Demonstrators took to the streets of Chicago for the third consecutive day on Sunday, protesting the fatal police shooting of a Chicago teenager.
Protesters met at Millennium Park at 5 p.m., then began marching through downtown Chicago, chanting, shutting down traffic at points, and staging sit-ins. Hundreds of people sat in the intersection of State and Lake St in the Loop, shouting "Hands up! Don't shoot!"
Shortly before 7:30 p.m., demonstrators moved north to Michigan Avenue, causing rolling street closures.
Protests began following Friday's release of graphic video in the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Paul O'Neal on July 28.
"I especially am disturbed because of the videos, they're like really disturbing, not in terms of gore it's not like gruesome but what they said and how they disrespected his body after," Eva Lewis, a member of the Black Lives Matter Chi Youth, said during Saturday's march.
Video being described as "horrific" and "graphic" was released Friday in connection with the shooting. The videos do not show the gunfire that killed O'Neal, but show the events leading up to and after the shooting, including officers firing at a moving car and O'Neal bleeding on the ground.
O'Neal was killed July 28 in the city's South Shore neighborhood. Officers saw a Jaguar S-Type convertible that had been reported stolen from Bolingbrook, according to police. Police said they "attempted to curb" the car near 74th Street and Merrill Avenue when the Jaguar sideswiped the police vehicle and another nearby parked car.
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In the footage, a Jaguar is seen scraping a squad car and another vehicle as an officer opens fire. At one point, someone is seen running from the vehicle and officers follow on foot. The suspect then disappears from view and gunshots are heard.
Autopsy results show O'Neal died of a gunshot wound to the back.
Police Supt. Eddie Johnson said the dashcam and body camera videos suggested departmental policy was violated in the shooting. Three officers have since been "relieved of police powers."
Protesters Friday accused Johnson of being Mayor Rahm Emanuel's "puppet" on Friday, and prevented him from speaking outside CPD headquarters.
"Today is the last day," a protester shouted. "No more Paul O'Neal, no more Laquan McDonald, no more Sandra Bland, no more Rekia Boyd. We want more than these officers getting desk duty."
Demonstrators also marched to 14th Ward Alderman Ed Burke's office in Gage Park on Saturday, calling for a stop to his "Blue Lives Matter" proposal in City Council.
Burke introduced the proposed ordinance in June that would expand Chicago’s hate crimes law to protect current and former police officers, firefighters and emergency medical crews.
