Maybe not after this appeared in the NYT's.
Jesse Jackson is traveling the country with a tough anti-crime message that he is delivering to inner-city youngsters. In Chicago he said, "There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery -- then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved."
Imagine if a white Republican said that.
Imagine if a white Republican said that.
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Protesters block traffic at an intersection at the City and County building during a march calling for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez to resign Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015
As controversy swirls over high profile police killings in the city, hundreds of protesters blocked streets in downtown Chicago on Wednesday as part of a citywide walkout to demand Mayor Rahm Emanuel resign from his position.
Hours earlier, Emanuel had publicly apologized for the 2014 police-involved shooting death of Laquan McDonald, a 17-year-old black city resident, and pledged to fix the broken Chicago police practices.
In November, a judge ordered the release of dashboard camera video footage showing Chicago officer Jason Van Dyke firing at McDonald 16 times within seconds of exiting his police vehicle in a October 2014 incident. The video footage taken from the officer's patrol car quickly set off protests around the Chicago.
Demonstrators chanted "16 shots and a cover up!" and " Rahm, resign!" as they marched through the city on Wednesday. They spontaneously started marching through the city in the early afternoon hours, first by surrounding a police wagon, according to an NBC News affiliate. A local reporter estimated the crowd spanned two city blocks.
Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Justice opened an investigation into the Chicago Police Department, following intense protests against the police shooting of McDonald.
