Black Chicagoans force BLM protest out of their neighbourhood

Black residents in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood interrupted a protest led by Chicago's Black Lives Matter and demanded that they disperse. Englewood was the site of an officer-involved shooting is alleged to have triggered rampant rioting and looting on Sunday night.

The residents of Englewood distinctly did not want their neighbourhood to be the focal point of protest activity. The protestors had no choice but to comply and to disperse from the area.

The riots were allegedly held in response to the police shooting of Latrell Allen over the weekend. Allen, 20, was shot after, officials say, he fired a gun at police. Allen has since been charged with two counts of attempted murder and one count of unlawful possession of a weapon.

Chicago BLM organized a series of protests, beginning Monday, in support of the 100 arrested individuals, claiming that the looting of up-scale stores was merely "reparations."

However, on the second night of protests outside the Englewood District police station, South Side residents appeared at the BLM rally to force the protestors out of their community, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

While encircled by Defund the Police activists, Duane Kidd, a 42-year-old lifelong resident of Englewood yelled, "None of these motherf***ers are gonna be here tomorrow. That's why I got a problem."

Kidd stated that Chicago BLM never informed the community of the protest or placed flyers on doors.

"If they would've gotten something incited with the police, who's gotta deal with it tomorrow? The community. Not them. They'll be somewhere sipping sangria somewhere. I'm telling you like it is," Kidd continued, concerned that community members would bear the strain with local police if tensions flared.

Darryl Smith, president of the Englewood Political Task Force, told the protestors to take their issues to the Chicago Police Department. "Don’t come in Englewood with it," Smith accused outsiders of antagonizing Englewood police in an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times.

"We have a relationship with the commander and if anyone wants to come in here and talk to the police about the shooting or anything, they have to go through us," Smith went on.

He also directly called out protestors, demanding to know where Chicago BLM has been given the recent uptick in violence in the city.

“Y'all don’t come out when a kid gets shot. Y'all come out when it's got something to do with the f****** police,” Smith shouted into a megaphone.

BLM protesters tried to block photographers from documenting the division between their group and the community they were occupying.

ABC 7 reported that Chicago BLM had called off their rally of 75 protestors, dispersing a half-hour later, after facing backlash from community members, but the group's social media account denied the clash between residents and police agitators.