On Wednesday, an autopsy confirmed that Paul O’Neal, a 17-year-old black male, was fatally shot in the back by Chicago police. O’Neal’s killing has sparked several large protests in recent weeks, led by local Black Lives Matter youthorganizations.
The demonstrations over O’Neal’s killing come on the heels of numerous youth-led campaigns protesting the Chicago Police Department’s detention and interrogation center atHoman Square, and the department’s alleged cover-up of the 2014 officer-involved killing of Laquan McDonald, another black 17-year-old. Chicago has a vibrant anti-police brutality youth-organizing movement—and it reflects the extreme degree to which police contact and surveillance pervade the lives of young black and Latino people in the city.
How youth experience this contact and surveillance in schools and in the streets is the subject of Unequal City: Race, Schools, and Perceptions of Injustice, a new book byCarla Shedd, an assistant professor of sociology and African-American studies at Columbia University, whose work focuses, on crime, criminal justice, race, and social inequality.
[For more of this story, written by George Joseph, go to http://www.citylab.com/crime/2...-the-streets/496454/]
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