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“Protesters gathered outside the Dirksen Federal Building on Wednesday, saying the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo., and statistics regarding fatal police-involved shootings in the Chicago area show it’s time for a sweeping federal investigation into police conduct.

WBBM Newsradio’s John Cody reports Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy previously has said police-involved shootings have been cut in half in the past three years, but members of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression argued police have killed 86 people in five years, 80 percent of them African-Americans…”

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