Chicago gun control march leader says ‘the people won today’

By Associated Press

Published July 8, 2018 12:48am ET

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Chicago gun control march leader says ‘the people won today’ — The Rev. Michael Pfleger (pictured center) speaks to protesters before marching on the Dan Ryan Expressway on Saturday in Chicago. The protesters shut down the expressway to draw attention to the city's gun violence and pressure public officials to do more to help neighborhoods hardest hit by it. | (AP Photo/Annie Rice)

The leader of an anti-violence march that shut down a Chicago freeway says “the people won today.”

Thousands of people marched a roughly 1.5-mile (2.4-kilometer) stretch of Interstate 94 to draw attention to gun violence.

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