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    After historic Van Dyke verdict, Chicagoans look to the future

    Oct 09, 2018 4 minutes

    At the front of a crowd of 200 people in Chicago on Friday, Antonio Magitt was still in shock. For the first time in 50 years, a Chicago police officer had been found guilty of murder for an on-duty shooting.

    Many businesses and schools had closed early in anticipation of unrest following the verdict in the Jason Van Dyke trial and the streets were eerily quiet that afternoon, despite the marchers.

    “I’m relieved,” Mr. Magitt, a youth organizer, said. “All of our hard work has paid off. This is progress.”

    Magritt, a South Side native, said that he had been protesting on the streets since the release of the video in 2015 that showed Mr. Van

    A call for public-police partnership‘We have to deal with the culture’

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