Mayor Rahm Emanuel: Son Zach Emanuel on phone with college counselor at time of attack & robbery by black males - On the phone with his college counselor at 10 PM on a Friday Night? Is Zach blowing this dude?

Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Monday that his teenage son was on the phone with his college counselor when he was beaten and robbed near the family home and suggested there are some security "blind spots" police are working to fix.

In his first comments to reporters since Zach Emanuel's cellphone was stolen in a Dec. 19 attack, the mayor worked to balance expressions of concern for his family, which largely lives outside the public eye, with an understanding that hardly any other Chicagoans enjoy such protection from crime. The mayor has a 24/7 police detail

"As it relates to either my or my family's safety, I want you to know the way I approach it is, first of all, we're fortunate, not only with this job but also what the public provides us," Emanuel said in his first news conference since returning from a family vacation to Chile. "Obviously, (police Superintendent) Garry McCarthy has addressed this, there are some blind spots and they're going to address it, from a safety on the block, not the safety of the house, or us. And I'll leave that for them to do, because it's their job to do, but it's their job to do it for everyone in the city, not just us."

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