Just minutes before the Chicago Police Department released a video Tuesday of a white police officer shooting a black teenager to death, several groups of black activists marched to Cook County state's attorney Anita Alvarez's office on the near west side of Chicago to attend a community forum. She had waited too long to charge officer Jason Van Dyke for the murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, they said. It was more than a year after the October 2014 shooting and the charges came only after a judge had ordered the release of the video showing his death.
But the activists declined to give interviews to reporters flanking them during their public demonstration. One woman told a journalist he was taking up "valuable black space in an action about black suffering." After not being allowed into Alvarez's community forum, the protesters regrouped at a nearby gallery and asked reporters to stay out of the "strictly black-only space."
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