Posted on 08/20/2020 10:15:07 AM PDT by Red Badger
The Chicago Police Department has effectively banned protesters from demonstrating on Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s block in the Logan Square neighborhood, ordering officers to arrest anyone who refuses to leave, the Tribune has learned.
The directive surfaced in a July email from then-Shakespeare District Commander Melvin Roman to officers under his command. It did not distinguish between the peaceful protesters Lightfoot regularly says she supports and those who might intend to be destructive, but ordered that after a warning is given to demonstrators, “It should be locked down.”
Since the order, and even for a time just prior to its writing, Chicago cops have repeatedly blocked protesters’ access to the block with groups of officers and barricades. Police have often kept protesters contained at the nearby corner of Kimball and Wrightwood avenues, though one standoff between activists and officers last month saw police go as far as bringing in an armored vehicle in case things got out of hand.
Some neighbors in the Logan Square area have complained about the city’s approach to protests around Lightfoot’s house, which at times has included checking residents’ IDs before letting them close. Ron Kaminecki, a 69-year old patent attorney and bike shop owner who lives on Bernard Street a few houses from Lightfoot, said some neighbors have been frustrated by the police presence and barricades.
“I came up with the name ‘Fort Lori’ because it’s so hard to get in and out,” Kaminecki said.
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Some animals are more equal...
If they are ‘peaceful’ why does she need cops to protect her?................
Wow, you think maybe they could do that downtown also?
FDR freed government from the Law ... it was inevitable that the government would then view the people as the objects of its power and prestige. A free people benefit from a government bound by strong chains. A free government benefits by the chains it imposes on the people. I’ve sometimes noted that the need for monuments to national glory in DC has risen in direct proportion to Arbitrary government.
One would, wouldn’t one?...............
Remember. When the SHTF this is what the police will be doing, protecting the corrupt pols. The one’s that show up, that is.
The Left needs disruption of society to advance their fetid Revolution.
Sure hope nobody calls in one of those swatting hoaxes to her neighborhood, that would probably cause all kind of chaos.
Their numbers would be quite thin very quickly...................
Dems are the biggest hypocrites on the planet..
Some more equal than others
That block should become ground zero for the Chicago revolution.
Protesting to demand redress of grievances from your elected officials is the most clear-cut of all cases of “protected speech” one could possibly imagine.
If they get away with blocking that, then there is no “freedom of speech” to speak of.
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance Is Strength................
Lori Lightweight’s special lesbian superpowers can’t stop the mobs. But defunding the police and stricter gun control are good ideas.
In addition to this slice of hypocrisy, both Shortshanks and the Ballerina (Daley Jr and Rahm) still receive round the clock police protection from the soon to be bankrupt City of Chicago. Daley Jr hasn’t been mayor for close to 10 years. Tell me any other city in the USA that provides police protection for its former mayors.
NIMBY
Oops. Sorry. We didn’t want to use too much force to get in the way of a peaceful and they got past the barricade.
Her brain is in backwards. Call a sturgeon.
There you go, thinking again...
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