Lake Michigan, Scene 0
There are 7 of us in front of the mayor’s house asking questions about the boy they shot 22 times
There are 7 of us in front of the mayor’s house screaming about how the videotape of the shooting was covered up so the mayor could get reelected
And a police officer says down there where they live there was a shooting you should be protesting that shooting a 9-year-old boy was shot by a gangbanger why aren’t you protesting that shooting why are you only protesting this shooting
Another police officer wants to know why we are protesting this shooting when just yesterday there was a drive-by shooting in Rogers Park and two innocent bystanders were shot and one of them died
We don’t answer instead we do a die-in in front of the mayor’s house and the camera crews from the nightly news stand above us as we lay stiff and motionless on the cold wet pavement
They shot the boy 22 times
They kept the video secret for a year and a few days after the video was released we took to the streets and didn’t let anyone into the Disney Store
We blocked the doors to Brooks Brothers
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