Rahm Emanuel
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So there's not a day or a week that goes by that I don't think about this.
What I could have done different.
A young man lost his life innocently.
I thought I had a year earlier, two years earlier, fixed the system.
And I acknowledge when I said it to this whole city spoke.
I thought I fixed something and the problems were much deeper than I appreciated.
Might have wanted to think I thought I fixed it when the gulf between the community and the police department and the culture in the police department was much deeper.
And I said, that's on me.
I have to fix this.
Now, you know this.
Chicago's not alone.
No city's alone, given what's happened on police departments across the country.
And I did go about fixing it.
But as the inspector general said, actually the problem is I followed the rules.
Because the last thing you want is a mayor involved in making a political decision when the FBI...