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With racial tension spiking in Mount Greenwood and at Marist High School, the neighborhood will hold prayer vigils, town hall meetings and workshops in hopes of improving race relations in the area, city and police officials said Friday.
Ald. Matt O'Shea (19th), Police Supt. Eddie Johnson and Marist Principal Larry Tucker met with members of Black Lives Matter Youth at CPS headquarters Friday to discuss ways to improve the tension that spiked with the police killing of a black man in the area and racist texts from Marist students that followed the shooting.
"I was caught by surprise and I'm saddened by it," O'Shea said about racial tension enveloping Mount Greenwood. "Today, I hope we can turn the corner."
City officials had offered the meeting to the Black Lives Matter group, all black high school students, after CPS had asked them not to attend a planned rally outside Marist Friday. The girls had received death threats in advance of their planned protest, they said. (Marist, a Catholic high school, canceled classes Friday, even though the protest was called off.)
A protest tentatively planned for Sunday was also called off, though not necessarily due to to the threats against the girls, Supt. Johnson said, but to allow for a more productive dialogue.
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