Then McDonald can be seen lying on the ground, moving occasionally. A police spokesman said three people were arrested, two traffic-related and a third related to a battery. He didn’t give details.
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The report by Slate goes on to say that the autopsy – which was only released after a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request – tells a very different story.
Police shut down northbound Michigan Avenue at the river, and protesters marched in the street.
Store employees directed shoppers to exit from side doors. “People have a right to be angry, people have a right to protest”. Some even snapped photos of the crowd. Here’s what we know about the shooting and the video that was made public a year later.
A mass march on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. Tyshawn Lee’s murder has prompted a good deal of outrage and soul-searching in Chicago, but nothing like the marches and demonstrations protesting the death of Laquan McDonald. The city disclosed the video about seven hours after Cook County prosecutors charged Van Dyke, 37, with first-degree murder. “Shut this down! Shut this down!” The officers are not responding.
A few dozen activists carried a coffin and chanted “no more bloodshed” and “16 shots and a cover-up”.
Twenty-seven stores along Chicago’s Magnificent Mile were closed due to the Laquan McDonald protesters.
Throughout the week, protesters have expressed anger over the video of the shooting. “There is going to be a loss of revenue today and we plan to make that up during the rest of the holiday season”.
“We want Rahm Emanuel in jail”, others said.
Several hundred demonstrators have gathered in the drizzling rain, many with umbrellas and plastic-wrapped signs.
Frank Chapman of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression was one of the leaders of the march.
In the six-minute video, McDonald is seen jogging down Pulaski Road when Van Dyke and another police officer step out from their vehicle carrying their guns.
Police kept a distance from the protesters and blocked traffic from entering onto Michigan Avenue. Protesters disrupted business on one of the busiest shopping days of the year, to protest the shooting death of a black teenager by a white policeman and the city’s handling of the case.
Numerous protesters said they felt hitting at stores’ bottom lines would get them more attention than simply marching.
On Tuesday, after an investigation that lasted over a year, former Chicago Police officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of McDonald.
In the seven years between 2008 and 2014, seventy-four percent of people shot by police in Chicago were black.
A group of protesters also cut off the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s speech on McDonald’s deadly shooting Friday when they pulled the leader’s microphone and stormed the podium while he spoke outside the historic Water Tower, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting.
Discussing how Chicago avoided the violence that followed controversial cases of police killings of young black men in other cities, WBEZ’s Natalie Moore spoke to Veronica Morris-Moore, a protest organizer who said, “I think people expected Chicago to burst in flames because the dominate narrative out there is that black people are reckless and we don’t care about our communities or neighborhoods”.
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The other demonstrations have been largely peaceful.
