Dueling rallies took place by the black activists and Blue Lives Matter supporters turned chaotic on Tuesday night after the activists had been "boxed in" on Kedzie Avenue and had been encouraged by police to leave on a CTA bus.

Police closed in Mount Greenwood Kedzie Avenue at the intersection of 111th Street , after the two sides clashed near the scene of a fatal police shooting which left 25 years old Joshua Beal dead in this weekend.

As the sun set, hundreds of pro-police supporters qued up the sidewalk at 111th Street and Kedzie Avenue, awaiting the coming of protesters led by the Rev. Michael Pfleger as well as activists Jedidiah Brown and Ja'Mal Green.

The activists reached at around 5:30 PM. and had quickly been drowned out by a chorus of boos and demands to "go home." Other people in the crowd revved motorcycles and blew horns in the air to drown out Brown, Pfleger and others.

The group of around 25 black activists said that a prayer in the middle of the intersection and sang the national anthem at the time of marching north on Kedzie Avenue.

Brown told into a microphone that he had been met by jeers from the crowd, despite his pleas ,  "If we agree black lives matter and blue lives matter, then what are we fighting for. We're all Chicagoans."

Marchers headed towards a few hundred feet before turning around, as the hundreds of police supporters among whom most of them were white,  took to the street. The activists , mostly black had been pushed effectively toward the bus and told that it would bring them back to their cars.

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By Prakriti Neogi