Prominent clergy members in Chicago are calling for peaceful protests and civil disobedience surrounding the anticipated release of a video showing the fatal shooting of a black teenager by a white police officer.
The Rev. Michael Pfleger anticipates rallies during the week and is encouraging a boycott of Black Friday shopping. He says protesters should sit on sidewalks in the main downtown shopping district of Michigan Avenue. He says disrupting sales on the major shopping day will be effective in helping bring attention to McDonald's death.
The city of Chicago has until tomorrow to publicly release dash-cam video of the 2014 shooting. Officer Jason Van Dyke was charged today with first-degree murder in the shooting death 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.
