The unmarked squad car was traveling amid other Chicago Police Department vehicles that made up an escort for demonstrators marching Saturday through the Garfield Park neighborhood of the city. The protest, like others that are ongoing nationwide, emanated from the grand jury decisions in New York and Missouri not to indict white police officers for killing unarmed black men. The 1974 song by Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd has been deemed by some as sympathetic to former Alabama Governor George Wallace and the segregationist policies he supported, especially in the 1960s during the civil rights movement. The band has...
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