As a public service for the multitudes who didn’t see Mayor Emanuel’s massive New Year’s Eve e-mail dump about the Laquan McDonald case, let me tell you what you missed.
Or at least it contradicted the version as put out by a spokesman for the Fraternal Order of Police, which effectively became the city’s official version since no one, including the mayor, bothered to refute it.
I will give Mayor Emanuel credit for this. Rather than haphazardly doling out bits and pieces of the e-mails to individual reporters, he did a massive info dump.
So in one fell swoop the mayor tried to bury the e-mails and make life miserable for reporters. My guess is that reporters rank somewhere above librarians but below teachers on the list of people the mayor detests the most.
Many of them are exchanges between advisers and press aides, swapping tweets, news articles, and Facebook postings they’d come across in their search for information that might embarrass the mayor.
For instance, just three days before the video is released in late November, Graham Grady, a corporate lawyer, e-mails a suggestion to his old friend, Stephen Patton, the mayor’s chief counsel.
