• @[email protected]
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    393 months ago

    The protesters walked directly into a large group of police officials, four officers deep, around 7:30 p.m. The officers began to push them the other way and yelled, “Move back, move back.” Scuffles began to break out, and officers wearing helmets moved into the crowd.

    A police supervisor eventually declared it an “unlawful assembly.”

    “This is an unpermitted event,” a supervisor declared on a bullhorn. “I am giving you a lawful order to disperse. If you do not disperse, you will be placed into custody by the Chicago Police Department.”

    A video showed officials trying to keep photographers and legal observers at bay while officers completed an arrest.

    Seems like the police were the ones escalating things.

    • @PainInTheAES
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      413 months ago

      CPD classic, I still remember when Lori and them decided to raise the bridges downtown to trap protestors during the George Floyd protests. Then they played disperse messages and hit the protestors at the pinch points. Chicago is a great city but CPD is pretty icky, they even have a blacksite.