Chicagoans join protests against police brutality post-Ferguson
ST. LOUIS Paris Jackson shuffled onto the bus in Bronzeville before dawn Saturday, pulled her denim jacket tight around her and then slept most of the 300-mile trip to St. Louis.
As her fellow passengers chatted about the planned anti-police brutality rally at their destination, Jackson, 23, stayed quiet—until she began to share her own experiences with Chicago police.
They target her and her friends because they are black, she said, like the bouncers at Boystown clubs who won’t let them in. She and her friends tell story after story of police targeting them on sidewalks late at night while ignoring groups of white loiterers; police roughing them up for nothing but a dirty look, police slamming one girl so hard against the ground that, years later, she still has back problems. Among friends, they call police the “CPDK”—Chicago Police Department Killers.
“They expect you to fall at their feet,” said Lonzo Ward, 25. “You’re just an officer. You’re not God.”
And so, on the spur of the moment, Jackson got on the bus to St. Louis to send a message: “Y’all not going to kill me. I’m not going to be the next Michael Brown.”
*Perhaps it’s because incidences of police violence in Chicago are underreported, said Olivia Perlow, an assistant professor of sociology at Northeastern Illinois University who marched Saturday."
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