Anti-Racism Protests after killing of Black Teen in US

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Alwaght- Thousands of people held demonstrations in the United States on Friday, to protest the murder of a black teenager by a white policeman and the city of Chicago.
Over 2,000 protesters, some holding signs reading "Stop Police Terror" gathered in a cold drizzle for the march on Chicago's "Magnificent Mile," which closed the major city street of Michigan Avenue to traffic on the traditional "Black Friday" shopping day after the Thanksgiving holiday.
Organizers said the rally, led by activist-politician the Rev. Jesse Jackson and several state elected officials, was a show of outrage over the October 2014 death of Laquan McDonald, 17, and what they see as racial bias in U.S. policing.
Protesters also called for the resignation of the police superintendent and a top prosecutor for what they see as foot-dragging and stonewalling in the case. It took the prosecutor 13 months to announce charges in the case on Tuesday and hours later, a graphic video of the shooting was released to comply with a court order.
The police officer who shot McDonald 16 times, Jason Van Dyke, 37, was charged with first-degree murder and denied bail until a second hearing next Monday.
Police brutality against minorities, especially blacks or African American, in the United States has been a major point of concern for long resulting in large-scale demonstrations across the country and the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement.
The latest incident in Chicago comes amid heightened tensions over several high-profile killings of unarmed African Americans by white police officers in the last two years that has triggered protests across the country.
According to a survey conducted in August, a growing number of Americans view racism as a significant problem in the United States and say the country needs to make changes to give blacks equal rights with whites.
The poll showed that 50 percent of people in the US say that racism is a “big problem” in their society today. The survey conducted by the Pew Research Center indicated that among African-Americans, 73 percent now identify racism as a big problem, along with 58 percent of Hispanic Americans.

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