Roughly 3,000 demonstrators have shut down a large portion of Michigan Avenue in Chicago–the “Magnificent Mile”–in the middle of Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year, to protest the shooting of black teenager Laquon McDonald.
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Demonstrators in Chicago say they will march down the city’s Magnificent Mile to disrupt Black Friday shopping in order to bring attention to the killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. After Officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with first degree murder,
Black Friday deal hunting has already turned violent for shoppers at the St. Matthew’s Mall in Louisville, KY when a brawl broke out near the food court. Follow Pam Key On Twitter @pamkeyNEN
Shoppers in Kentucky kicked off Black Friday by getting in an all-out brawl in a shopping mall in Lexington, Kentucky on Thanksgiving night.
Consumers preparing for Black Friday are arriving at stores far earlier this year than ever before; some customers have been camped out since last week.
2013 was a banner year for gun sales, with a record 21,093,273 background checks for gun purchases completed. And with all those new guns in circulation, the FBI reports that murders and robberies have decreased.
On July 7, the FBI announced that June 2015 was the “busiest June” for gun purchase background checks ever.
The FBI’s December figures show 2.3 million background checks for gun purchasers were conducted in one month alone.
