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The first floor of the west wing in the Illinois state Capitol building has been updated with new sprinklers, exit signs, fire alarms and a restoration of its paint, ceiling and decorative wall molding to make the area “Capitol proper,” dating to the 1890s and early 1900s time period. The chandelier was selected to replicate a gas-fed flame. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)

Officers work the scene where a 14-year-old boy was shot in the head near the 1400 block of West 73rd Street in the Englewood neighborhood Wednesday Jan. 12, 2022 in Chicago. Earlier in the day a 14-year-old boy was fatally shot on the street on 2200 block of West Adams nearly half a mile from the United Center. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)

The altercation, captured on video, appears to show O’Dekirk grabbing Victor Williams Jr., a Lockport man who was 23 at the time, by the collar and forcibly walking him backward to a police vehicle at a chaotic public demonstration. The May 31 demonstration was one of many protests across the country that came in the wake of Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police.