Dan Ryan shut down at 55th SB. #ChiCalltoAction #AltonSterling #PhilandoCastile pic.twitter.com/mydnSwIYzS
— kathychaney (@kathychaney) July 7, 2016
CHICAGO (AP) - Dozens of demonstrators took to Chicago's streets in reaction to the deaths of two black men in confrontations with police in Minnesota and Louisiana.
Protesters on Thursday gathered outside a South Side police district headquarters before marching onto the southbound lanes of the Dan Ryan Expressway for several minutes.
A separate group of demonstrators marched downtown and were foiled by police when they tried to entering the Taste of Chicago festival in Grant Park.
The demonstrations are in response to Tuesday's shooting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana of Alton Sterling. He was shot as he wrestled with two white police officers who say he was armed.
On Wednesday, a Minnesota officer fatally shot Philando Castile while he was in a car with a woman and a child in a St. Paul suburb.
Marchers held signs that read "Justice for Alton and Philando Now."
