Black Protesters Take over Town Hall Meeting in Chicago

Emanuel escorted from meeting after protesters swarm stage (Chicago Sun Times)

Police escorted Mayor Rahm Emanuel from a town hall meeting Wednesday night after protesters, concerned about the fate of a neighborhood school building, stormed the stage and confronted him.

When a protester jumped on stage during the meeting on the Southeast Side, he was first warned but then tempers in the crowd soon erupted.

“You will have to get down,” Chicago Park District Board Vice President Avis LaVelle, the town hall moderator, told the protester during the meeting at the South Shore Cultural Center