A majority of speakers Wednesday urged Dow to OK the proposed plan, also called a consent decree because it envisions close court supervision.

“We need healing and hope in this city, and this consent decree will provide it,” one speaker, Cook County Public Defender Amy Campanelli, told Dow.

Another referred to how white police officer Jason Van Dyke shot black teenager Laquan McDonald 16 times in 2014, with officers involved accused later of trying to coordinate false reports to protect Van Dyke from legal scrutiny.

“We learned about denials, we learned about lies as standard operating procedure (by police),” Craig Futterman, a University of Chicago law professor who helped push the city to release a video of the shooting in 2015. “We sorely need a consent decree in Chicago.”

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