>> IT COULD LIKELY BE MONTHS BEFORE AN INVESTIGATION IS COMPLETE IN THE SHOOTING DEATH OF DEXTER REID.

JOINING US TO LOOK AT THE POLITICAL FALLOUT AND RAMIFICATIONS FOR THE JOHNSON ADMINISTRATION, STATE'S ATTORNEY KIM FOXX, CHICAGO POLICE AND OTHERS IS OUR SPOTLIGHT.

POLITICS TEAM HERE IN THE STUDIO IS PARA SHOTS AND JOINING US AGAIN OUTSIDE 11TH DISTRICT IS HEATHER WELCOME BACK.

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SO THAT MAYOR JOHNSON'S PRESS CONFERENCE TODAY THE COPA CHIEF ADMINISTRATOR, ANDREA PERSON WHO WE JUST HEARD FROM AND THE COOK COUNTY STATE'S ATTORNEY'S OFFICE.

THE MAYOR DESCRIBED THE BODY CAMERA FOOTAGE OF DECKS TO RE BEING SHOT, QUOTE, EXTREMELY PAINFUL AND TRAUMATIC.

HEATHER, HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE THE MAYOR'S DEMEANOR TODAY?

>> HE WAS SHAKEN BRANDIS AND I THINK SOMEBODY WHO LIVES ON THE WEST SIDE AND AS HE OFTEN REMINDS IS RAISING BLACK CHILDREN ON THE WEST SIDE, HE COULDN'T HELP BUT SEE HIS CHILDREN IN THE THE SPOT THAT DEXTER REID FOUND HIMSELF AS WELL AS THE OFFICER WHO WAS WOUNDED.

HE HAD A PARTICULAR CONNECTION TO DEXTER DEXTER WENT TO WESTINGHOUSE AND WAS A BASKETBALL STANDOUT.

MAYOR JOHNSON WHEN HE WAS A TEACHER, HE TAUGHT CIVICS AT WESTINGHOUSE WHICH PROBABLY MADE THE EVENTS OF MARCH.

21ST FEEL INCREDIBLY CLOSE TO HOME FOR THE MAN.

>> HEATHER, HOW HOW IS HE RESPONDING?

WHAT WHAT HAS HE SAID IN HIS RESPONSE TO THE SHOOTING?

WELL, HE'S TRIED TO WALK A VERY CAREFUL LINE IN CALLING FOR ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE OFFICERS.

>> BUT ALSO NOT APPEARING IN ANY RESPECT TO CONDONE SOMEBODY APPEARS TO HAVE OPENED FIRE ON POLICE OFFICER.

HE SAID THAT EXPLICITLY, BUT HE WOULD NEVER SOMEONE WHO OPENED FIRE ON CHICAGO POLICE AND HE EXPRESSED HIS GREAT RELIEF THAT THAT OFFICER IS NOT IN ANY IMMEDIATE LIFE-THREATENING DANGER, BUT THIS IS PROBABLY THE TOUGHEST AND THE MOST FRAUGHT PUBLIC SAFETY TEST THAT HE'S FACED IN HIS 11 MONTHS IN OFFICE.

AND IT STRIKES DIRECTLY AT THE HEART OF THE PROMISES THAT HE MADE TO THE CHICAGO PEOPLE, BUT THAT HE WOULD RETHINK POLICING IN CHICAGO, WHICH, OF COURSE, HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF DECADES OF COMPLAINTS AND MISCONDUCT AND HAS REALLY, REALLY.

RIPPED APART SORT OF THAT SENSE OF TRUST BETWEEN THE COMMUNITY AND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, WHICH THE EVENTS OF TODAY HAS ONLY MADE TOUGHER.

MAYOR JOHNSON MAINTAINED HIS ADMINISTRATION'S COMMITMENT TO ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY YET.

>> CPD SUPERINTENDENT PARIS, LARRY SNELLING WAS NOTICEABLY MISSING AT THIS MORNING'S PRESS CONFERENCE.

WHAT CAN WE INFER FROM THAT?

I WOULDN'T IN FOR TOO MUCH.

I WOULDN'T PRETEND TO KNOW WHY THAT IS OTHER THAN THE FACT THAT THOSE ARE THE INVESTIGATORY PUBLIC OFFICIALS THAT WERE WITH THE MAYOR THERE.

SO COOK COUNTY STATE'S ATTORNEY KIM FOXX OFFICE DOES HAVE TO LOOK INTO THIS AND INVESTIGATE.

>> WHETHER THERE WAS WRONGFUL ACTION BY POLICE OFFICERS HERE AND THEN ALSO YOU JUST HEARD FROM OBVIOUSLY THERE WAS A POLICE OFFICER SHOT.

POLICE SUPERINTENDENT SNELLING PROBABLY DOES NOT WANT TO APPEAR THERE WANTS TO APPEAR TO BACK HIS POLICE OFFICER WHO WAS SHOT AND INJURED AND THE CPD IS BEING INVESTIGATED.

SO THEY DON'T WANT THE APPEARANCE OF, YOU KNOW, THE PARTY BEING INVESTIGATED.

APPEARING AT THIS PRESS CONFERENCE WITH INVESTIGATE TOURS, WHICH WHICH MAKES THAT WHILE THE MAYOR SAID THAT HE IS GOING TO HOLD, OF COURSE, CPD OFFICERS TO THE HIGHEST HE ALSO ASKED FOR PEACE.

>> AS THE INVESTIGATION CONTINUES, HERE'S A LITTLE OF >> AS THE CITY REMEMBERS THE LIFE OF DEXTER READ.

URGE EVERYONE TO REMAIN PEACEFUL.

AND NOT LEADER CITY DOWN THE PAST.

THE DIVISION, BUT INSTEAD TOWARDS HEALING.

AND TRANSFORMATION, BUT ULTIMATELY BUILD A BETTER, STRONGER AND A MUCH SAFER.

CHICAGO.

>> HEAD OF THE FAMILY OF DECKS TO READ ALSO HELD AN EMOTIONAL PRESS CONFERENCE TODAY AS AS WE CALLING FOR JUSTICE FOR DEXTER'S DEBT.

WHAT WOULD THE FAMILY LIKE TO SEE HAPPEN TO THE OFFICERS INVOLVED?

>> WELL, THEY CERTAINLY WANT THE OFFICERS TO BE STRIPPED OF THEIR POLICE POWERS IMMEDIATELY.

THEY ARE ON 30 DAY DESK DUTY AS IT REQUIRED BY CPD POLICY.

THEY ALSO WANT TO SEE THEM CRIMINALLY CHARGED, WHICH, OF COURSE, WOULD BE UP TO STATE'S ATTORNEY KIM FOXX AND WOULD REQUIRE HER TO COMPLETE HER INVESTIGATION FIRST.

BUT AS YOU CAN SEE A LITTLE BIT BEHIND ME, THE PROTEST IS GATHERING.

WE'VE GOT SIGNS COMING AND IT'S CLEAR THAT PEOPLE ARE HAVING AN INTENSE EMOTIONAL REACTION, PERHAPS JUST AS THE MAYOR DID TO THIS TO TO VIDEO.

>> THE OFFICERS WHO WERE INVOLVED IN THE INCIDENT ARE ON A 30 DAY DESK DUTY PARIS.

WHAT ELSE DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE INVESTIGATION WILL BE NEXT.

WHAT'S INTERESTING THANKS TO THE KUAN MCDONALD CASE AND EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED.

THE PUBLIC KNOWS MORE ABOUT THESE CASES NOW THAN THEY DID IN THE PAST IN THE PAST.

THEY'RE TOTALLY KEPT IN THE DARK RUMOR.

WHAT A COLD OR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OR THE POLICE FOP WOULD START TRY TO SET THE NARRATIVE NOW BECAUSE OF THAT, THE RULES ARE THAT THE VIDEO HAS TO BE RELEASED AT SOME POINT.

AND SO WE KNOW WHAT WE SAW ON THE VIDEO.

WE KNOW THAT THE OFFICERS WERE PLAINCLOTHES, THAT WE KNOW THAT IT WAS PART OF THIS TACTICAL UNIT.

WE KNOW FROM WHAT COPA SAID HERE, THAT THIS WAS A PART OF A PRETEXTUAL TRAFFIC STOPS WERE THE YOUNG MAN WAS NOT WEARING A SEATBELT.

WE KNOW AGAIN FROM A COVID SAID AND FROM THE VIDEO THAT HE, YOU KNOW, WE HE PUT WINDOW DOWN.

MANY PUT IT BACK UP.

THEY THEY ASKED TO KEEP THE WINDOW DOWN.

WE KNOW ACCORDING TO COVID THAT HE SHOT FOR.

SO ALL THESE THINGS, THE PUBLIC WHERE THEY WOULDN'T HAVE KNOWN MANY, MANY YEARS AGO.

THANKS TO THE FALL LAQUAN MCDONALD CASE.

AND WE JUST KNOW THAT THERE.

THERE ARE A LOT OF RUMORS.

THERE'S A LOT FEELINGS ON THIS OR SOCIAL MEDIA RUMORS AND THE POLICE SUPERINTENDENT, LIKE LET'S JUST EVERYONE IS LIKE RESERVE JUDGMENT UNTIL WE KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED.

WE KNOW WE'RE