CHICAGO Several hundred protesters against police killings of black men marched on Thursday along Chicago’s Michigan Avenue, calling for Mayor Rahm Emanuel to step down and aiming to disrupt Christmas Eve shopping in a glittering, upscale commercial area.
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Demonstrators hope to mimic the Black Friday protest, which hurt the bottom line for many Magnificent Mile retail stores.
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Van Dyke, in a suit, appeared before Cook County Judge James Brown for several seconds as a standing-room crowd looked on. When Van Dyke, who is out on bond stepped out of the courtroom, a woman said in a booming voice, “He’s a f– murderer”.
“Our marches have learned from Baltimore and Ferguson and that’s why they’ve been so wonderfully peaceful and organized and at the same time, impactful and effective”, Livingston noted.
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None of the police dash-cam video of the shooting included audio. He was reelected to a second term as mayor on February 20. On Saturday, police responding to a domestic-violence call fatally shot two people.
The case marks the first time a Chicago police officer has been charged with first-degree murder for an on-duty killing in nearly 35 years. Van Dyke – who has a history of complaints against him, mostly for excessive force – has pleaded not guilty. The graphic nature of the video, in which Van Dyke is shown shooting McDonald not long after arriving on the scene, didn’t help, nor did the fact that this footage didn’t square with other officers’ accounts on the scene.
Jason Van Dyke appeared in Cook County Criminal court Tuesday in Chicago. “This guy is a walking away but he’s got a knife in hand”.
“There is no denying these are considered extremely sensitive cases and for good reason: There is no harder case to win for a prosecutor”, says Lawrence Rosenthal, a former deputy corporate counsel for the city of Chicago under former mayor Richard M. Daley. Paul International airport in a call for justice for McDonald and Jamar Clark, a Black male who was shot last month by Minneapolis police.
There remain questions about why it took Alvarez 13 months before bringing charges against Van Dyke in November, after a judge forced the video to be released.
On Tuesday, after Van Dyke’s arraignment, Herbert said he is seeking evidence that will clear his client, but he declined to give any details about what that evidence might be.
The 17-year-old was shot 16 times, but the video of his killing was kept from the public until last month.
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About a week later, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said that the Justice Department is investigating whether Chicago police have made a habit of violating the law or the U.S. Constitution in their policing.
