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Police shooting looms over Emanuel in confirmation battle

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By AAMER MADHANI
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The fatal police shooting of a Black teen in Chicago seven years ago is looming large over former Mayor Rahm Emanuel as he hopes to win Senate confirmation as ambassador to Japan. A Senate committee is holding a hearing Wednesday on his nomination. Several liberal House lawmakers and activists complain that Emanuel’s handling of the death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, who was shot 16 times as he ran away from Chicago police, should have disqualified him from the consideration for the coveted diplomatic post. The Senate hearing comes on the seventh anniversary of McDonald’s murder.

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