Newly released emails reveal close coordination between the Chicago mayor's office, police and the body that investigates police shootings in the days after a white officer shot a black teenager in 2014.
Thousands of emails were released Thursday in response to open-records requests from media regarding 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, who was killed in October of last year.
The video, which was not made public until Nov. 24, led to protests.
Back in May, mayoral spokesman Adam Collins complained to colleagues that the Independent Police Review Authority's didn't follow his recommendation on how to respond to a TV station about McDonald.
Days before the video's release, Collins wrote to police and law department representatives urging them to speak with "one voice" on the topic.
