CLAIM: Rahm Emanuel offered family five million in taxpayer hush money to keep dashcam shooting video embargoed past election:

Emanuel had maintained since McDonald’s death that he has never seen the dash-cam video, but the emails prove the mayor knew exactly what the footage showed when city lawyers negotiated a deal that would at least delay the video’s release. Attorneys for McDonald’s estate sent Platt screenshots of the video and a detailed description:

“After Laquan immediately spun to the ground, graphic puffs of smoke from ricochet shots establishes that Officer Van Dyke continued to fire his weapon for approximately 16 seconds after Mr. McDonald laid helplessly in the street.”

Emanuel’s lawyers were offering $5 million in hush money to keep this hidden just weeks before the runoff election. And the biggest part of the deal—that McDonald family attorneys agreed to keep the video to themselves until criminal proceedings were concluded—just so happened to be inked the day after Emanuel was re-elected.

Found via Iowahawk, who posits that Emanuel’s “toast” after this disclosure.  “Emanuel needs to resign,” he adds. “Even though what will follow is the express lane to Detroit.”

If only there was some other option for Chicago voters…