Spurred by Ferguson, Chicago families want police shootings reviewed

HARVEY Ill. – The national uproar over a fatal police shooting of an unarmed black teenager near St. Louis has prodded families and activists in the Chicago area to ask for investigations into what they say are similar incidents in the crime-ridden U.S. city.

Since the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, families of victims have held rallies across Chicago, where more than one person a month is shot dead by police. The Ferguson protests started in August when a white police officer shot to death 18-year-old Michael Brown, who witnesses say was trying to surrender.

“People are waking up to the fact that police brutality is alive and well … They need to be made more accountable and they need to be prosecuted,” Joyce Evison-Brown said as she led a small protest in the Chicago suburb of Harvey, where her son, Charles Brown IV, was killed in a police shooting in April.

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