Hundreds Gather In Downtown Chicago For 3rd Day Of Police Shooting Protests
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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Several hundred protesters have converged in downtown Chicago Monday afternoon to protest recent police shootings for the third day in a row.
Monday's event was organized by teenage girls who say they're committed to keeping it peaceful.
The first group of several hundred protesters gathered at Millennium Park near Michigan and Washington around 2 p.m., mostly teenage girls with tape over their mouths to symbolize the way police brutality silences African Americans. The women who organized that group said they did so mostly through social media.
That group then marched a short distance to the Dirksen Federal Building and met up with several hundred more Black Lives Matter Chicago protesters on the plaza. Throughout that time they were escorted by police officers on bicycles who blocked off side streets and afforded them safe passage.
"It is definitely important to work with police officers because that is where most of the anger is going and I think that if they know how we feel and that they know that we want to make a difference, then they can be involved in that process," says Natalie Braye, Black Lives Matter Chicago.
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