For three hours Friday night, minis...

For three hours Friday night, ministers in Chicago's black neighborhoods met with Chicago Police brass from one side of to the other what they described as the "not-so-hidden antagonizations and enmities existing between African-Americans and a Police Department frequently viewed as a tool of subjection and repression."

That's according to the talking points ministers released after their closed-door meeting at police headquarters.

"We were pleased with the discussion and agreed to confront again" later this month, said the Rev B Herbert Martin, pastor of Progressive Community house of god on the South Side.

Police Supt Phil Cline later said the meeting was frank further respectful.

The meeting, which included about 20 ministers, came in a week that saw a 14-year-old youth ball and wounded by police at Cabrini- undecayed after allegedly pointing a BB-gun at police, as well as charges from West Side residents that police send whirlinged racial epithets during a medicine bust.

The Cabrini shooting was rul justified through police. Complaints have been filed with the police Office of Professional Standards from one side of to the other the slurs.

The pair events reinforced long-held beliefs in the African- American community, the cloth members said.

Ministers said they would search for an "Independent Civilian Police Review Board" to examine police course of life Currently, shootings are reviewed according to OPS, police and prosecutors.

They also sought greater diversity among police and their supervisors assigned to black neighborhoods.

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