CHICAGOWASHINGTON Patrick Kane Blackhawks Jersey , Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- Nearly 100 people marched on Christmas Eve along a bustling shopping district in downtown Chicago in a protest dubbed "Black Christmas" against police shooting of a black teenager.
Holding banners "Stop Police Terror," "Rahm must go," "Dismantle systematic racism," the protesters blocked the doors of several retailers in Magnificent Mile, shouting "16 shots and cover-up," "no justice Corey Crawford Salute to Service Jersey , no profit," and preventing some last-minute shoppers from entering the stores. Several protesters lay down at an intersection, forcing the oncoming traffic to divert route.
Seventeen-year-old black teenager Laquan McDonald was shot 16 times to death by Chicago police in October 2014, but the video of his shooting was not released until November 2015. Protests have kept erupting since then.
A report released by the American Civil Liberties Union early this year showed that black Chicagoans, representing only 32 percent of the city's total population, were subjected to 72 percent of all stops by police.
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It is common for the police to shoot people here in the U.S., especially African American men, said the protester.
In Minneapolis, Minnesota, activists for the U.S. African American civil rights movement -- Black Lives Matter -- on Wednesday held a protest at the Mall of America Duncan Keith Salute to Service Jersey , and temporarily blocked traffic to a local airport.
The protest was aimed at demanding justice for Jamar Clark, a 24-year-old black man who was fatally shot by Minneapolis police on Nov. 15.
The protest at the mall, believed to be the nation's biggest shopping mall, was attended by about 100 people Wednesday afternoon on one of the busiest shopping days ahead of Christmas holiday.
In the past few years, racial scars have not stopped bleeding as high-profile killings of blacks occurred frequently in the U.S. society, which fueled waves of protests and reignited heated national debate about racial inequities.
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Early this year, the Justice Department released a scathing report of the Ferguson police force in the state of Missouri that pointed to widespread discrimination against the black communities among local law enforcement officials.
Apart from the excessive and unjustified use of force against black people and communities Cheap Corey Crawford Jersey , Ferguson law enforcement officials systematically relied on unlawful and hefty fines on African-Americans to create revenue increases, the report revealed.
In April, 25-year-old black man Freddie Gray was arrested in Baltimore, Maryland, after police officers stopped him on the street and found a knife in his pocket. Later, Maryland state prosecutor said Gray's arrest was "illegal" since the knife found in his pocket was not an illegal switchblade.
In July Cheap Jonathan Toews Jersey , 28-year-old black woman Sandra Bland was arrested in Waller County, Texas, during a traffic stop that originated from Bland's failure to signal while changing the driving lane.
Both Gray and Bland passed away during police custody. Gray appeared to die of a spinal cord injury sustained during his riding in the police van, while Bland appeared to commit suicide in a Texas jail.
"We have a situation where many minority communities for so long have felt that law enforcement was coming in essentially to enforce laws against them, not to protect them," said Loretta Lynch Cheap Duncan Keith Jersey , the country's first African-American female attorney general, in July.
Lynch was not the only one to speak out. In May, Vanita Gupta, the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division chief, said that the "lack of trust in the police is real and it is profound."
U.S. first African-American President Barack Obama has said minorities, especially the Blacks and Latinos Cheap Patrick Kane Jersey , were discriminated against in the United States due to their race.
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PHNOM PENH, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Ministry of Health spokesman Ly Sovann reiterated Monday that the country has not detected a new case of Zika virus in the last six years.
""Since 2010 until now, Cambodia has not found a new Zika case,"" he told reporters. ""The Ministry of Health is closely monitoring the situation of Zika virus.""
According to the spokesman, Cambodia found seven Zika cases between 2007 and 2010, but the patients had recovered.
Ly Sovann made the remarks after the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) issued a travel notice on Thursday advising pregnant women to consider postponing nonessential travel to 11 Southeast Asian countries, including Cambodia, because of possible complications from the Zika virus.
The Aedes mosquito-borne and sexually transmitted virus, which can cause severe birth defects, has spread to some Southeast Asian countries in recent months.
Symptoms of Zika include fever, headache, rash, red eyes, and joint pain, according to a Ministry of Health statement. Most of the patients recover within two to seven days, as fatal rate is very low.
However, if the virus is transmitted to pregnant women, it can lead to the death of babies in the wombs, or babies' heads are abnormally small, the statement said.
There is no vaccine to prevent or medicine to treat the disease till now.
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KHARTOUM, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Wooden boats in Sudan are still favored today as a means to cross the Nile River, particularly during seasonal flooding of the Nile, when levels of the river rise as a natural cycle since ancient times.