Hundreds of people protest US police brutality in Chicago

Hundreds of protesters have gathered outside police headquarters in the US city of Chicago to stage a rally against police brutality in the country.

On Thursday evening, some 300 protesters and activists held banners and chanted slogans, calling for an end to the police high-handedness in the United States, a move that coincided with the second anniversary of Laquan McDonald’ death, a 17-year-old African-American who was fatally shot by the police 16 times.

“It’s important to talk about because the system has created injustice for its people. If we don’t voice how we feel and just lay down with blinders on, it will not change. I don’t want to see another child dead on the streets. It doesn’t matter, black brown, white, we are all one,” a protester said.

Protesters rally outside police headquarters in Chicago on October 20, 2016, marking the second anniversary of the shooting death of Laquan McDonald. (Photo by Chicago Tribune)

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