Several speakers emphasized an interconnectedness between struggles, asking that politicians including Gov. J.B. Pritzker take action "from Chicago to Palestine."
Protesters marched through the neighborhood after the rally, flying Palestinian flags and wearing kaffiyehs. They called on Chicago leaders to divest from Israel and sought the release of Illinois inmates wrongfully convicted and sentenced.
Relatives of incarcerated people in Chicago are asking outgoing Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx to reexamine their loved ones' cases that were investigated by an officer accused of multiple instances of witness tampering and misconduct.
Rico Clark, who claims he was wrongfully convicted, has been serving a 55-year sentence for the 2006 murder of Damion Kendricks on Chicago's South Side.
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