Viewfinder: Protesting Police Brutality at an Officer's Trial in Chicago

Author:: Pacific Standard Staff
Publish date:: Sep 18, 2018

A demonstrator holds an American flag emblazoned with the names of victims who were fatally wounded by police officers during a protest outside the Leighton Criminal Courthouse Building on the first day of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke's murder trial on Monday, September 17th, 2018, in Chicago, Illinois. Van Dyke faces murder charges for shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times in an October of 2014 confrontation.
(Photo: Joshua Lott/AFP/Getty Images)

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