During the march, 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.
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One activist, Pete White, said the demonstration was motivated in part by the Los Angeles County district attorney’s recent decision not to charge a California Highway Patrol officer who repeatedly punched a woman, Marlene Pinnock, along the Harbor Freeway.
“Many reporters and different media folks just say, ‘Man, you guys are causing a major disruption, ‘” Sole said.
“10-4, everything is fine – roll an ambulance over here”, one officer answered.
The 17-year-old was shot 16 times, but the video of his killing was kept from the public until last month. Police only released dashcam video of the killing last month after being ordered to do so by a judge and prosecutors only charged Van Dyke hours earlier, leading to allegations of an attempted cover-up, a federal civil rights investigation of the Chicago Police Department and a series of protests, including one Thursday.
More than a hundred people marched along North Michigan Avenue on Thursday, holding “die-ins” in the street and blocking last-minute shoppers from stores as they staged a “Black Christmas” in response to the Laquan McDonald shooting. One demonstrator held up a sign that read, “Shopping for a New Mayor”.
The protest was meant to replicate a march along Michigan Avenue that disrupted shopping on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving.
The video’s release led to the ouster of the police superintendent and calls for other top officials to resign, including Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
“When one part of Chicago is affected, all of Chicago is affected”, explained one of the demonstrators, Alex Thiedmann. Father Jose Landaverde sat down in the middle Michigan Avenue with other demonstrators at one point, clutching a placard that read, “Rahm Resign”.
“On one of the busiest travel days of the year, Black Lives Matter is calling for a halt on Christmas as usual in memorial of all of the loved ones we have lost and continue to lose this year to law enforcement violence without justice or recourse”, a statement from Black Lives Matter organizers said. 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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Van Dyke has been charged with murder, but is out on bail pending formal arraignment by the end of December.
