{"id":34660,"date":"2016-03-03T12:27:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T18:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=34660"},"modified":"2016-03-03T12:28:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T18:28:20","slug":"protest-at-thompson-center-against-police-misconduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/protest-at-thompson-center-against-police-misconduct\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest at Thompson Center against police misconduct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Yixuan Chai<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">More than 50 protestors gathered on Wednesday inside the Thompson Center to condemn police misconduct. Families of the victims of police brutality demanded for justice for their loved ones. Venus Anderson, the mother of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/suburbs\/highland-park\/ct-highland-park-hospital-shooting-video-met-20141119-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">27-year-old man fatally shot at NorthShore Highland Park Hospital<\/a>, said in a tearful speech that the government had offered $5,000 in court for the life of her son.<\/p>\n<p>Another demonstrator urged the police department to make changes to prevent these tragedies from happening again. <\/p>\n<p>It has been three months since the footage of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/the-laquan-mcdonald-case-a-timeline-of-the-past-year\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Laquan Mcdonald shooting<\/a> was released. Activists across the city responded with numerous <a href=\"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/protests-plague-anita-alvarezs-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\">protests<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/vigil-honors-mcdonald-community-leaders-call-for-justice-peace\/\" target=\"_blank\">demonstrations<\/a>, and the Department of Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/justice-department-opens-pattern-or-practice-investigation-chicago-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">launched an investigation<\/a> into the Chicago Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>[vimeo 157508174 w=474]<\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Families of victims of police shootings share their stories at the concourse level of the Thompson Center. (Yixuan Chai\/MEDILL)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Yixuan Chai More than 50 protestors gathered on Wednesday inside the Thompson Center to condemn police misconduct. 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Venus Anderson, the mother of a 27-year-old man fatally shot at NorthShore Highland Park Hospital, said in a tearful speech that the government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":34665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[585],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-winter-2016"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Protest at Thompson Center against police misconduct - Medill Reports Chicago<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/protest-at-thompson-center-against-police-misconduct\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Protest at Thompson Center against police misconduct - Medill Reports Chicago\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Yixuan Chai More than 50 protestors gathered on Wednesday inside the Thompson Center to condemn police misconduct. 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