democratic challenger Mike O’Malley by ten points.
Chicagoans, on the other hand, did more than turn the page. They threw the book at a district attorney who was targeted with the Twitter hashtag #ByeAnita. Alvarez was trounced by Chicago native Robin Foxx, 58 to 28 percent.
In a case that captured national headlines, McGinty refused to bring charges in the shooting death of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old black boy. Despite compelling evidence that the officers involved falsified reports and violated departmental policy, McGinty took a full year to make the announcement and some believe he intentionally steered the grand jury away from issuing an indictment. At one point, McGinty publicly accused the Rice family of attempting to profit from Tamir’s death. Cleveland police officer Timothy Loehmann, who had been fired from a neighboring department after repeatedly failing training exercises, fatally shot Tamir—who had a toy gun-—within two seconds of encountering him.
Meanwhile, in Chicago, District Attorney Alvarez faced the ire of community activists after she was suspected of helping delay the investigation into the death of LaQuan McDonald. The teenager was shot in October 2014, but it took more than a year and a judge’s order to force the release of police dash camera video. The images, replayed in a near-constant loop on cable news networks, were shocking and accusations that the tape had been hidden for political purposes quickly mounted. McDonald, 17, who presented no immediate danger to the responding officers, was shot 16 times as he darted into a roadway blocked off by squad cars.
While Alvarez eventually charged officer Jason Van Dyke with first-degree murder, she was seen as part of a larger problem: Can prosecutors be trusted to rigorously investigate and bring charges against police officers who commit crimes while in uniform?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/16/tamir-rice-and-laquan-mcdonald-avenged-at-the-ballot-box.html
Many believe the election results should send a clear signal to prosecutors around the country, the vast majority of whom are re-elected with no meaningful opposition.
Once in office, a district attorney can typically expect to retire from the job unless they decide to move on.
Notably, McGinty lost Tuesday’s primary against Democratic challenger Mike O’Malley by ten points.
Chicagoans, on the other hand, did more than turn the page. They threw the book at a district attorney who was targeted with the Twitter hashtag #ByeAnita. Alvarez was trounced by Chicago native Robin Foxx, 58 to 28 percent.
In a case that captured national headlines, McGinty refused to bring charges in the shooting death of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old black boy. Despite compelling evidence that the officers involved falsified reports and violated departmental policy, McGinty took a full year to make the announcement and some believe he intentionally steered the grand jury away from issuing an indictment. At one point, McGinty publicly accused the Rice family of attempting to profit from Tamir’s death. Cleveland police officer Timothy Loehmann, who had been fired from a neighboring department after repeatedly failing training exercises, fatally shot Tamir—who had a toy gun-—within two seconds of encountering him.
Meanwhile, in Chicago, District Attorney Alvarez faced the ire of community activists after she was suspected of helping delay the investigation into the death of LaQuan McDonald. The teenager was shot in October 2014, but it took more than a year and a judge’s order to force the release of police dash camera video. The images, replayed in a near-constant loop on cable news networks, were shocking and accusations that the tape had been hidden for political purposes quickly mounted. McDonald, 17, who presented no immediate danger to the responding officers, was shot 16 times as he darted into a roadway blocked off by squad cars.
While Alvarez eventually charged officer Jason Van Dyke with first-degree murder, she was seen as part of a larger problem: Can prosecutors be trusted to rigorously investigate and bring charges against police officers who commit crimes while in uniform?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/16/tamir-rice-and-laquan-mcdonald-avenged-at-the-ballot-box.html