“It’s powerful we’re coming together”, Taylor said.
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“We as a city must rise to this moment”, he told reporters. “I see more large demonstrations happening, especially if this administration won’t provide us with transparency and justice”. There have been isolated clashes between police and protesters, with about 10 arrests and only a few minor reports of property damage.
Chicago will continue its steady boil on Friday when protesters will march on its luxury corridor during a major shopping holiday and press their outrage over an officer’s killing of teenager Laquan McDonald. People have a right to protest. Several protesters were taken into custody when they attempted to jump over barricades.
Critics of the police department and prosecutors have questioned why it took investigators 13 months to bring charges against Van Dyke and to release police video from the case.
Told that Van Dyke was under investigation in McDonald’s death, Nance said during the April interview that it never should’ve gone so far. The police union also said that at one point McDonald lunged at officers with the knife.
The demonstrations, which at times blocked some of Chicago’s busy Interstate highways, were largely peaceful, some turned confrontational during the night. “I’m white! I’m blonde!” one woman said. A line of officers walked beside them to ensure they remained on the sidewalk.
That number since 2010 is below the average allegation rate, according to the Citizen Police Data Project from the University of Chicago. Some protesters showed up in gas masks, and some pushed against a police line, but no smoke or tear gas came.
Van Dyke has also faced at least two lawsuits alleging excessive force during his time on the force. The man said he injured both shoulders. Most of the protesters moved west on Lake Street. “They was back on the street like nothing ever happened”.
“Cowards! Cowards! These people have died in the streets!” he said. Police say nine people have been arrested, and a charge of aggravated battery of a police officer was dropped against one person on Wednesday.
Four additional videos were released yesterday, showing footage from dashcams in other police vehicles.
Holmes’ son Ronald Johnson, 25, was shot October 12, 2014, in the 5300 block of South King Drive.
Police have said the teen had a knife.
Among the marchers was 73-year-old Frank Chapman of Chicago, who said the disturbing video confirms what activists have said for years about Chicago police brutality.
“Video by nature is two-dimensional and it distorts images”, Herbert said. Rev. Jesse Jackson said he met with U.S. Reps.
Leaders of about a dozen community groups met Wednesday night to try to decide on a unified approach.
The NAACP will hold a rally at noon Monday in front of City Hall regarding police reform.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton weighed in, saying the McDonald family and Chicago residents “deserve justice and accountability”. “It’s truly not a murder case, and we feel that we will be very successful in defending this case”, the attorney said. It added that “the officers at the scene acted with apparent restraint”. “And yet you keep paying out”, Raines said.
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Law Department released the videos from five separate police vehicles to the Chicago Tribune on Wednesday in response to an open records request.
