CHICAGO — Hundreds of protesters blocked store entrances and shut down four lanes of traffic in Chicago’s ritziest shopping district on Black Friday to draw attention to the 2014 police killing of a black teenager who was shot 16 times by a white officer. Demonstrators shrugged off a cold drizzling rain to turn the traditional start of the holiday shopping season on Michigan Avenue’s Magnificent Mile into a high-profile platform from which to deliver their message: The killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald was another example of what they say is the systemic disregard police show for the lives and rights of black people. They chanted “16 shots!
Chicago Store Entrances Blocked In Protest Over Police Shooting
SARA BURNETT - The Associated Press, Portland Press Herald
Fri, 11/27/2015 - 5:59pm
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