Spike Lee said at the premiere of his new movie Chi-Raq Tuesday night, ?more heads are gonna roll?, referring to Rahm Emanuel firing Chicago?s police superintendent Tuesday, after tensions flared over the release of a graphic video that showed a black teenager, Laquan McDonald, being shot 16 times by a white police officer.
Lee said, the police superintendent "is not going to be the only one.?
The movie Chi-Raq is based on the ancient Greek play "Lysistrata" by Aristophanes. This modern adaptation is about the murder of a child hit by a stray bullet in Chicago's South Side, and the group of women that organize a unique way of dealing with the ongoing violence; they hold back sex.
The movie's kickoff segued into the anti-gun violence march. Lee, Sharpton and members of the film's cast joined about 150 people who marched from a midtown theater to Times Square.
Activists wore orange beanies with pompom tops.
Cleo Pendleton, whose 15-year-old daughter, Hadiya Pendleton, was killed in Chicago in 2013 said, the color was chosen from the vests hunters wear as a "don't shoot me sign?
Lee even wore orange-framed glasses.
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