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Tensions escalated in a Chicago neighborhood Monday, a day after the police department released a video showing officers skirmishing with a black man and then shooting him in the street on Saturday.

A rally late Monday on the spot where the shooting took place attracted about 200 people who chanted in unison. Some onlookers argued in the middle of the street about whether the police had a good reason to shoot. Two police helicopters hovered overhead. Suddenly, a middle-aged man darted up to police officers watching the scene.

"Human beings don't behave like that!" he screamed at them. An elderly woman from the corner joined in. "You're hurting people!" she yelled.

"It's gotten worse since Saturday," said Kay Thomas, 16, who was carrying groceries home from the corner Walgreen's. "I never saw my neighborhood this upset."

To many black and Latino residents on the city's South and West sides, the Saturday afternoon shooting of Harith Augustus, a barber in the South Shore neighborhood, is unquestionably linked to the 2014 police shooting of Laquan McDonald, an unarmed 17-year-old. The aftermath of that shooting resulted in an incriminating report by the U.S. Department of Justice into practices by the police department, the electoral ouster of State's Attorney Anita Alvarez, the firing of Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, and fresh vulnerability for Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who is in the midst of a reelection bid for a third term in February 2019.

Turning up the heat this summer is the pending trial of Jason Van Dyke, the Chicago police officer charged with first-degree murder for shooting McDonald 16 times as he backed slowly away. A police dashboard-camera video in that case was released more than a year after Emanuel narrowly won a second term. Van Dyke's attorney is trying to move the trial from Chicago because he argues that the officer cannot get a fair trial here.

Many here think the outcome of that trial will be a watershed moment.

"Nobody is taking [violence] seriously. The police aren't. The alderman isn't. The mayor don't give a damn. The community is the only ones taking it seriously," said Janet, 58, a neighborhood resident who did not want her last name used.

Unlike in the McDonald case, Chicago police released the Augustus tape to the public the next day. It shows two officers approaching Augustus as he stands on a sidewalk calmly talking with another officer. One of the officers grabs his wrist from behind, which causes him to spin around and run. A gun is seen as his shirt flies up, and he is shot as he runs off. There is no audio, and the circumstances related to the shooting are unknown. Police say the officer was placed on desk duty for 30 days; the shooting is under investigation by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA).

Activists in groups such as Black Lives Matter and the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression say that is not enough. At the march late Monday, as protesters marched to the barbershop where Augustus worked, activists called for the officer's name to be released and for the officer's firing. They also want an all-elected civilian council to replace COPA and have oversight on all matters related to police misconduct. Most of the appointees on COPA, which was created after the McDonald shooting, were named by Emanuel.

Some on Monday said they recognize that the police have a difficult job. But they questioned the decision to shoot to kill and said they want more video with audio released to give a full picture. Bill, 50, who did not want his last name used, said he watched the video and was troubled that the confrontation escalated. "It should have been handled differently," he said. "I just hope that what comes out of this is something good."

Since the release of the McDonald video in November 2015, rallies and marches have almost become a way of life in Chicago. Protesters have performed die-ins at City Hall, shut down Christmas shopping along Michigan Avenue, and regularly march in the Loop. The weekend before the Augustus shooting, 3,000 people marched down the Dan Ryan Expressway to protest gun violence.

All of those protests have been nonviolent. But on Saturday night, a five-hour march ended in baton-wielding police officers chasing and striking protesters, some of whom threw rocks and glass bottles in their direction.

Emanuel has not made a public statement about Saturday's shooting and the street violence that followed.

Emanuel has become a focus of critics who say that his priorities are wrong when it comes to investment in the city, favoring downtown and North Side development over neighborhoods that need jobs and infrastructure. His opponents have been particularly critical of a $95 million police and fire academy Emanuel pushed through for City Council approval in May.

Most of Emanuel's leading challengers released statements Monday suggesting that they understand the public dismay with police accountability and the need for change. Former federal prosecutor Lori Lightfoot, once an Emanuel appointee to lead the police board, said the police violence toward protesters Saturday night demands an investigation.

"The images I saw from a variety of sources raise serious questions about supervision, use of force and equipment, as well as tactics deployed," she said.

Another challenger, Troy LaRaviere, a former Chicago Public Schools principal, questioned whether the shooting was justified and why the video lacked audio.

"Our system of policing has been found to unjustly target African American communities for everything from issuing parking tickets, to setting up DUI checkpoints, to the unconstitutional use of force," he wrote on Facebook. "It is of great concern to know this same disparate system is being used to stop African American men who - like many white Chicagoans - arm themselves for protection."

However, McCarthy, the former Chicago police superintendent fired by Emanuel after the release of the McDonald video, wrote on Twitter that the shooting "appears to be justified." He also suggested that Augustus fled from officers because there remains a lingering lack of trust between the community and the police.

"Incidents like this underscore the need for a new mayor who can bring us together, promote understanding, and open dialogue," he said.

Yet almost as a reminder that the violence problem is urgent, two women were shot by random bullets fired from a car one block north of the rally 45 minutes before it started. Both victims were taken to nearby hospitals.

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Tensions escalated in a Chicago neighborhood Monday, a day after the police department released a video showing officers skirmishing with a black man and then shooting him in the street on Saturday. A rally late Monday on the spot where the shooting took place attracted about 200 people who chanted in unison.

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January 29
An investigation into sexual abuse allegations at a private Maryland school found a "toxic culture" in which 10 adults sexually exploited vulnerable girls in the 1970s, according to a report released this week.

The Key School in Annapolis launched the investigation after a former student said she was abused by two Key teachers starting when she was 13 and similar accounts were shared on social media. Seven former students interviewed by The Washington Post in an article last year said they were abused while enrolled at the school.

The investigation, which the Key School launched in February 2018, concluded that faculty members, administrators and board members who were aware of the abuse chose not to intervene and failed to protect students. The report does not allege any recent incidents at the school.

According to a report released Monday, teachers took advantage of Key's "informal and progressive social atmosphere . . . to sexually exploit students" and in many case targeted "students who were members of families suffering from various pressures resulting in less family supervision."

The investigation was conducted by Baltimore lawyers Andrew Jay Graham and Jean E. Lewis at the request of the school's administration. The lawyers did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday.
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Matthew Nespole, Key's current head of school, and Joe Janney, president of the board of trustees, said in a letter to the school community that 10 adults in positions of authority had sexual encounters with at least 16 former students. They said the abuse was able to continue because no one intervened to stop it.

"We apologize for the school's failures of the past and for the school's previous inaction," the letter said.

The school, on 15 acres a few miles from downtown Annapolis, has more than 600 students and enrolls children from 2 years old to 12th grade, according to its website. Tuition at the upper school is more than $28,000 per year, and the school's endowment is about $11 million.

A spokesperson for the school declined to comment on the report beyond the letter. Anne Arundel County police declined to comment, citing an open investigation into the abuse.

The 41-page report, for which investigators said they interviewed 57 witnesses, names nine people that investigators say abused students as young as 13. Another alleged abuser was not named, because the person was also a victim, the report said.

The Post in August reported the abuse claims of Carolyn Surrick, 59, and other women who came forward decades later in the #MeToo era. (The Post generally does not identify victims of sexual assault, but Surrick and others have spoken openly about the abuse.)

Called "Witness 4" in the report, Surrick told investigators that Eric Dennard, a Key art teacher from 1969 to 1978, first had sex with her at 13 and once "forcibly raped" her. After she became pregnant at 14, another Key teacher with whom she had sexual contact took her to get an abortion, she said.

The report said Dennard "was identified by former students as one of the primary forces behind a subculture in the 1970s that encouraged sexual relationships between teachers and students alongside rampant drug and alcohol abuse."

Investigators spoke to nine former students who said they had sexual encounters with Dennard as teenagers. One woman, whom the report indicates eventually married Dennard, estimated he had sex with about 25 students, the report said.

Despite rampant rumors about Dennard, the school hosted a memorial service for him in 1993 after he died of cancer. At the service, a student who said Dennard abused her "publicly asked the assembled group why the school was honoring someone" who assaulted her when she was 14, according to the report.

Paul Stoneham, a onetime head of Key's upper school who worked there from 1969 to 2015, participated in and was aware of abuse but "did nothing despite his leadership position," the report said. A woman identified as "Witness 3" said Stoneham exposed himself to her while serving as head of the upper school and forcibly tried to kiss her while giving her a ride home when she was 16.

"Stoneham evidently described the incident to Dennard as the next day Dennard told Witness 3 that she should have let Stoneham have sex with her because she was so ugly that nobody else would want to," the report said.

Efforts to reach Stoneham for comment were not successful.

Surrick provided details about abuse to the school and Anne Arundel County authorities in 1996 but the school did not publicly or privately acknowledge the claims, the report said. Police told her they could not help, Surrick said, and the school assured her such behavior would not happen again.

"The school, however, allowed Stoneham . . . to remain on the faculty, despite the fact that he almost certainly was aware of, and involved in, the events as they occurred in the 1970s," the report said.

Megan Stone Venton, 60, who told The Post last year she had sexual contact with Dennard and another teacher, said Tuesday she struggles with the abuse on a regular basis.

"The rage has nowhere to go except toward myself," she said. "Untold self-destruction has occurred over the years, despite daily efforts to become healed."

Valerie Bunker, a former student who told The Post last year that she was "groomed" by Dennard, said she thought the report was insufficient after decades of inaction.

"It is too little, too late," she wrote in an email. "There have been several opportunities for Key to do the right thing, which they ignored."

Roz Dove, a daughter of a Key School founder and board member from 1976 to 1990, called the report "searing."

"I heard little rumors but not these really ugly stories," she said. "These are horrible."

After years of fighting to bring the abuse to light, Surrick said the report was a "miraculous document." She tried to get the school to acknowledge the abuse for more than 20 years, interviewing survivors and former staffers and posting on social media with the hashtag #KeyToo.

"This is not what I'm focused on in my life anymore," she said. "And that's a beautiful thing."
Anne Arundel County police have set up a tip line for their investigation into the case, at 410-222-4700. Callers can remain anonymous. Read more: In a prestigious high school math and science program, alumni say #MeToo From 1993: How sex abuse in high school went unchecked

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