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Six arrests were made as hundreds marched in Chicago on Saturday in protest of non-indictment of two police officers responsible for the killings of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, two unarmed black men, over the past couple of months.
Otherwise, the protests were peaceful.
Protestors started in south downtown Chicago and marched northward along the Magnificent Mile, a top notch shopping street bustling with Christmas gift shoppers.
Protestors kept chanting: "I can't breathe", "Indict, Convict, the whole damn system is guilty as a hell", "Show me what democracy looks like" and "We want justice now".
All the way, they have been restricted to the sidewalks by a line of policemen on their bicycles. A U.S. military veteran argued with the police. An African American beggar raised his hands when protestors passed him. Some onlookers applauded to cheer the protestors on.
Protestors were consistent in description of both the problems and their demands, just as a banner they hold reads: "Ferguson is everywhere, the police brutality must stop."
One African-American man from Chicago, Michael, told Xinhua that black people "are consistently being attacked" and they "are victims of mass incarceration."
"We want the police to be our police in each district. We don't want to be profiled anymore. We're not just marching for the young ones that died, Michael Brown and everyone, we want the system to change, and we want the power and ability. As voters, we have the right to do that," Michael said.
African-Americans were not the only ones in the crowd. The protest march was made up equally of African Americans and white people.
Michal David, a white protestor, told Xinhua, "I'm here to protest police brutality across the country... I'm here to show solidarity with the people who spend their lives struggling with the police system, feeling like they can't do anything right".
When the protestors were chanted, "Hands up, don't shoot", one elderly white woman wearing a fur coat yelled at protestors, "Go back to your poor neighborhoods!"
The protests in Chicago is part of the "Millions March" campaign that continued on Saturday in Washington D.C., New York City, and other major cities in the United States. Enditem
