A University of Chicago police officer shot and seriously wounded a 21-year-old student who charged an officer with a metal pipe near the South Side campus late Tuesday, authorities said. Body camera footage showing the shooting, which happened off campus just before 10:15 p.m., was released by the school on Wednesday night.
Fifty years ago today, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. His killing set off more than 100 riots across the country, including the most devastating civil disturbance in Chicago's history.