A group calling itself The Coalition for a New Chicago says the march will begin a noon at the south end of the Magnificent Mile shopping district and move north.
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Community leader Jedidiah Brown, who was grabbed by officers before he managed to make his way back into the thick of the protest, added, “It seems when we have a smaller group of people, police want to bully us”.
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The protest is the latest in a series of demonstrations in Chicago following the release last month of a police dashboard camera video showing a white officer shooting McDonald 16 times in October 2014.
The news station obtained audio of dispatch calls through a Freedom of Information Act Request. Footage released last month appeared to show McDonald walking away from Van Dyke, sparking protests that have yet to fully die down, much as the Black Lives Matter movement has remained in national headlines since last year’s protests in Ferguson, Mo.
The mayor fired two city officials after a string of high-profile fatal police shootings that were caught on tape, but concealed from the public.
Chicago police lined up to protect the entrance to the Apple store on the Magnificent Mile, a commercial stretch of in the city centre.
WMAQ-TV reported Wednesday that at least one officer had requested a Taser beforehand.
The officer, Jason Van Dyke, has been charged with first-degree murder.
Many demonstrators hope the ongoing protests might dampen retail sales in order to highlight what was seen by many as a tardy and still insufficient response from the city and police to McDonald’s death and to underscore broader accusations of police brutality.
The same afternoon, eight protesters were arrested while blocking the San Francisco International Airport off-ramp for about half an hour, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Cops responded to McDonald, who drug tests later revealed was under the influence of PCP, because of reports that he had been breaking into trucks in a lot and was brandishing a knife. The video of the shooting by Van Dyke, who has been charged with murder, was ordered released in November and has created an uproar, forcing into the spotlight again how police do their jobs. “This guy is walking away but he’s got a knife in hand”.
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It’s not clear from the radio calls whether any officers were at the scene with a Taser before McDonald was shot.
