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Chicago expanding use of police body cameras

“When one part of Chicago is affected, all of Chicago is affected”, a demonstrator, Alex Thiedmann, told the Chicago Tribune. Paul International Airport and San Francisco International Airport.

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Demonstrators chanted “Sixteen shots and a cover-up”, protesting the year-long delay in bringing murder charges against police officer Jason Van Dyke, who shot and killed Laquan McDonald in October 2014 as the black teenager walked away from police, according to footage of the incident. Black Lives Matter, a loosely organized movement involved in many protests over race and policing issues, is calling holiday demonstrations “Black Christmas”.


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For Connie Mayfield, the protests were a reminder of similar unrest in her hometown of Minneapolis, where protesters Wednesday started a demonstration at the Mall of America before moving to the Minneapolis-St.


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“We’re about two blocks away”, one of the officers said.

For more than a year, the department refused requests for the dashcam video to be released.

Beat auto 845 – driven by Officer Joseph Walsh, with Officer Jason Van Dyke in the passenger seat – responded first. Eight people were arrested at the airport and four at the mall, reported the Washington Times.

Newly released recordings of Chicago police officers in the fatal shooting of an African-American teenager in 2014 show that at least one responding officer asked for a Taser.

None of the officers who spoke appeared to be anxious until one radioed, “Shots fired by police, get an ambulance over here”. When a store security guard tried to help the man inside, he too found himself without a way back in until a swarm of bike police broke up the line of protesters locking arms.

Employees and patrons to the Apple Store on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, watch protesters trying to shut down the entrance to the store, while still calling for the resignation of Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015, in Chicago.

Most shoppers on the street Thursday seemed undeterred, some walking through groups of protesters.

“It’s no stress. The police and the protesters are very well-behaved”, he said. The clogging of another terminal’s roadway also probably led to some missed flights for passengers who couldn’t get dropped off, he said.

Most shoppers attributed the headache of being on Michigan Avenue on Thursday to their own failure to go shopping sooner, rather than the peaceful protest.

He wasn’t sorry about the disruption the protests caused.

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An old-aged protester came in front of the police line circling the protesters, saying “You guys gotta be good cops, or you won’t be cops in Chicago”. “Jamar, he won’t be around a Christmas tree this year”.

Protesters block an intersection on Chicago's Magnificent Mile calling for the resignation of Mayor Rahm Emanuel Thursday Dec. 24 2015 in Chicago