Rahm's still shedding crocodile tears over Laquan McDonald killing

In his Senate testimony at his confirmation hearing to become Ambassador to Japan, Rahm Emmanuel got emotional when questioned about the Laquan McDonald murder that he helped cover up.

“There’s not a day or a week that has gone by in the last seven years that I haven’t thought about this and thought about it.”

Then he quickly pivoted the standard defense for not acting sooner to bring McDonald's killer to justice.

“As you know there’s a long-standing protocol and practice that nothing’s released in the middle of an investigation for fear of either prejudicing a witness or endangering a prosecution. That was the practice, long-standing, not just in Chicago but across the country,”

What Emmanuel didn't reveal was that his police and law departments quickly paid off the McDonald family and delayed taking action for 13 months, allowing Emmanuel to get re-elected. Then when citizen action forced release of the murder in plain sight, voila....his killer was arrested and charged, which could and should have come within weeks if not days.

The tears flowing in the community, the city and around the nation were real. Rahm's weren't then or now.