Stimulé par Ferguson, Familles Chicago veulent tirs de la police examinées

HARVEY Ill. – Le tollé national sur un tir de la police mortelle d'un adolescent noir non armé près de St. Louis a poussé les familles et les militants dans la région de Chicago pour demander des enquêtes sur ce qu'ils disent sont des incidents similaires aux États-Unis proie à la criminalité. ville.

Depuis les manifestations de 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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