When protesters took to Chicago’s Michigan Avenue last week, grassroots activists at the Black Friday boycott had no interest in sharing the Magnificent Mile with “Black Lives Matter” activists from the University of Chicago, forcing protesters associated with the group off the street.

While media coverage from the periphery of the march showed images of protesters lined up in front of the high-end stores and reported on a unified movement for “justice” in the police killing of Laquan McDonald, it was anything but. Our footage from the core of the march reveals the contentious and disunited elements vying for control.

At the outset of the march, grassroots protesters commonly associated with the group Voices of the Ex-Offenders (V.O.T.E.) led the march north on Michigan Avenue and away from Jesse Jackson and his media entourage. The majority of viewers observing the events on television were unaware of how the march began as cameras and reporters remained trained on Jackson.

In doing so, media failed to capture the true tenor of the Black Friday march, including marked disunity among the groups represented that day, professional operatives attempting to stop our filming of the hostility toward Black Lives Matter activists by grassroots activists, and Black Youth Project 100 protesters inciting violence even as they chanted “peace,” as seen in our footage.

A white man from with the Black Youth Project 100 attempts to tell us we cannot film, and “we are not doing interviews,” just before a hispanic man with the group physically assaults me, attempts to prevent my camera from recording. During the encounter with the hispanic man, a hispanic woman warned me, that “for your own protection, you need to stop filming.”

The video shows militant female “Black Lives Matter” activists from Black Youth Project 100 fighting, pushing and shoving with the grassroots activists from the community, after being told not to try and get in front of the black community.

Watch the footage here (contains mild profanity):

V.O.T.E.’s Paul McKinley explained the view from inside the community, “Black Lives Matter is trying to get out in front of the grassroots. These folks come from the universities, from University of Chicago and they see Jesse Jackson has lost control. Black Youth Project 100, Black Lives Matter, the Dream Defenders — they’re all the same, they’re all front groups for a radical liberal agenda. They’re fighting to take control of the black community, to take over for the old guys, like Jackson and Al Sharpton.”

“None of them care about black issues,” McKinley continued, “they are using the black community as pawns to push out their own agendas like same-sex marriage and amnesty for illegal aliens. As long as they have black people beaten down, they think they can manipulate us.”

Mark Carter added, “They are trying to take over the movement, but we won’t let that happen.”

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