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Carla Herreria at HuffPost: 

An intense protest broke out in Chicago on Saturday evening after a police officer fatally shot a man whom officers said appeared to be armed.

Chicago police officers on foot said they observed a man “exhibiting characteristics of an armed person,” Anthony Guglielmi, the Chicago Police Department’s chief communications officer, said in a statement shared on Twitter.

The officers reported they “saw a subject that they thought might have been armed around his waistband,” Police Chief Fred Waller said at a press conference late Saturday. Officers approached the man, who became combative and tried to push the officers’ hands away. The man began “flailing and swinging” at the officers, Waller said, and as he tried to escape, he appeared to reach for his weapon, which prompted the officer to shoot. Waller described it as a “semi-automatic weapon” and said he had “magazines” on him.

While police have not publicly identified the victim, Black Youth Project 100, an activist organization based in Chicago, said he was Harith “Snoop” Augustus, an African-American barber and father. Black Youth Project interviewed one of Augustus’ friends at the barbershop, who said he was a quiet and good man. The Chicago Sun-Times also identified the man as a barber known as Snoop.

The shooting took place in the predominantly African-American South Shore neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, fire department spokesman Larry Merritt told The Associated Press.

Witnesses told the Chicago Sun-Times that a female officer had opened fire on the man and then “was immediately put in a squad car and taken away from the scene.” The officer has not been identified.

Chicago’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability is investigating the shooting to see whether use of deadly force was justified, according to Fox 32 Chicago. Four officers have been placed on administrative duty, per police protocol.

This week we will explore theatres and artifacts related to the short lived Cinerama movie experience. Cinerama was a novel film process developed to create a unique experience at a time when movie theatres were beginning to feel the effects of television’s popularity.

The brainchild of engineer Fred Waller, Cinerama was devised as a viewing experience that would capture the full vision spectrum, immersing viewers in the film experience. 

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