CPD Met With BLM After Racial Tensions Close Marist High School
CHICAGO (CBS) – In an unprecedented move, Chicago Police, school authorities and Black Lives Matter students met Friday behind closed doors after racial tensions closed a high school and shook parents.
CBS 2's Dorothy Tucker reports on the upshot of the meeting.
They are not even out of high school, but these young women, members of Black Lives Matter youth are behind a planned protest that forced Marist High School to close on Friday and promoted the city's top cop and other city leaders to meet with them.
The youth protesters targeted the Catholic school after racially charged tweets were exchanged between black and white students at the school last week.
The tweets came on the hills of a shooting of a black man by an off-duty white police officer in Mount Greenwood, that lead to a clash between Black Lives Matter protesters and Mount Greenwood residents.
Friday's meeting was more than two hours long.
19th Ward Alderman, Matt O'Shea agreed to hold a town-hall meeting in his Mount Greenwood community to address the racial divide.
The teens agreed to cancel a planned protest for Sunday, but promise to continue to support the black students at Marist High School.
The CEO of Chicago Public Schools and the principal of Marist High School also attended the meeting.
According to the students, the Marist principal also agreed to make changes at the school, but wanted to share the information with Marist parents before making it public.
