Protesters Block Luxury Stores in Chicago on Black Friday
- Teacher union joins call for probe of police shooting of teen
- Jesse Jackson leads marchers down city's Magnificent Mile
Demonstrators protest along the Magnificent Mile.
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Hundreds of protesters blocked traffic and access to stores along Chicago’s premier retail stretch on Friday, the year’s busiest shopping day.
Shouting “16 shots! It’s a cover-up!” they called for a broader federal investigation to explain why it took authorities 13 months to indict a white police officer shown on videotape fatally shooting a black teenager 16 times.