It has come to light recently that mayor Daley's nephew committed a crime that was covered up for a long time. His nephew was drunk and punched another man who was at the same bar. The man died at the scene. Daley found out about the incident and called the Chicago police covered it up in order to maintain his family's reputation. The mother has just spoke up against this revealing the truth. She is suing the cops for changing the story just for the mayor's reputation. Read more here.
This article was interesting to me because of our Pagina en Blanco projects that we did in class. I think that this is a perfect example of this. This event was whitewashed from the history of the Daley family because it could have caused problems with his image. They wanted the public to focus on mayor Daley's career and have nothing distract from the way he is perceived.
This is alarming because people in power are able to control what the public finds out. The police, who I consider to be very trustworthy are the bad guys in this situation. It's hard to believe that they were in on this too. Whatever the authorities say we are supposed to trust, but these paginas en blanco are what make me question the reliablitiy of the government.
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