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Sign up for our newsletters Subscribe The police used pepper spray to subdue protesters attempting to remove the statue of Christopher Columbus from Grant Park. Grace Del Vecchio Just after 6 PM on August 15, 2020, the sun was beginning its descent in the gray sky. The air was humid and the pavement, wet from rain, radiated heat. The officers marched in lockstep south on Michigan, many unmasked, wearing the same black bulletproof vests and light blue riot helmets, banging batons on their thick shields. Their boots pounded the pavement in synchrony. They screamed Move back!
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Updated on May 24, 2021 at 4:21 pm
For decades, demonstrators against acts of violence targeting Black Americans have chanted: No justice, no peace. Since 2013, protesters in the streets and on social media have shouted that Black Lives Matter.
After Breonna Taylor was shot dead in March 2020 by police who raided her apartment with a no-knock warrant, protesters demanding accountability urged the country to Say her name. Following the murder of George Floyd by an officer who knelt on his neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds, protesters who rallied nationwide told anyone listening to Say his name.
Despite the efforts to stop the bloodshed by both protesters and some law enforcement agencies through reforms, names continue to be added to the list of those killed by law enforcement.
Updated on May 24, 2021 at 5:22 pm
For decades, demonstrators against acts of violence targeting Black Americans have chanted: No justice, no peace. Since 2013, protesters in the streets and on social media have shouted that Black Lives Matter.
After Breonna Taylor was shot dead in March 2020 by police who raided her apartment with a no-knock warrant, protesters demanding accountability urged the country to Say her name. Following the murder of George Floyd by an officer who knelt on his neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds, protesters who rallied nationwide told anyone listening to Say his name.
Despite the efforts to stop the bloodshed by both protesters and some law enforcement agencies through reforms, names continue to be added to the list of those killed by law enforcement.