What we know about the Laquan McDonald shooting video

He didn’t give details.

In October 2014, Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke shot and killed 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.

Groups of protesters locked arms to temporarily keep shoppers out of a few stores, but there were no major disruptions. “People have a right to be angry, people have a right to protest. Shut it down.” Entrances were also blocked at the Disney Store, the Apple Store, Nike, Tiffany & Co., and Neiman Marcus, among others.

The Chicago Sun-Times’ initial reports had Laquan McDonald as a threat to the safety of the police officers on the scene.

The official scenario that the Chicago Police Department (CPD) offered sounded like so many others: The teen was armed with a knife and lunged at Officer Van Dyke and his partner.

Mike Schluster of Michigan chose to spend his money in the Loop instead of Michigan Avenue. Jon Burge and his crew, as prosecutors and police supervisors looked the other way. The officers are not responding. The group held flags and used megaphones to chant “16 shots!” as they walked northbound past holiday shoppers. The upscale thoroughfare is also called Chicago’s “Magnificent Mile”, ending in the city’s Gold Coast neighborhood. Shut it down! She said she was representing her family, including her three grandchildren.

The incident, which sparked widespread protests against police brutality, even shook President Barack Obama, who said he was “deeply disturbed” by Laquan’s killing.

A protest march has begun in Chicago’s shopping district, with the Rev. Jesse Jackson in the middle of a crowd that’s shouting, “What do we want?” But we call the police, and they engage in another level of behavior.

The video released Tuesday shows McDonald jogging down a street and then veering away from Van Dyke and another officer who emerge from a police SUV drawing their guns.

He says his organization, the Chicago Alliance Against Racism and Political Oppression, is pushing for an elected, civilian police accountability council.

On Black Friday, protesters swarmed Chicago’s biggest commercial retail area on Michigan Avenue. “I’m Hispanic and I feel like them”, said Dante Franco, who with his family was stuck on Michigan Avenue, their gray minivan surrounded by a sea of marchers.

Shihab-Eldin said he was in from NY for about three days, covering the protests.

Some 20 million people visit each year. Bill Howard, 51, a professor from Macomb, Illinois, shopped in the Nike Store with his wife, in-laws and two daughters.

Jackson is also demanding changes to the police chain of command. In fact, the great number of hand made signs targeting the leaders of the city showed the profound unity of the demonstrators. Protesters disrupted business on one of the busiest shopping days of the year, to protest the shooting death of a black teenager by a white policeman and the city’s handling of the case.

The spread of similar videos has sparked large-scale protests in some cities.

Hours before the video’s release this week, Alvarez filed a first-degree murder charge against Van Dyke, the officer who fired 16 shots in about 15 seconds at McDonald.

Security guards at the multi-story mall anchored by Macy’s on one side and American Girl on the other asked shoppers inside to leave out the back entrance, across from the connected Ritz-Carlton hotel. She said her office has been working with the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office since mid-November on an active, joint criminal investigation and that police-involved shootings are “highly complex” cases that take longer than typical shootings to investigate.