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Small gathering of people at Roosevelt and Columbus. People are demanding that the charges against Jeremy "Mohawk" Johnson are dropped. Johnson allegedly struck a police officer with a skateboard. #Chicago #ChicagoProtests 
The group is about 50 strong are going over some chants and will be marching pretty soon. #Chicago #ChicagoProtests
People are moving westbound on Roosevelt police and protest marshals are helping block traffic. #Chicago #ChicagoProtests
Around a dozen to two dozen people are out rallying at Grant Park near Roosevelt and Michigan decrying the U.S. hitting 200,000 dead from COVID-19. #Chicago #ChicagoProtests
Folks are now marching northbound on Michigan Ave. marching to Federal Plaza. #Chicago #ChicagoProtests
Current scene outside the 16th District Police Station. Pro police supporters are chanting at counter protesters to "Go Back To Work". #Chicago #ChicagoProtests
A couple dozen counter protesters are set up across the streer from the 16th District station. #Chicago #ChicagoProtests
Around 100 people have taken to the streets at Garfield and Wabash marching eastbound protesting gun violence and police brutality. #Chicago #ChicagoProtests
Folks have circled up Michigan Ave. and Garfield. #Chicago #ChicagoProtests
Miracle Boyd with @GKMC18 speaks about the loss of her uncle to gun violence near Garfield and Michigan. #Chicago #ChicagoProtests
A few hundred people are marching eastbound on 18th Street demanding justice for Miguel Vega.
#Chicago #ChicagoProtests
#Chicago #ChicagoProtests
Police are blocking all eastbound movement at Carpenter and 18th leaving only northbound on Carpenter open to marchers. #Chicago #ChicagoProtests
Folks now marching southbound on Racine chanting "Release the fucking footage" #Chicago #ChicagoProtests
About 3 dozen people are currently outside the University of Chicago Provost's home drawing chalk messages on the street. Folks are demanding the defunding of the UofC police department. #Chicago #ChicagoProtests
Students and community memebers have been occupying this area around the UofC Provosts for the last 5 days. Tables full of provisions and bedding can been seen on neighbors lawns. Neighbors have been accommodating and helping out the activists. #Chicago #ChicagoProtests
Activists are shutting down S. Geenwood Ave. with bikes, cones, tents, and tables in front of two UofC Police officers and a Chicago police supervisor. #Chicago #ChicagoProtests
Photo Thread: 1/ BLM Protesters and Chicago PD clash on Sat 8/15/2020. Organized by @GKMC18 @BlckRising @ChiFreeSchool and several others, this march started peacefully at the Bean before heading North on Michigan Ave. #chicagoprotests #ChicagoProtest #blmchicago #Chicago
2/ Arriving at Wacker Dr protesters found a police line formed that prevented their eastbound march and a formidable rear line on Michigan Ave. Unclear if Westbound Wacker was blocked at this point, but it was later. This is a lingering question. Why did they close in here?
3/ A standoff of sorts. Kettling progresses, protesters prepare and self-protect, tensions escalate to pushing, shoving, hitting, and pepper spray.
Attack ppl. pinning in. Can't move.send help making us open bags. #ChicagoProtests
Here at the Dan Ryan Shutdown - Black Lives Matter march. Counter protestors are here.
Organized by the Tikkun Chai Inter-National & Chicago Activist Coalition for Justice.
#ChicagoProtests #DanRyan #BlackLivesMatter #Chicago
Organized by the Tikkun Chai Inter-National & Chicago Activist Coalition for Justice.
#ChicagoProtests #DanRyan #BlackLivesMatter #Chicago
Police have blocked the street at 47th/Dearborn.
#ChicagoProtests #DanRyan #BlackLivesMatter #Chicago
#ChicagoProtests #DanRyan #BlackLivesMatter #Chicago
Flanked by security, Rabbi Michael Ben Yosef, leads the march on a detour down 47th. He has his security clear the front and say, “I want to be in the front.”
#ChicagoProtests #DanRyan #BlackLivesMatter #Chicago
#ChicagoProtests #DanRyan #BlackLivesMatter #Chicago
Around 50 people outside the DuSable Museum at 57th and Cottage Grove demanding justice for Latrell. Things are pretty calm just folks standing around waiting until 6:00. #Chicago #ChicagoProtests
A drum circle can be seen and heard near the gathering of people outsidw the DuSable Museum. #Chicago #ChicagoProtests
Some community members and protesters are getting into arguments here at the 7th district police station, many community members are demanding that these protesters leave their community and protest somewhere else. #Chicago #ChicagoProtests
A community member could be heard saying "Go protest on 57th and Aberdeen thats where he was shot...but you won't be cops wont protect your asses"
#Chicago #ChicagoProtests
#Chicago #ChicagoProtests
Community members continue to ask protesters to leave and ask "where are you when a baby's shot"
#Chicago #ChicagoProtests
#Chicago #ChicagoProtests
About a dozen officers and a couple dozen protesters are outside the District 1 police station they are demanding the release of individuals who are still here from last night's rioting. #Chicago #ChicagoProtests
Things are very very calm here. Police are out front with bikes, and protesters have food and a banner. #Chicago #ChicagoProtests
Heard that a half a dozen are being held with Disorderly Conduct and 1 with Unlawful Use of a Fire Arm, here at District 1. #Chicago #ChicagoProtests
I'm acutely aware that part of what upsets (white) people about seeing Black people engage in property destruction is the knowledge that we used to be (their) property. #ChicagoProtests #BlackLivesMatter #DefundCPD
Black bodies exist in the white imaginary as an extension of their own wealth. We are revenue generators--whether it was slave labor, or the extraction of monies and resources through austerity, gentrification, and policing now. #ChicagoProtests #BlackLivesMatter #DefundCPD
When they call us "savages," "criminals," "looters," what they mean is, "How dare you have the audacity to assert that you have more value than the level of value I have assigned to you." #ChicagoProtests #BlackLivesMatter #DefundCPD
CHICAGO: “We Shall Not Be Moved: A Wake, A Vigil, A Celebration.”
Organizers granted me with advanced permission to live tweet. I agreed to hold off on pro photos. Being mindful of my privilege as a cis-man, I want to be highly respectful. This is not MY space.
#ChicagoProtests
Organizers granted me with advanced permission to live tweet. I agreed to hold off on pro photos. Being mindful of my privilege as a cis-man, I want to be highly respectful. This is not MY space.
#ChicagoProtests
This is the Beautiful singing of Shantel Cribbs. (IG/shanydrenee)
#BlackTransPower #defundCPD #BlackTransLivesMatter #ChicagoProtests
#BlackTransPower #defundCPD #BlackTransLivesMatter #ChicagoProtests
I saw a sign yesterday at the #Seattleprotest that I've been mulling over, and I've decided I need to talk about it. This might get long and might be vaguely disorganized, and please bear with me - it's important. 1/22
“Empathy is not allyship.”
One more time for emphasis: Empathy is NOT allyship. 2/22
One more time for emphasis: Empathy is NOT allyship. 2/22
Bluntly - it doesn’t matter if you feel bad about events or feel pity for the people involved *if you aren’t willing to actively do something about it*. It doesn’t matter. “Feeling bad” about events happening is irrelevant. Feeling bad is the embarrassingly bare minimum. 3/22
#PoliceBrutality at #ChicagoProtests
A Thread:
#JusticeForBreonnaTaylor #JusticeForAndresGuardado #WeRemember #2020PoliceBrutality #BlackLivesMatter
A Thread:
#JusticeForBreonnaTaylor #JusticeForAndresGuardado #WeRemember #2020PoliceBrutality #BlackLivesMatter
#ChicagoProtest on 5/30 [@alyssa_taylor45]: A protester was taken down by multiple police officers and beaten. They seemingly knelt down on his neck.
#ChicagoProtest on 5/30 [@JCB_Journo]: Police pepper-spray reporter holding press pass and yelling press.
Here at the Christopher Columbus statue at Roosevelt and Columbus with most of Chicagos media after we got word that the city plans to tear the statue down at 11:00 P.M. tonight. #Chicago #ChicagoProtests
Hearing conflicting reports now that the Statue will come down but not tonight.
A cop on scene was overheard saying "they let the cat out of the bag on this one, it won't happen tonight"
#Chicago #ChicagoProtests
A cop on scene was overheard saying "they let the cat out of the bag on this one, it won't happen tonight"
#Chicago #ChicagoProtests
John Catanzara is here on scene at the Columbus Statue at Columbus and Roosevelt wearing an Italia Jacket calling the Mayor a "coward".
#Chicago #ChicagoProtests
#Chicago #ChicagoProtests
Hundreds of people are currently at Logan Sqaure Park demanding that CPD be defunded. #Chicago #ChicagoProtests
An organizer with Good Kids Mad City speaks to the crowd and reporters about what happened to Miracle Boyd. #Chicago #ChicagoProtests
“Logan Square Lockdown” Yet another protest nearby Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s home. #ChicagoProtests #ChicagoScanner
Large crowd. Members of @GKMC18 are speaking about their #PeaceBook ordinance and demands. #ChicagoProtests #LoganSquareLockdown #DefundCPD
They asked for volunteers to help transport items down the route, and pretty much the entire crowd stepped up. #ChicagoProtests #LoganSquareLockdown #DefundCPD
SWAT vehicle just drove by and parked nearby the Christopher Columbus Statue on Roosevelt and Columbus. I and much of Chicago's TV media are here for a press conference happening soon. #Chicago #ChicagoProtests
The scene currently at Roosevelt and Columbus. Still really quiet over heave very little police and only a handful of activists on scene.
There's more media then both police and activists combined.
#Chicago #ChicagoProtests
There's more media then both police and activists combined.
#Chicago #ChicagoProtests
Press conference has started. Folks from Good Kids Mad Citu and Ja'Mal Green are up and speaking, they are demanding that the Chicago Police Budget be re-allocated to the communities and community programs. #Chicago #ChicagoProtests
Kimball/Fullerton: Protestors #ChicagoaScanner
Protestors and police line on Kimball #ChicagoScanner
Argument between this man and protestors at Kimball/Fullerton #ChicagoScanner
Police and protesters are standing off in Grant Park after protesters attempted to topple the Columbus statue at Roosevelt and Columbus. #Chicago #ChicagoProtests
The statue wasn't toppled but its been entirely tagged over. There's also a of bikes that have been left over since PD cleared the area. #Chicago #ChicagoProtests
Cops with pepper spray and batons out are pushing a small group of protesters near the Columbus statue back threatening arrests. #Chicago #ChicagoProtests
Group of protesters and cops are standing off at Kimball Ave and Wrightwood Ave near Lori Lightfoots residence. #Chicago
The person on the megaphone is searching up officers information on a web database and announcing how many complaints they have. #Chicago
To clarify these aren't random officers they are getting information on but the officers blocking off the intersection on Kimball and Wrightwood. Two of the officers who had their infomation publicized left the line and walked away. #Chicago
My earlier estimations were off thers maybe around 3000-5000 people at Union park currently, the last time I've seen this park this full was the last time I covered North Coast Music Festival. #Chicago #ChicagoProtests
