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WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- Laquan McDonald's knife reflected the bright lights of the oncoming police SUVs. Officers jumped out with guns drawn, and the 17-year-old black teen angled his body away and started to move across the street.

Then, Jason Van Dyke, a white officer from the Chicago Police Department, fired a shot Cheap New Adidas Ultra Boost , hitting McDonald in the shoulder and spinning him around.

In the blink of an eye, a hail of another 15 bullets hit McDonald and ricocheted off ground around him while he was lying motionless on the ground.

Release of police video of the shooting and a murder charge against Van Dyke came more than a year after McDonald's death, and the delay has prompted more than two weeks of protests in the nation's third-largest city.

Half a century after the country removed state-sanctioned segregation and explicit discrimination, racial wounds still bleed as high-profile killings of blacks fuel waves of protests and reignite heated national debate about racial inequities.

A close look at the U.S. criminal justice system reveals that gains in racial change continue to be undermined by multiple sources of inequality that reinforce each other.

BLUE WALL OF SILENCE

Adding to the public anger, it was later known that the local police erased surveillance videos from a nearby Burger King, which may have captured McDonald's movement in the critical moment before the shooting Cheap Adidas Ultra Boost Mens , leading to a public outcry about a police cover-up.

Police documents showed several officers who witnessed the shooting appeared to give misleading information to investigators, with one account stating that Van Dyke had been injured by McDonald in the shooting.

"There was no question that the shooting was not justified," Carlos Miller, a police watchdog and independent journalist, told Xinhua. "There's no question they were trying to cover it up. They're playing games."

Across the country, the majority of the blacks had long been viewing the police force with great suspicion.

According to a poll by the Pew Research Center in August 2014 Cheap Adidas Ultra Boost Womens , a total of 62 percent blacks expressed at best "just some" confidence in local police to treat whites and blacks equally, with 46 percent expressing "very little" trust in police.

"We have a situation where many minority communities for so long have felt that law enforcement was coming in essentially to enforce laws against them, not to protect them," said Loretta Lynch, the country's first African- American female attorney general, in July.

Lynch was not the only one to speak out. In May Cheap Adidas Ultra Boost , Vanita Gupta, the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division chief, said that the "lack of trust in the police is real and it is profound."

In her letter to the Justice Department to ask for federal investigation into the practices of Chicago Police Department, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan wrote that "trust in the Chicago Police Department is broken."

The Justice Department has announced a federal probe into the Chicago Police practices, the latest of its over 20 investigations into local police departments across the country in the past six years.

Early this year, the Justice Department released a scathing report of the Ferguson police force in the state of Missouri that pointed to widespread discrimination against the black communities among local law enforcement officials.

Apart from the excessive and unjustified use of force against black people and communities Cheap New Ultra Boost , Ferguson law enforcement officials systematically relied on unlawful and hefty fines on African-Americans to create revenue increases, the report revealed.

UNJUSTIFIED & DEADLY STOPS

McDonald's death at the hands of police also exposes a controversial trend in local policing called "stop and frisk," raising concerns over racial profiling.

A report released by the American Civil Liberties Union early this year showed that black Chicagoans, representing only 32 percent of the city's total population, were subjected to 72 percent of all stops.

The phenomenon of blacks being stopped by officers at disproportionately high rates is not confined to Chicago.

In April, black man Freddie Gray Cheap Ultra Boost Shoes , 25, was arrested in Baltimore, Maryland, after police officers stopped him on the street and found a knife in his pocket. Later, Maryland state prosecutor said Gray's arrest was "illegal" since the knife found in his pocket was not an illegal switchblade.

In July, black woman Sandra Bland Cheap Ultra Boost Mens , 28, was arrested in Waller County, Texas, during a traffic stop that originated from Bland's failure to signal while changing the driving lane.

A video clip released later showed that Brian Encinia, the white officer involved in the incident, threatened Bland with a Taser when he ordered her out of the vehicle.

According to the video Cheap Ultra Boost Womens , after being stopped by the office, when Bland questioned why she had to put out her cigarette, the traffic stop immediately turned confrontational.

"It highlights the concern of many in the black community that a routine stop for many members of the black community is not handled with the same professionalism and courtesy that other people may get from the police," said Attorney General Lynch shortly after the incident.

Both Gray and Bland passed away while in police custody. Gray appeared to die of a spinal cord injury sustained during his riding in the police van, while Bland appeared to commit suicide in a Texas jail.

"I feel like (the criminal justice system) is rigged against us, it's like value of our lives is not the equal of theirs (the whites) Cheap Ultra Boost ," a student from Towson University in Baltimore said during a large-scale protest after the death of Gray. "We want change.