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Criminal justice for the Chicago Tribune, [email protected]. @ctguild.bsky.social
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Hard to get a good visual on the drum line but vibes are excellent. They’re jamming
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Drum line rocking out, march steps off.
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Huge theme of the week: “Everyone behind the banner!”
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Whoops that’s Engine 129 and Ambo 175. Big ups to the paramedics maneuvering up Throop.
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They are reading the names of people under 18 who have died from violence over the last year. I have lost count.
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A lady has suffered a medical emergency in the course of events and so the program has stopped to lead a prayer for her. Choir is is in full swing as Engine 29 pulls up. Pfleger and a phalanx of city officials helping clear a path. Throop Street is filled to the gills with parishioners.
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There are some alarmingly cute kids in attendance
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Getting ready to march, looks like they’re making their way north
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“For months now the deportation machine has failed in Chicago because of our resistance… Trump forgot that Chicago fights back.”
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Arab-American Action network rep (didn’t catch name) condemns travel ban, saying “it will tear families apart… all this racist smoke and mirrors game of attacking our communities is because Trump and his cronies are losing.”
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Elected officials spotted so far — North Side Ald. Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth and Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss
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“What good are the parks when people are afraid to go to them?”
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“America is doing the electric slide backward… This is the America we thought we changed.”
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This rally is in opposition to “escalating civil rights rollbacks,” per a press release. Maybe 100 people on the line.
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Some CPD bike units on scene as expected,, plus Director of Community Policing Glenn Brooks.
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Confrontation dispersed at Jackson and Dearborn. Visors up, batons in hand
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March appears to have dispersed. Cops flipped their lights on and headed south down Michigan.
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Outside the Chicago Cultural center on Michigan Avenue, a protester dressed in black and am officer confronted one another. The protester hit the ground, and a white shirt pulled the officer off the protester. Police surrounded the protester on the ground as he crawled toward the traffic median
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Burning a flag, Michigan Ave
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Back on the move with salt trucks blocking bridges
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Just north of State and Washington. Cops with helmets and batons, crowd backing off to the north
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DM for public safety Garien Gatewood on scene
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“We have to move, we’re getting kettled.”
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Some confrontation, State/Washington. “Who do you serve, who do you protect?”
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Folks back on the move from Daley Plaza.
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I’d wager 3/4K here at the Picasso statue
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Back south over the river
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Marching through River North, people are continuing their Al fresco dinner and some restaurant workers are holding their phones aloft and pumping their fists.
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Folks crossing the river
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North back up State now.
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People are tagging the Art Institute. The air smells like spray paint
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