News Wrap: Thousands march in Chicago to protest black teen’s death

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• JUDY WOODRUFF:

  Thousands of protesters marched through Chicago`s rainy retail district today, voicing their anger against the shooting death of a black teenager by a Chicago policeman last year.

• PROTESTER:

  What do we want?

• PROTESTERS:

  Justice!

• PROTESTER:

  When do we want it?

• PROTESTERS:

  Now!

• JUDY WOODRUFF:

  The Magnificent Mile on Chicago`s Michigan Avenue the day after Thanksgiving, usually filled with holiday shoppers, today flooded with protesters. Thousands marched along the main artery, while others blocked store entrances to take part in so-called Blackout Friday, their goal, to shut down the busy retail district to protest the shooting death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.

• WOMAN:

  We have to come together. And it's power and impact when you touch the economy, and that`s what we`re trying to do.

• WOMAN:

  The police are murdering people in the city with no repercussions. They can't do that. You charge one officer, and there's hundreds of other children dead with no charges.

• JUDY WOODRUFF:

  Today's demonstrations are the latest since the city's police department released video Tuesday night of the shooting. It showed Officer Jason Van Dyke, who is white, firing at McDonald, who was black, 16 times. Most struck him while he was on the ground.

  McDonald, who was holding a knife, had allegedly punctured the tires of a police car. Prior to the video's release, Van Dyke was charged with first-degree murder. But today, many, including the Reverend Jesse Jackson, one of the event's organizers, said protests will continue.

• REV. JESSE JACKSON, Rainbow PUSH Coalition:

  We will escalate marches on Michigan Avenue until…

• QUESTION:

  On Michigan avenue?

• REV. JESSE JACKSON:

  On Michigan Avenue until the city, in fact, those who are the beneficiaries of our largess are able to come to the table.

• JUDY WOODRUFF:

  Demonstrators are calling for the resignation of the city`s police chief and one of its top prosecutors.

  In a separate Chicago case today, police announced first-degree murder charges against a man suspected in the death of a 9-year-old boy as gang retaliation. Police believe 27-year-old Corey Morgan and two others lured Tyshawn Lee from a park into an alley and killed him earlier this month. It was evidently to get back at the boy`s father.

  Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said the arrest was made possible by people coming forward with information.

• GARRY MCCARTHY, Chicago Police Superintendent:

  We got an awful lot of intelligence from the community. This was very clearly not a case of no snitching, but there was a lot of fear, which is completely understandable. If you have a monster who's willing to assassinate a 9-year-old, what is that person likely to do if they know that somebody is cooperating with the case detectives working on that particular murder?

• JUDY WOODRUFF:

  One of the other suspects is already in jail on an unrelated gun charge. The other is still at large.

  Overseas, Belgian authorities said today they have charged an unidentified man with committing — quote — "terrorist attacks." He was taken into custody Thursday in Brussels, but it's unclear if he's linked to one of the Paris attackers, Salah Abdeslam, who remains at large two weeks after he rampaged through Paris.

  Elsewhere in Brussels, security was tight as a popular Christmas market opened for business a day after the government lowered the alert level by one notch.

  There was an escalating war of words over the downing of a Russian warplane by a Turkish fighter jet near the Syrian border earlier this week.

  Today, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced that visa-free travel between Turkey and Russia will no longer exist. He said the move was necessary because Turkey has become a conduit for terrorists.

• SERGEI LAVROV, Foreign Minister, Russia (through interpreter):

  We have more and more questions about the real intentions of Ankara and its real commitment to eradicating terrorism, particularly in Syria, and its interest in the normalization of the situation in the Syrian Arab republic.

• JUDY WOODRUFF:

  So far, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has not publicly apologized for the plane`s downing, although he said he`s tried but failed to reach Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone.

  Today at a hospital opening, he expressed hope that he could meet with the Russian leader at next week's climate summit in Paris.

• PRESIDENT RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN, Turkey (through interpreter):

  On Monday, there will be a meeting in Paris. I believe Mr. Putin will be there attending. I would like to meet him there and maybe talk about this in a reasonable way. We are very disturbed by the fact that this issue got escalated needlessly.

  There is a big potential for cooperation between the two countries, and we do not want this issue to hurt our current or potential relations.

• JUDY WOODRUFF:

  Putin's foreign affairs adviser said the Kremlin had received the meeting request, but wouldn`t say if it was possible.

  A new round of airstrikes pounded Northern Syria today, killing up to a dozen people, including five children. They targeted the city of Raqqa, the Islamic State's de facto capital. Syrian activists said they appeared to hit a school overtaken by ISIS.

  Police in Nigeria suspect Boko Haram militants in a suicide bombing on a Shiite parade today. Local religious leaders said at least 21 people were killed. A male suicide bomber blew himself up during the procession in Nigeria's Kano state, as Shiite Muslims were walking from Kano to the city of Zaria. A second suicide bomber was detained before he could detonate his explosives.

  Pope Francis arrived in Uganda today, and told the gathered crowds that Africa is a — quote — "continent of hope." He hailed the way Uganda has opened its arms to refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan. On Sunday, the pope moves on to the Central African Republic, where civil war has raged between Christian and Muslim militias in recent years.

  AIDS is now the main cause of death for African teenagers. The U.N. Agency for Children, UNICEF, reported that, since 2000, AIDS-related deaths have tripled in children between the ages of 10 and 19, one reason, the global push to eradicate HIV focused on babies, and not as much on the second decade of childhood.

  And in China, a prominent human rights activist was sentenced to six years in prison, as a nationwide crackdown on dissent by the Chinese government continues; 48-year-old Guo Feixiong was arrested for — quote — "gathering crowds to disturb social order" after a weeklong peaceful demonstration outside a newspaper office two weeks ago.

  Here in the U.S., shoppers packed the stores this Black Friday, hunting for bargains and door-buster deals. The National Retail Federation estimates nearly 136 million people will shop during the four-day weekend. That's up two million from last year.

  And in a shortened day of trading on Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average lost 15 points to close near 17800. The Nasdaq rose 11 points, and the S&P 500 rose one point. For the week, the Dow fell a 10th-of-a-percent, the Nasdaq added nearly half-a-percent, and the S&P was nearly unchanged.