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S o what do these protests do?Good question. Space islimited, so let’s get to it.Six purposes:1. Protests provoke the wrong

being protested, flushing it into thelight. Civil rights demonstrationsworked because Southern sheriffsbroke out the dogs and firehosesand showed America exactlywhat these marchers were talkingabout. Had they broken out traysof pralines instead, we might stillhave segregated lunch counters.Protests against police brutalitywouldn’t be half as dramatic ifsome police didn’t, on cue, startbeing brutal, on camera, blast-ing peaceful protesters with teargas. Not many —most showedadmirable professionalism andrestraint. But it only takes a littlespit to spoil the soup.

2. Protests benefit the pro-testers themselves. Not contentto sit at home watching Netflixafter — oh, for instance — a policeofficer is captured on video slowlystrangling a black man who mayhave passed a bogus $20 bill, theyleap up, make signs, pour into thestreet, march, raise their voices.They’re doing something. True, the

problem being protested is neverfixed by the end of the day. But itisn’t as if they didn’t try. So pointsfor trying; it’s more than most do.

3. Protests are informational.The “If the czar only knew” aspect.At the 2012 NATO Summit in Chi-cago, young people covered them-selves in chocolate syrup and lay inthe street to draw attention to theoil sands situation in Canada. I hadnever heard of the oil sands situa-tion in Canada before, nor thoughtof it since. But they did raise theissue.

Is that happening now? Arethere really people watching TV,thinking, “What’s this about? Policebrutality? Tell me more.” Probably.Never underestimate the vastignorance of the American people.That’s like assuming you can wadeacross the Atlantic.

4. Protests persuade. Indiffer-ent John Q. Bovine looks up fromhis silage, sees the masses andmoos to his field mate, “That’s alot of people, Suzy. This must beimportant. Perhaps somethingought be done.” This occurs amonggovernors, mayors, police chiefsand such. Protests rearrange notjust their schedules now, cancelingvacations, ruining weekends thatshould be spent at New Buffalo,but later add bullet points to theiragendas.

5. Protests are a kind of black-mail. Those in charge promise afew grudging baby steps forward,if only to make the chaos stop.

They can’t ignore the violence thatcame in the wake of these pro-tests. Protesters insist they’re notconnected. But they are. Protestsopen the gap in ordinary life thatlooters rush through. The resulting

smoke obscures the protests fromthe sight of Fox News nation, whomost need to grasp their message.They instead point gleefully at theviolence to rationalize their tradi-tional indifference and contempt.Looting is the brass fireman’spole conveying them smoothly

from initial alarm to the cocoon ofvictimhood they call home.

6. Protests encourage change.Not force it. Not enact it. But dripsome grease into the seized-upgears of history. Just look to thepast. Years of massive Vietnamprotests did not end the war butnudged America toward calling itquits. The nation had to first seegays marching for AIDS researchbefore it would consider lettingthem be schoolteachers.

Not that change comes easily.Right now, the focus is on improv-ing the police, though that’s inad-equate, like trying to fix a smudgeon your cheek by polishing themirror. What will this reform be?Maybe a new training filmstrip:“Stop Killing People: An Introduc-tion.”

Change is possible. It is the

reason women can vote, Jewscan check into fancy hotels andblack people aren’t dragged intothe street and lynched for merelybeing suspected of a crime. Exceptthat last one is still a work inprogress.

In fact, change has been happen-ing rapidly. Bad change. Erosionof every legal protection, socialconvention, moral standard andAmerican value.

What we want to do is to slowthat deterioration and begin somegood change. Protest is part ofthat. Though I wish these march-ers were heading en masse to reg-ister to vote. Without getting theman cheerleading police violenceout of the Oval Office in November,all this is a waste. It won’t even bein the history books because guyslike Bill Barr will be writing them.

Protesters take a knee outside the Cicero Police Department on Tuesday. ASHLEE REZIN GARCIA/SUN-TIMES

What doprotests do?Quite a bit

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YEARS OF MASSIVEVIETNAM PROTESTSDID NOT END THE WARBUT NUDGED AMERICATOWARD CALLING ITQUITS.

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BY JONATHAN BALLEWChicago Reporter

After one of the most volatilemass protests in the city’s recentmemory sparked by the Minneapo-lis police killing of George Floyd,Chicago police are investigating atleast one officer for covering up hisbadge number and name tag.

Images and video circulating onsocial media show police officerswho appear to have either tapedover the name tags on their uni-forms and badge star numbers orremoved them entirely. In a state-ment to the The Chicago ReporterWednesday evening, the ChicagoPolice Department condemned thepractice.

“All Chicago police officers arerequired to wear their unit as-signment designator, nameplateand prescribed star so that theyare clearly visible. An internal in-vestigation has been opened intothe officer who was photographedwithout his unit assignment desig-nator and nameplate and with hisstar number covered. CPD holdsits officers to the highest profes-sional standards, and violations ofthe department’s policy will be ad-

dressed,” the department said in astatement.

Concealing those elements ofa uniform or failing to correctlyidentify themselves is specificallyprohibited by at least two Chicagopolice directives.

But theReporter has obtained im-ages and video that suggest multipleCPD officers may have been engag-ing in the inappropriate practice ofhiding their names or star numbers,which are the unique identifyingnumbers on an officer’s badge.

Kyle Wilkins, 29, took one photonear DePaul’s campus Sundayabout 8 p.m. and posted it to Twit-ter. The image shows an officerwith what appears to be duct tapecovering his star number.

“I think he put it on there to cov-er up his number,” Wilkins said.

Wilkins said once he and someother protesters began complain-ing, the officer removed the tapefrom the badge.

“It’s scary,” he said, “Becausemany officers weren’t even wear-ing their body cams, and makingit harder to identify them is veryconcerning.”

Ald. Andre Vasquez said

Wednesday his office fielded callsabout the “shameful” practice allday and he brought it up at CityHall during a meeting of the Com-mittee on Public Safety.

“It says a lot about folks whothink they need to tape up theirbadge,” he said. “What kind of ac-tivity does an officer plan on doingthat they cover up their badge?”

Vasquez said his office asked theLightfoot administration about thepractice on Tuesday.

“People want to equate us askingquestions as if these aren’t seriousmatters,” he said. “There is a his-tory of inappropriate policing inChicago. There is a reason why thetension here was different.”

On Monday, video surfaced onsocial media that showed a Chi-

cago police officer beating a manin Uptown during a demonstra-tion. Ephraim Eaddy, a spokesmanfor the Civilian Office of Police Ac-countability, told the Chicago Sun-Times the independent monitorreceived 82 complaints over theweekend.

On Tuesday, Mayor Lori Light-foot acknowledged in her State ofthe City speech that “the processof reform has been too slow and toonarrowly focused,” and pledged toinstitute immediate steps towardreform within the next 90 days in-cluding community-centered andde-escalation training, and mentalhealth support for officers.

In a statement to the Reporter,Chicago’s chapter of the FraternalOrder of Police said they “do notmake the CPD policy nor makethe department orders so we can’tspeak for CPD.”

The Reporter asked CPD aboutthe images and video that showmultiple officers engaging in thepractice, and whether there wouldbe a more comprehensive investi-gation beyond just one officer.

“All allegations that we are madeaware of will be addressed,” they

said in a statement.But CPD did not respond to

questions about how many allega-tions they were aware of.

Lightfoot’s office said she strong-ly condemned the practice.

“Wearing nameplates in uniformis the most universal form of trans-parency and accountability whenit comes to policing. All Chicagopolice officers are required to wearand make visible their unit assign-ment designator, nameplate andprescribed star. Should any officerbe found in violation of these poli-cies, we will ensure that they will beheld fully accountable,” her officesaid in a statement.

The Chicago Police Departmenthas been under a federal consentdecree since January 2019. An in-vestigation by the Reporter foundthat between 2011 and 2017, the citypaid $313 million to settle claimsof police misconduct. The tally for2018 alone was $113 million, accord-ing to the most recent analysis.

This story originally appeared inThe Chicago Reporter. JonathanBallew is a Chicago-based freelancejournalist.

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Before a crash involving police killed awoman in Lake View on Wednesday night,Chicago police radio traffic indicates the of-ficers had been told to stop pursuing a fleeingsuspect.

Officers were told at least four times toterminate the pursuit, according to the ra-dio traffic. Mayor Lori Lightfoot and ChicagoPolice Supt. David Brown declined to discussany specifics of the pursuit during a newsconference Thursday.

In light of that crash, Lightfoot said morechanges will soon come to CPD’s policy onpursuits.

“I’ve been very concerned about policepursuits since I became mayor,” Lightfoot

said. “The frequency ofthem, that they causedeath, they cause injury,property damage, thewhole works.”

Though the CPD’spolicy on pursuits wasupdated just 14 monthsago, Lightfoot said sheordered another evalua-tion of the policy last yearafter she took office.

“We will be making anannouncement shortly about what the newpolicy is and what the training plan is,” themayor said. “Police pursuits are, obviously,one of the most deadly and dangerous exer-cises that police officers are engaged in andwe want to make sure that, if that is neces-sary, it’s done in very limited circumstances,under full direction of a supervisor, and doneonly with marked vehicles with lights and si-rens so that when they’re racing through thestreets, people know that there’s an emer-gency that’s happening.”

The pursuit Wednesday night spannedwell over 30 miles and began on the FarSouth Side.

The chase began about 8:15 p.m. near 115thStreet and Cottage Grove Avenue when of-ficers noticed a vehicle possibly wanted forseveral crimes in nearby suburbs. IllinoisState Police said the Jeep was wanted in con-nection with at least one homicide.

The Jeep eventually led officers to theNorthwest Side where, according to policeradio traffic, the pursuit was ordered termi-nated. The Jeep later crashed near IrvingPark Road and Keystone Avenue. The driverran to a nearby gas station and stole an idlingNissan SUV, according to police. He thentook off east on Irving Park Road.

While chasing the Nissan with their sirensactivated, a marked squad car slammed intoa Ford Explorer traveling north on AshlandAvenue, police said. The driver, a 37-year-oldwoman, was taken to Illinois Masonic Medi-cal Center, where she died.

The Cook County medical examiner’s of-fice identified her as Guadalupe Francisco-Martinez. A GoFundMe page set up in hername said she had six children. “She was

such a strong, amazing and funny mother,friendandsister to everyone,”wrote the fund-raiser’s organizer, who did not respond to aninterview request.

The driver of the stolen Nissan SUV thenled police to Bridgeport on the South Side,where he crashed into a pole in the 900 blockof West Pershing Road, police said. He triedto run from the scene but was taken into cus-tody nearby. He was taken to the Universityof Chicago Medical Center in serious condi-tion.

Sustained high-speed pursuits by Chicagopolice are relatively rare, though they canprove costly for the city.

Chequita Adams was killed in a West Sidecrash in 2017 related to a police pursuit. Herfamily sued and was eventually awarded a

nearly $5 million settlement.Two years earlier, police were pursuing a

vehicle fleeing a shooting on the South Sidewhen the driver of the fleeing vehicle jumpeda curb and ran over 13-month-old Dillan Har-ris, killing him. The boy’s family filed a law-suit against the city, involved officers andthe driver, Antoine Watkins. The suit is stillpending.

The CPD’s directive on pursuits states of-ficers and their supervisors must perform a“balancing test” when deciding to pursue afleeing vehicle that’s wanted in connectionwith a serious crime, such as a shooting.

“All [police department] members in-volved in or supervising a motor vehiclepursuit must be prepared to justify their ac-tions,” the directive states.

A woman was killed Wednesday when her SUV was struck by a Chicago police car involved in a pursuit. ANDY BOYLE/SUN-TIMES

CHANGES COMING TOCPD PURSUIT POLICYBY SAM CHARLES, STAFF REPORTERscharles@suntimes.com | @samjcharles

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BY BRETT CHASE AND MATTHEW HENDRICKSONStaff Reporters

Thousands of people who are arrested,then processed at Cook County Jail and re-leased could be putting the public at risk ofbeing infected with COVID-19, according toresearch published Thursday.

The peer-reviewed analysis, publishedonline by the journal Health Affairs, showsthat COVID-19 case rates were significantlyhigher in ZIP codes with higher rates of ar-rest and released jail inmates.

Eric Reinhart, a Ph.D. candidate atHarvardUniversity’s Department of Anthropology,analyzed records for more than 2,000 inmatesreleased in March that he obtained throughan open-records request. He then linked thatinformation with COVID-19 data by ZIP codefrom the Illinois Department of Public Health.Reinhart concluded for each person arrested,there’s a risk of infecting at least two people inthe community with COVID-19, a multiplier ef-fect estimate he called conservative.

“For every person you put in jail, you’re go-ing to infect more people in the community,”Reinhart said in an interview.

In his analysis, the researcher said hisfindings may help explain “the striking racialdisparities” prevalent in COVID cases.

“Although we cannot infer causality, it is

possible that, as arrested individuals are ex-posed to high-risk spaces for infection in jailsand then later released to their communities,the criminal justice system is turning theminto potential disease vectors for their fami-lies, neighbors and, ultimately, the generalpublic,” the study said.

But Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart’s officestrongly disputed the study’s findings andsaid officials have taken extraordinary mea-sures to prevent the spread of the virus sinceearly outbreaks at the jail.

“This study is a fantasy filled with as-sumptions bordering on lies,” sheriff’s officespokesman Matthew Walberg said. “Thefocus is on outdated information and com-pletely ignores the fact that as a result of ourinterventions, cases at the jail have droppedprecipitously over the past month.”

At the end of April, state health officialsreported high numbers of African Americanand Latino residents tested positive for CO-VID-19, showing a disproportionate numberof cases. While African Americans make up14% of the state’s population, they represent-ed 29% of coronavirus cases.

Cases at the jail peaked at more than 300around that time.

“It shows that this infection within the jailcannot be contained within the jail’s walls,”

Alexa Van Brunt, an attorney with the Mac-Arthur Justice Center who is representingdetainees in a class-action lawsuit againstDart, said of the study. “The jail is part ofthe community, and the failure of the jail toprotect detainees puts the community indanger.”

A federal judge in April denied the law-suit’s request for a court order to release ortransfer elderly and medically compromiseddetainees during the outbreak, but approveda series of measures to reduce the spread ofthe virus, including directing the jail to housemost detainees in single cells and conductwidespread coronavirus testing — steps thesheriff’s office says it was already taking.

Sharlyn Grace, executive director of theChicago Community Bond Fund, a nonprofitthat posts bond for people who cannot affordit, called the study a “wake-up call for electedofficials” of the public health risks caused bypolicing and incarceration and said it showedthe need to keep the jail’s population reducedinto summer.

Reinhart said his findings were “especiallyrelevant” given recent mass arrests acrossthe country. In Chicago and cities across theU.S., thousands of people went to jail over thepast week related to protests.

Sheriff’s office records show bookings at

the jail jumped after days of citywide unrestfrom an average of about 100 per day to 170on Monday to 215 on Tuesday. Slightly lessthan half of people brought to the jail werereleased the same day. If a person is not re-leased the same day they are booked, theyare tested for the coronavirus that day andagain 14 days later. If a detainee tests positiveduring that window, they are held in isola-tion, the sheriff’s office said.

“As of [Wednesday], there were 36 detain-ees positive for COVID-19 at the jail, and 42jail staff members currently positive,” Wal-berg said. “More important, virtually all ofthe new cases in recent weeks have comefrom newly arrested individuals who testedpositive at intake, not from those who werealready in custody.”

Reinhart added that he focused his re-search on Cook County Jail, the largest in thecountry, because of its high number of coro-navirus cases. He said the Chicago jail couldbe indicative of a larger trend.

“What’s happening here, I have no doubtis happening across the country,” Reinhartsaid.

Brett Chase’s reporting on the environment andpublic health is made possible by a grant fromThe Chicago Community Trust.

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11 drive-thrutest sites nowopen to allNumber of new casesdeclines; 116 more deaths

BY TINA SFONDELES,POLITICAL REPORTERtsfondeles@suntimes.com | @TinaSfon

Another 116 people have diedin Illinois from COVID-19, but thestate also saw another declinein the number of daily cases onThursday, as officials announced11 drive-thru testing sites will beopen to everyone, regardless ofwhether they are experiencingsymptoms.

The state has lost 5,736 peopleto COVID-19. On Thursday, the Illi-nois Department of Public Healthreported 929 new cases out of22,841 tests results. That’s a 4.07%positivity rate, much lower thanwhat the state saw through mostof May.

The seven-day statewide positiv-ity for cases — one of the metricsPritzker and health officials areusing to guide reopening — is 6%.That seven-day figure remainingunder 20% for 28 days is one of therequirements for the state to moveon to the next phase of reopening.

The 116 deaths suggest COV-ID-19’s deadly phase is not over.But on a more promising note, the929 cases is the lowest daily tallyfor new infections since April 5,when the state saw 899.

The Illinois Public Health De-partment on Thursday announcedits 11 state-run drive thru CO-VID-19 testing sites would beopen to everyone. Previously, thesites were intended for those withsymptoms, asymptomatic peoplewho were in contact with COVID-19-infected people and essentialworkers and first responders.

“No appointment, doctor referral,or insurance is needed at state oper-ated drive-thru sites and testing isavailable at no cost to the individual,”the department said in a release.

The drive-thru sites are in Au-rora, Auburn Gresham in Chicago,Bloomington, Champaign, East St.Louis, Harwood Heights, Peoria,Rockford, RollingMeadows, SouthHolland and Waukegan.

The tiny cornerof Illinois that thecoronavirus forgotScott County only one in state withoutany reported cases of COVID-19

BY NEAL EARLEY, STAFF REPORTERnearley@suntimes.com | @neal_earley

WINCHESTER, Ill. — The virusthat has raced around the globe andkilledmore than 100,000 in the U.S.alone has yet to reach one smallcommunity in Illinois.

Scott County, with a populationof about 4,951, is the only one of Il-linois’ 102 counties that has not yetreported a single case of COVID-19.

The mayor of Winchester, the1,458-population county seat, sus-pects it’s because so few peoplemove in and out, lowering the riskof anyone bringing the virus in.

The local public health officialthinks theymight have actually hada few cases early on, but no onewasgetting tested back then.

Some residents — particularlythe younger crowd — think thewhole pandemic has been over-blown.

“We think it’s more political thananything,” said Dalton Schoen-felder, 20, a laid-off factory worker.“It’s not as bad as people portray itout to be.”

While many downstate Illinoiscommunities have been devastatedby the coronavirus and its econom-ic impact—with outbreaks at nurs-ing homes, businesses closed andworkers laid off, tiny Scott Countyis the corner of Illinois that thecoronavirus forgot.

No one knows exactly why thesmall, central Illinois county about250 miles southwest of Chicagohas been spared the worst of theoutbreak. Some attribute it to thesmall population.

“We just don’t experience theflow of people coming in and outlike youwould in some of these larg-er cities,” said Winchester MayorRexMcIntire.

Some point out that no reportedcases of COVID-19 does not mean

the virus hasn’t come to ScottCounty.

Some residents work in nearbyJacksonville, located in MorganCounty which has had 42 reportedcases of COVID-19 and one death. Afew Scott County residents work atthe nearby JBS slaughterhouse inBeardstown, located about 31 milesaway in Cass County, which hasseen 74 cases of COVID-19, someinvolving workers at the plant.

Steve Shireman, the health ad-ministrator for Scott County, saidit’s possible some had the virus ear-ly on, asmany in the county showedsymptoms but could not get tested.

In Winchester, the shops and sa-lons have just begun to slowly open,as in the rest of the state.

The heart of the city is Win-chester’s town square, a smallgrassy park home to a statue of Ste-phen Douglas, the Illinois Senatorwho famously debated AbrahamLincoln after squaring off with thefuture president in the Scott Coun-ty courthouse over the Kansas-Ne-braska Act in 1854.

The business strip had only justbegun to spring back to life a fewyears before the pandemic.

Andmany worried it would snapright back where it was, thanks toGov. J.B. Pritzker’s March 21 stay-at-home order.

Callie Gregory owns Studio 29Salon and Spa, just off the mainsquare. Like many across the state,she couldn’t get unemploymentbenefits because of the massivebacklog. Now, her salon is openagain, and she hopes the worst isbehind them.

“We’ve been here eight years,and in that eight years, a lot of smallbusinesses opened,” Gregory said.“And when you shut them down fortwo months, it’s like, wait a minute,we were just getting our little com-

munity going.”Jeff Pittman, an alderman in

Winchester and owner of The PittStop, a restaurant along the square,said he had to lay off his two full-time and three part-time waitress-es. Now, it’s just him and his son,with the occasional help from hisson’s girlfriend, serving take-out onthe sidewalk.

Three of his customers —Schoenfelder and two others— arein their early 20s, and all are skepti-cal of the severity of the pandemic.Young and old in the county agreethere’s a generational divide on theseriousness of the threat, with old-er residents worrying, and youngerfolk scoffing.

As he waits for his food, CamdenCockerill, 20, explains he was hurton his job in nearby Jacksonville,his left hand in a cast after a craneoperator dropped an I-beam on it

and “almost cut my hand in half.”Cockerill, now living on work-

men’s compensation, said the hos-pital wanted to administer a CO-VID-19 test before treating him inthe emergency room.

But Cockerill said his bossjumped in and argued that no onein Scott County was infected withthe virus, so they should just admithim right away to take care of hishand, which was basically “fallingoff.”

Like his boss, Cockerill is con-vinced Scott County has little tofear from COVID-19.

“None of us have changed,”Cockerill said of his friends. “Noneof us are wearing masks. All of usare still living our daily lives: go-ing boating, going four-wheel rid-ing, still riding bikes around towncoming to get food. None of us havechanged anything.”

Camden Cockerill (left) and Dalton Schoenfelder, two of Winchester’s youngerresidents who say they are skeptical of the severity of the pandemic.

Winchester Alderman Jeff Pittman (left) and Mayor Rex McIntire (right) with a friendoutside the Pitt Stop in downtown Winchester. NEAL EARLEY/SUN-TIMES PHOTOS

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BY MITCH DUDEK, STAFF REPORTERmdudek@suntimes.com | @mitchdudek

The family ofMiaWright called forCook County State’s Attorney KimFoxx to open a criminal investigationinto the conduct of a police officerwho draggedWright by the hair froma vehicle and knelt on her neck at aWest Sidemall over theweekend.

“There has to be justice for thefamily,” family attorney Nenye Uchesaid Thursday at a news conferenceheld in the parking lot of the Brick-yard Mall, a few steps from wherethe encounter with police took placeSunday afternoon.

Uche also called for the disorderlyconduct charge against Wright to beimmediately dropped.

Foxx’s office issued a statementThursday afternoon: “We are awareof the incident that occurred atBrickyard Mall and are currentlyconducting a thorough, indepen-dent review of the matter, includingthe conduct of the police officersinvolved. We take law enforcementaccountability seriously and havereached out to the family involvedthrough their attorney.”

The family still doesn’t under-stand why police targeted their carin the first place and is demandinganswers.

Wright was in the front passengerseat of her cousin’s car Sundaywhenpolice, for no apparent reason, beganto smash the windows of the vehiclewith batons and order everyone out.

An officer grabbed Wright’s hair,which had been wound into a bun,and yanked her from the car, Wrightsaid.

While Wright was on the ground,the officer knelt on her back andneck. Wright, who got a piece ofglass in her eye from the shatteredwindow, was held overnight at anearby police station, she said.

“All I thought about was whathappened to George Floyd and itcould have been another situationlike that,”Wright said Thursday.

Bystanders captured video of

the incident.Wright and three familymembers

were trying to exit the mall parkinglot after realizing the Target theywanted to go to was closed, familysaid.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot said inves-tigators with the Civilian Office ofPolice Accountability, which probesallegations of police misconduct, aretrying to determine the identities ofthe officers involved in the incidentand the context surrounding the en-counter.

At the conclusion of the investi-gation, COPA will share its findings

with Supt. David Brown and make arecommendation on any disciplinarymeasures it deems appropriate.

“Of course, I havemy ownperson-al opinion about it,” Lightfoot said ata separate news conference Thurs-day. “But I’mnot going to share it be-cause I don’t want to influence whatCOPA’s work is.

“No police department that Iknow, certainly no reputable one, al-lows for officers to put their knees onsomebody’s neck.”

Brown said he’ll be taking “swiftaction” as soon as he has COPA’sfindings.

Wright and her cousin, TnikaTate, 39, said police addressed themwith words such as “b----” and “sav-age.”

Tate is the manager of a SouthSide funeral home where Wrightworks.

Wright’s mother, Kim Woods, 55,who was also in the car, expressedanger and frustration Thursday.

“I’m rather pissed off at the mo-ment,” said Woods, who works as asecretary to the principal of Dett El-ementary School.

“I want her charges dropped, wedidn’t do anything,” she said. “I wantjustice for all three of us. I want jus-tice for the world. I don’t want any-one to have to go through this ever intheir life again.

“If you wanted our attention, allyou had to do was knock on the win-dow,” she said.

Uche said police should be trans-parent about what happened.

“They should just say theymade amistake,” saidUche, who plans to filea civil rights lawsuit against the Chi-cago Police Department on behalf ofthe family. “Obviously, they thoughtthey were someone else.

“We all saw the video, they didn’ttry to run.Whyuse that kind of forceif you’re not trying to provoke fearand chaos,” he said.

There had been looting at theBrickyard Mall on Sunday, Ald. Gil-bert Villegas (36th) told the ChicagoSun-Times. There were also nonvio-lent protests at themall, he said.

Wright said her family had noth-ing to do with protests or looting.They wanted to shop for party sup-plies atTarget but never evengot outof the car.

In an email, the police depart-ment said Wright “was observed byresponding officers assembled with3 or more persons for the purpose ofusing force or violence to disturb thepeace.” No additional details of theincident were provided.

Uche called the explanation bypolice “utter nonsense.”

Flanked by family members, attorneys and supporters, Mia Wright cries during a press conference Thursday in the parking lot of theBrickyard Mall as she discusses a violent encounter with Chicago police officers. ASHLEE REZIN GARCIA/SUN-TIMES

FAMILYCALLS FORCRIMINALPROBEOFCOPS IN BRICKYARDMALL INCIDENT

Woman says Chicago police officer dragged her by the hair from vehicle and knelt on her neck

“ALL I THOUGHT ABOUT WAS WHAT HAPPENED TO GEORGE FLOYDAND IT COULD HAVE BEEN ANOTHER SITUATION LIKE THAT.’’

MIA WRIGHT, who says a Chicago police officer yanked her from a car by the hair Sunday and knelt on her neck

The damage done to Mia Wright’s cousin’scar. PROVIDED PHOTO

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About 200 men and boys were silentThursday as they stopped traffic and formedthree lines in the intersection of 79th Streetand Racine Avenue on the South Side.

Soon, they all took a knee, raised fistsinto the air and reverberated their messagethrough the Gresham neighborhood: “Stopkilling us.”

The demonstration organized by St. Sabi-na church comes 10 days after George Floydwas killed after awhite officer pressed a kneeinto his neck while taking him into custodyin Minnesota. Floyd’s death was captured onvideo, sparking protests in Chicago and othercities across the nation.

TheRev.Michael Pfleger, of the Faith Com-munity of Saint Sabina, said the crowd of Af-ricanAmericanmen and boyswanted to refo-cus the protests after attention has turned tothose who have used the unrest to break intobusinesses and vandalize property. Pflegersaid it was time for the country to listen to themen, warning that what is happening now isonly a glimpse of what could happen.

“What started this was decades of blackmen being killed like animals in America, andnobody did a damn thing about it,” Pflegersaid.

The demonstration in the Auburn Gresh-am neighborhood started at St. Sabina,where William Hall led the group in prayerbefore they walked to the intersection, re-minding them that the same God watchingover them also watched over people such asHarriet Tubman.

“We thank you for the future to come, be-cause what’s to come is better than what’sbeen,” Hall said.

Some of the men wore T-shirts from his-torically black college fraternities while oth-ers wore T-shirts stating, “I can’t breathe”— Floyd’s repeated plea during the eightminutes the Minneapolis police officer knelton his neck.

James Ramos, of Humboldt Park, wasamong those in the crowd. He works for the21st Ward, but he’s also a member of AlphaPhi Alpha, a black fraternity, and joined aspart of a call for older members to show sup-port during Thursday’s demonstration.

“I wanted to make sure that this was acall for peace and a demonstration that menof color are not out here looting, commit-

ting violent acts, but are unified and are notcondoning the fact that there’s violence anddestroying of our communities,” Ramos said.“So I’m in support of that.”

Pedestrians on the street cheered on themen. Lisa Shaw, 56, traveled from her homein the south suburbs and raised her fist in theair in support of the group.

“This for my sons and my grandsons,”Shaw said, as she started to tear up.

Trevon Bosley, 21, of the Roseland neigh-borhood on the Far South Side, was one ofthree men who during the demonstrationread off different types of occupations thatAfrican American men hold. Bosley, an anti-violence activist and a Southern Illinois Uni-versity student studying electrical engineer-ing, said it was meant to point out what rolethey should have in the country.

“If we continue to be killed and locked upand different things like that, we will not beable to contribute to American society, we

won’t be able to better America,” Bosley said.Prosecutors in Minnesota have upgraded

charges against former Officer Derek Chauvinto second-degree murder and filed chargesagainst three other former officers on thescene when Floyd died. But Bosley, who is partof the Sabina’s B.R.A.V.E. Youth Leaders, saidthere are other police-involved deaths thatneed to be addressed in Chicago. Beyond po-lice reform, he said, Chicago officials shouldalso address issues such as education.

“We also don’t want the mayor just pro-tecting downtown from looters, we want herto protect the city as a whole, especially thesouth and west sides,” Bosley said.

Elvia Malagón’s reporting on social justice andincome inequality is made possible by a grantfrom the Chicago Community Trust.

Demonstrators walk down South Racine Avenue during a demonstration Thursday at 79th Street in Auburn Gresham. ANTHONY VAZQUEZ PHOTOS/SUN-TIMES

‘STOP KILLING US’Hundreds of men and boys march from St. Sabina to deliver message to publicBY ELVIA MALAGÓN, STAFF REPORTERemalagón@suntimes.com | @ElviaMalagon

Demonstrators kneel and hold their fists in the air topay respect to George Floyd at West 79th Street andSouth Racine in Auburn Gresham.

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Leo High students helpclean up Auburn GreshamBY ELVIA MALAGÓN, STAFF REPORTERemalagon@suntims.com | @elviamalagon

Cheerful photos of this year’s graduatingclass at Leo High School lined a fence at theAuburn Gresham school Thursday as part ofits efforts to clean up after some of the unrestin this week’s mostly peaceful protests overGeorge Floyd’s killing.

The private all-boys Catholic school, at7901 S. Sangamon St., wasn’t damaged orvandalized, but its faculty and predominatelyAfricanAmerican student bodywas deployedto help tidy up the neighborhood, in part, tocombat the images of those who broke intobusinesses and destroyed properties.

“It’s so damaging to the image of youngAfrican American males,” Leo High SchoolPresident Dan McGrath said. “We work withyoung African American males every singleday, and we know that they almost start outwith two strikes against them because of thejustice system.”

Principal Shaka Rawls said officials spentthe last week checking in with students andadvising them to stay indoors over concernsfor their safety. Many of the boys know theparticipants in the local protests who filledthe streets after Derek Chauvin, a whiteMin-neapolis police officer, knelt on Floyd’s neck,leading to the African Americanman’s death.

“They [students] wanted to know theirpart and their place in all of this, which wasactually the birth child of this event here,”Rawls said. “We needed to do something,they wanted to do something.”

The teenagers swept 79th Street betweenHalsted Street and Racine Avenue Thurs-day afternoon. Some of the boys used theirbrooms to clear out grass and spread mulchout on the sidewalk.

The school later passed out meals to mem-

bers of the communitywhere several business-es, including aWalgreens, were boarded up.

Tyler Smith said he didn’t go to any of theprotests because he didn’t want to catch CO-VID-19. The 15-year-old, who will be a sopho-more in the fall, said he was helping clean upso incoming freshmen could start their highschool careers in a fresh environment. Healso said he wanted his peers and neighborsto stay safe.

“Check in on your loved ones,” the teen-ager said. “Live life to your fullest.”

Elvia Malagón’s reporting on social justice andincome inequality is made possible by a grantfrom the Chicago Community Trust.

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Tyler Smith, a Leo High School sophomore, attendsthe cleanup Thursday. ANTHONY VAZQUEZ/SUN-TIMES

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Man who tried to tackle cop latest to face gun charge after weekend violenceBY JON SEIDEL,FEDERAL COURTS REPORTERjseidel@suntimes.com | @SeidelContent

A man who allegedly tried totackle a Chicago police officer afterhe was caught inside a looted liquorstore is the latest to face a federalgun charge in connection with theviolence last weekend.

The feds say police called to the

liquor store in the 5500 block ofWest North Avenue around 6 p.m.Sunday because of looting andshooting found Jeremiah J. Scott,21, inside. Police said the front doorwas damaged.

Officers told Scott to leave theliquor store, but as he did so, hetried to run away, according to afive-page criminal complaint filed

Thursday. Then, when police triedto take him into custody, Scott al-legedly tried to tackle an officer tothe ground by grabbing both of theofficer’s legs.

The officers arrested Scott fordisorderly conduct, according tothe complaint. When searchingScott, police said they found a blacksemi-automatic handgun with

an extended magazine kept nearScott’s groin. The feds say the gunhad been stolen on June 11, 2019.

Scott was convicted in 2018 ofaggravated unlawful use of a weap-on in Cook County and sentencedto two years of probation, accord-ing to the complaint. He is nowcharged in federal court with illegalpossession of a firearm.

Federal prosecutors have so farcharged at least six people withgun crimes related to the lootingand rioting in Chicago. They havealso charged a Galesburg man whoallegedly traveled first to Minne-apolis and then Chicago to loot andriot, and they charged a Pilsen manwith arson for setting fire to a Chi-cago police vehicle.

RAPPER’SRAGEMensa calls for ‘end to police brutality,’saying that if officers charged in

George Floyd killing were bad apples, it’s time to‘cut down the tree’

BY RACHEL HINTON, STAFF REPORTERrhinton@suntimes.com | @rrhinton

Rapper Vic Mensa joined CookCounty Board President ToniPreckwinkle at a Thursday newsconference focused on encouragingpeople to help repair small busi-nesses that were looted or vandal-ized, but the singer and activist saidthat if people really want to cleanup the community, “don’t wait untilit burns down.”

The Chicago rapper said the“real looting” is the schools closedon the South and West Sides, whilea new police academy is beingplanned and the black bodies “sto-len by police officers in our city andacross our nation.”

Mensa and Preckwinkle spoke atthe East 47th Street headquartersof Mensa’s SaveMoneySaveLifeFoundation, which promises to useart and entertainment “to fostersustainable change.”

Mensa called for an “end to po-lice brutality,” saying that if officerscharged in George Floyd killing inMinneapolis were bad apples, it’stime to “cut down the tree.”

Preckwinkle spoke of the neigh-borhoods and businesses that wereransacked over the past few days assome used peaceful protests follow-ing Floyd’s death in Minneapolis bypolice as a cover to loot businesses.

Preckwinkle encouraged peopleto help “repair the devastationwe’re facing” and acknowledgedthat many feel “frustrated, trauma-tized and exhausted” by the coro-navirus pandemic, the high rates ofunemployment and the toll of rac-ism.

“Along with these protests wemust return to rebuilding our com-munities that have been devastatedby looting and destruction,” Preck-winkle said. “We must protect ourfamily-owned, minority-ownedbusinesses who are still cleaningup broken glass and decimated

shelves.”Preckwinkle said thousands of

residents have already stepped upto help with neighborhood cleanup,and she encouraged everyone “to

continue forward in the spirit ofcommunity.”

Mensa focused on what sparkedthe protests in the first place, notthe looting that also occurred.

“The real looting is the loot-ing of the body of George Floyd,the looting of the body of LaquanMcDonald, the looting of the bodyof Rekia Boyd,” Mensa said, refer-

ring to two Chicagoans whose kill-ings at the hands of police madeheadlines. Mensa also namedBreonna Taylor, killed by policein Louisville earlier this year, andRonald “Ronnie man” Johnson,killed in Chicago in 2014.

“What I will march for is anend to police brutality. What I willmarch for is defunding police. Thisis not a situation of bad apples …only so many bad apples, and youmust have a rotten tree, at whichpoint we need to cut the tree downand replant it.”

Mensa and Preckwinkle werejoined by Cook County Commis-sioner Bill Lowry, Chicago Board ofElections Commissioner JonathanSwain, who owns Kimbark Bever-age Shoppe in Hyde Park, and oth-er small business owners.

Swain said the business has beenin his family since the 1970s. He saidlast week, a group of people in cars“broke our doors, ran our store andransacked our business.”

Swain said he doesn’t condoneburglary or looting but knows thatthe unrest seen in recent days wasbrought on by “generation upongeneration of racial injustice andeconomic injustice.”

Those injustices also make itharder for black businesses to re-cover, Swain said.

“When it comes to rebuilding ourbusinesses in our community, orour homes, our families do not havethe wealth to rebuild and don’t havethe wealth to provide collateral forbank loans,” Swain said. “So we arein a more desperate challenge. Sowhat I would encourage folks to doas wemove forward— let’s channelour energies in the right directiontoward protests and civil disobedi-ence, let’s make sure that we areinvesting in our businesses. Let’skeep the spotlight on the real causeof our frustration, not how we com-municate it.”

Chicago rapper Vic Mensa speaks Thursday about the death of George Floyd, which sparked protests around the country. SCREEN IMAGE

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Staff trimmed at Lincoln Park Zoo

LincolnParkZoohasbecomethe latestof thecity’s cultural institutions to trim its staff, blam-ing coronavirus-related financial difficulties.

The zoo has cut 18 employees, about 7% ofits staff, a zoo spokeswoman said.

“Today is a difficult day for the LincolnPark Zoo family. Having to say goodbye tostaff with a reduction in force is always a lastresort. The financial burden of the COVID-19pandemic has become too large to carry ourcurrent salary investment,” zoo spokeswom-

an Jillian Braun said in a statement.Cost-saving measures already in place

weren’t enough, Braun said.“Lincoln Park Zoo is expecting a budget

shortfall of $2.5 [million] to $5 million, mini-mally, this fiscal year,” she said. “The zoois hopeful we will see a significant influx ofearned revenue with a safe reopening.

“However, we do not know what the futurewill bring and will not be able to recoup thefunds lost during the closure. We hope toreopen the zoo and share the joys of wildlifeagain as soon as possible.”

BY STEFANO ESPOSITO, STAFF REPORTERsesposito@suntimes.com | @slesposito

Registration for Chicago Park Dist. summer camp begins Monday

Every summer, the city’s parks echo withthe shrieks and giggles of kids enjoying soc-cer, swimming, tennis and countless otherfun activities.

Registration is set to begin Monday, June11, for the Chicago Park District’s Day Campabbreviated program. Don’t expect your kidto have quite the same experience as in yearspast. For one, there’s no swimming or fieldtrips — and kids will be expected to bring

and wear masks every day.Camp organizers say children should ex-

pect smaller group sizes, social distancingand if they have any possible symptoms ofthe coronavirus, they will be isolated and aparent will be called to take them home.

Day camp runs from July 6 through Aug.14 at 148 parks across the city.

For more information and start times, go tohttps://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/pro-grams-memberships/day-camp

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BY JON SEIDEL, TIM NOVAK AND MARK BROWNStaff Reporters

Former state Rep. Edward “Eddie” Ace-vedo has been drawn into the ongoing fed-eral public corruption investigation that hasgone quiet but not dormant amid the coro-navirus pandemic.

Days after Gov. J.B. Pritzker issued hisstay-at-home order, federal prosecutorssubpoenaed the Illinois secretary of state’slobbyist division for all records related toAcevedo, as well as Michael and AlexanderAcevedo and the Acevedos’ lobbying com-pany, Apex Strategy LLC, records show.

The Chicago Sun-Times obtained a copyof the subpoena through a Freedom of In-formation Act request. The Acevedos havenot been accused of wrongdoing. EdwardAcevedo told the Sun-Times he had “noclue” what prompted the subpoena. Michaeland Alexander could not immediately bereached for comment Thursday.

“I have no idea what that’s about,” Ed-ward Acevedo said.

Secretary of state records list MichaelAcevedo as Apex’s manager, and Edwardand Alexander Acevedo as previously reg-istered lobbyists. Alexander Acevedo ranin 2016 to replace Edward, his father, in theLegislature but lost. He then ran in 2019to replace Danny Solis as alderman of Chi-cago’s 25th Ward in yet another losing bidafter Solis was revealed by the Sun-Times tobe cooperating with federal investigators intheir investigation of Chicago political cor-ruption.

Michael Acevedo is also a son of EdwardAcevedo, according to sources.

The grand jury number on the Acevedosubpoena matches that in the case againstAld. Edward M. Burke (14th). The subpoenaasked for the records to be submitted byApril 15. Though Burke has a status hear-ing scheduled next week, it’s unclear if it willgo forward. Judges at the Dirksen FederalCourthouse are just starting to play catch-up after the coronavirus put most proceed-ings on hold there for months.

For a year now, Burke has faced racketeer-ing charges in a stunning indictment filed inMay 2019. It accused him of using his positionon the City Council to steer legal business tohis private firm and quoted him allegedly us-ing such colorful phrases as “the cash regis-ter has not rung yet” and “did we land . . . thetuna?”

Edward Acevedo said Thursday he had

“nothing to do” with Burke, Solis or formerstate Sen. Martin Sandoval, who has al-ready pleaded guilty to corruption chargesin a separate case.

After the onset of the coronavirus pan-demic in March, federal prosecutors initial-ly reported trouble convening grand juries.However, grand jury indictments began toappear again in early May following a nearlytwo-month hiatus.

Edward Acevedo, 56, had been a correc-tional officer with the Cook County sheriff’soffice when he was hired by the Chicago Po-lice Department in June 1995. Acevedo laterwon election to the Illinois House of Repre-sentatives, representing several South Sideneighborhoods, including parts of the 11thWard, the political power base of the Daleyfamily.

Acevedo also worked as a lobbyist for Au-rora Venegas, the owner of Azteca SupplyCo., who went to federal prison for defraud-ing the city of Chicago and the village of Or-land Park on government contracts.

Acevedo and state Sen. Tony Munoz, an-other former Chicago police officer, got the

Legislature to pass a bill to sweeten theirpensions by giving them extra credits to-ward their police pension for every day theyserved in the Legislature.

The feds revealed their ongoing publiccorruption investigations in November 2018when they famously raided Burke’s City Halland ward offices. Since then, several politi-cos have found themselves in the feds’ cross-hairs. In addition to Burke, prosecutors havecharged former state Rep. Luis Arroyo withpaying a bribe to an unnamed state sena-tor. A source has identified that senator asTerry Link, though Link has denied it.

State Sen. Thomas Cullerton is alsocharged with embezzlement and was ex-pected to go to trial next month, thoughChicago’s chief federal judge has said therewill be no criminal jury trials until Augustbecause of the coronavirus.

Sandoval pleaded guilty in January, ad-mitting in a plea agreement that he tookmore than $250,000 “in bribes as part ofcriminal activity that involved more thanfive participants.” Sandoval also agreed tocooperate with prosecutors.

Federal prosecutors subpoenaed the Illinois Secretary of State’s lobbyist division for all records related toformer state Rep. Edward Acevedo (above). SETH PERLMAN/AP FILE

Subpoena draws ex-Rep.Acevedointo feds’political corruption probe

Mayor condemnsvigilantism afterBridgeport patrol

Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday de-nouncedvigilantismafteragroupofmenarmedwith baseball bats, pipes and other weaponsseemingly patrolled Bridgeport a night earlier.

Reports of the vigilante posse, made upmostly of white men, come amid civil unrest.As the city continues to experience a wave oflooting and vandalism, some residents havebanded together and taken to the streets toprotect their neighborhoods.

On Thursday, Lightfoot told reporters thatit’s “absolutely not appropriate for people totake up arms, bats, pipes, whatever in patrol-ling neighborhoods.”

“We’veseenthatendwithtragicresultsacrossthe country and we’re not about to allow thatpractice to happen here in Chicago,” said Light-foot, encouraging residents to call 911 for help.

“I absolutely support neighbors beingvigilant as to what’s going on on their streetsand in their blocks,” she added. “But takingup arms, that leads to chaos, and we’re notsupporting vigilantism in the city of Chicagounder any circumstances.”

Despite the mayor’s assurances, someBridgeport residents reported that policeofficers on the scene failed to intervene andeven chatted with some members of thegroup of dozens, many of whomwere seen al-legedly menacing people in the area.

Megan Merrill, a volunteer for GreaterBridgeport Mutual Aid who lives in theneighborhood, said she saw someone in thegroup attempt to stick something in the bi-cycle wheel of an Asian man at 31st Streetand Princeton Avenue. “The whole reasonthat the cops are supposedly present andcracking down is to prevent violence and toprevent property damage,”Merrill said. “Andthey witnessed one of the guys trying to at-tack a person of color ... on a bicycle and theydid nothing.”

A group of men congregate at 31st Street and Prince-ton Avenue on Wednesday night. PROVIDED

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BY FRAN SPIELMAN,CITY HALL REPORTERfspielman@suntimes.com | @fspielman

With a renewed sense of urgen-cy, Chicago aldermen on Thursdayheld what once would have seemedlike a politically volatile debateabout granting some form of repa-rations to descendants of African-American slaves.

The death of George Floyd at thehands of now-former Minneapolispolice officers — and the anger, ri-oting and violence it continues totrigger — has turned a political hotpotato into an open wound and apressing need.

African Americans have bornethe brunt of coronavirus cases anddeaths, exacerbating a nine-yeargap in life expectancy betweenblack and white Chicagoans.

Long-neglected South and WestSide neighborhoods were also rav-aged by looters and arsonists afterthe downtown area was sealed offon Saturday night. That has de-prived some inner-city neighbor-hoods of the groceries and pharma-cies they tried so long and hard toattract.

“Downtown is gonna be finenext week. It’s gonna look like noone has ever been down there [towreak havoc]. Our neighborhoods?I don’t know how soon we come outof this,” said Ald. Roderick Sawyer(6th), the City Council’s reparationschampion.

Against that backdrop, theSawyer-chaired City Council Com-mittee on Human Relations metThursday to consider his resolutioncalling for the creation of a “ChicagoCitizens of AfricanDescent Repara-tions Commission.”

No vote was taken, but only be-cause public notice of the meetingwasn’t posted in time. The commit-teewillmeet to vote at 3 p.m. Friday.

The 16-member commission

would be charged with holdinghearings and developing a plan to“ensure equity, equality and parityfor citizens of African descent inChicago who are mired in poverty.”Itwould remain in place for 20 yearsto monitor and ensure compliance.

Members would include: MayorLori Lightfoot or her designatedrepresentative; five members ofthe City Council; and 10 membersfrom the public, with at least eightof those from the “eligible impactedcommunity.”

An earlier version had the teethof an ordinance and called for aseries of commitments from cash-strapped city agencies, includingfree rides on the CTA, free tuition atCity Colleges and a bigger share ofcity contracts. That was scrapped

because, as Sawyer put it, “It wasover the top.”

Thursday’s debate was part his-tory lesson, part emotional cathar-sis.

Researcher Cecile Johnson laidthe groundwork by discussing the“tale of two cities.”

With charts and graphs, John-son laid bare Chicago’s long and

documented history of racial seg-regation and inequity — in housing,education, employment, health careand criminal justice.

She talked about the five “elementsof genocide,” which include higherrates of infant mortality and suicide,exposure to environmental toxins,substandardaccess to foodandhealthcare and the fact that 50% of the chil-dren in foster care are black.

“Blacks in Chicago are experi-encing all sides. Not just one ele-ment,” she said.

Johnson said Chicago needs“more than a conversation” aboutreparations. The city needs an “in-vestment in the black community”because “a great harm has beendone to us” by policies “put intoplace by our elected officials.”

“As we see from some of thesethings that have happened in recentdays, there is such a despair. … Theyouth are crying out,” she said.

Ald. Andre Vasquez (40th) saidhe doesn’t need the “data points”because “we’re living through it. …We’re watching exactly what con-tinues to occur and has occurred forgenerations because of clear racistpolicy, racist culture.”

Ald. Walter Burnett (27th) saidit’s “a shame that we’re talkingabout reparations related to whathappened years ago when we werein slavery” when African Ameri-cans in Chicago are “still sufferingthe same consequences” today.

“I’m hoping that, with what’s go-ing on right now with all of theseprotests, and the unfortunate deathof my brother, that people will wakeup, look at themselves in the mirrorand say, ‘When that African Ameri-can comes in to get a job, did I justturn him down just because he’sAfrican American? Or did I just goto the white guy because I feel com-fortable with him? Or do I look at allof these people as though they’recriminals?’”

Sawyer said he has no idea pre-cisely what form reparations willtake in Chicago, only that the debateabout “finding ways to put blackpeople on a level playing field” mustbegin.

“If we don’t start having the con-versation, nothing’s going to hap-pen. People will put a George Floydsign up in the window and thinkthat’s all they need to do. And they’llgo on about their lives thinking ev-erything is OK,” Sawyer said.

“We didn’t get here overnight.I’m sure we’re not gonna get out ofit overnight. But, if we don’t starttalking about it, the pressure willkeep building. Like a teapot, thatpressure has to escape some kindof way.”

A RENEWED PUSHFOR REPARATIONS

Council taking up topic as killing of George Floyd — and anger it has triggered — reopens nation’s racial wounds

Residents clean up the street Wednesday in front of a Dollar Tree on the corner of Chicago and Homan avenues. BRIAN RICH/SUN-TIMES

“AS WE SEE FROMSOME OF THESE THINGSTHAT HAVE HAPPENEDIN RECENT DAYS, THEREIS SUCH A DESPAIR. …THE YOUTH ARECRYING OUT.’’CECILE JOHNSON, researcher

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Black Lives Matterprotesters marchin Garfield Ridge

Black Lives Matter activists brought theirmessage for police reform Thursday to theheart of a Southwest Side neighborhoodthat’s home to thousands of Chicago policeofficers.

About 300 protesters rallied outside Ken-nedy High School, 6325 W. 56th St., beforemarching peacefully through Garfield Ridge,once home to Jason Van Dyke, the ex-officernow behind bars for killing LaquanMcDonald.

A bastion of “white flight” dating back tothe Civil Rights Movement, the neighbor-hood is now mostly white and Latino — anda key place to try to change attitudes in thewake of the Minneapolis police killing ofGeorge Floyd, activists said.

“This neighborhood isn’t a place to bescared of,” marcher and Garfield Ridge resi-dent Crystal Gonzalez said. “Black peopleand all people of color shouldn’t feel like, ‘Oh,that’s a part of town I can’t come by.’ Thisturnout is important because it shows thisisn’t that type of neighborhood, and maybewe can take a small step in the right directionof more peace, more friendliness.”

Organizer Dave Ruiz called Floyd’s death“the straw that broke my back.

“It just added to the frustration I was feel-ing about the fact that reforms were failing,our police departments were failing, and thatvoices like mine weren’t being heard,” Ruizsaid. “And that our community especiallydidn’t have representation on the matter.That’s why we’re here.”

Edward Pledger came from Kenwood totake part. “To see again that people are will-ing to step up, to say something— it’s a greatthing.”

The chanting crowd, mostly kept on thesidewalk by about 30 officers riding alongsideon bicycles, marched for about three miles,drawing curious looks from some residents— and cheers and car honks from others.

“The community was cheering us, wasvery supportive and very respectful, in gener-al,” organizer Nikola Stamenkovic Diez said.

MaryShilney joined residents fromnearbyClearing who stood along 55th Street hand-ing out cold water bottles to marchers at thetail end of the trek on a hot spring afternoon.

“Black lives domatter. I would love to hearthem say ‘all lives matter.’ But they’re peace-

ful, and that’s what’s important,” Shilney said.Recording video of the march as it passed

her home, Leticia Lopez said her neighbors“are good people.

“There are people who can be bad in anycolor or race. But we can always do better,”Lopez said.

A handful of older white men held Ameri-can flags as they looked on from across Ar-cher Avenue, a busy commercial strip in theneighborhood. One who said he’s from Gar-

field Ridge called it “stupid to watch this ig-norance,” cursed at a reporter and declinedto share his name.

Beyond a few profanities, the demonstra-tion was purely peaceful — and effective, ac-cording to organizer Stamenkovic Diez.

“I think it’s going to create productive dia-logue, that’s going to hopefully, pragmatically,change the future,” he said.

Another rally is scheduled for 6 p.m. Fri-day at Union Park.

BY MITCHELL ARMENTROUT, STAFF REPORTERmarmentrout@suntimes.com | @mitchtrout

Hundreds participate in a Black Lives Matter march through the Garfield Ridge neighborhood on the South-west Side, Thursday afternoon. ASHLEE REZIN GARCIA/SUN-TIMES

Navy Pier is set to “cautiously” re-open Wednesday,but without the Centennial Wheel and with “socialdistancing ambassadors” reminding visitors to besafe. ERIN BROWN/SUN-TIMES

Navy Pier set for ‘cautious,’ phased reopening without CentennialWheelNavy Pier is set to “cautiously” reopen

Wednesday but without the CentennialWheel and with “social distancing ambassa-dors” reminding visitors to be safe.

“Following Navy Pier’s longest closure inrecent history, we, along with the rest of Chi-cago, are anxious to reopen our spaces andsafely welcome guests back to the pier overthe next few months as we work collectivelyto restore our local economy,” MarilynnGardner, Navy Pier president and CEO, saidin a statement.

“We recognize that our new reality is nowaccompanied by new standards, and as thepeople’s pier, we are committed to doing ev-erything in our power to ensure the health,safety and comfort of all who visit the pier.

Our goal is to provide guests with a safespace to reconnect with Chicago through our

free public programs, on-site local dining, re-tail and attractions, and our beloved vistasand vast green space.”

The pier is one of a number of popularChicago-area attractions set to reopen in alimited fashion in the coming days, includingthe Chicago Botanic Garden and The Mor-ton Aboretum.

Among those areas at the pier to reopento the public Wednesday: the parking garag-es, outdoor restaurant spaces, the north andsouth docks, Polk Bros Park, Peoples EnergyWelcome Pavilion and Pier Park, pier offi-cials said.

Staff are expected to frequently disin-fect high-touch areas of the pier and about75 hand sanitizer dispensers have been in-stalled for public use. The social distancingambassadors will roam the pier to “cordially

remind guests to practice physical distanc-ing.”

“Gathering of large groups of 10 or morepeople are strictly prohibited,” according toa pier statement. “Guests in violation of thispractice will be subject to removal from thepremises.”

The Chicago Children’s Museum and theChicago Shakespeare Theater will remainclosed during the first phase of the reopen-ing, officials said.

Navy Pier has been closed sinceMarch 16.The Chicago Botanic Garden is set to

open its doors June 9, with the opening of a2.3-mile perimeter walk, a loop of the garden.Visitors, including members, are required topreregister for a specific date and time. TheMorton Aboretum reopened to membersJune 1.

BY STEFANO ESPOSITO, STAFF REPORTERsesposito@suntimes.com | @slesposito

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Leaders urge avoiding‘Oppression Olympics’

B efore friction between black and browncommunities in Chicago gets more outof hand, African American and Hispan-ic elected officials gathered on theWest Sideon Thursday to plead for unity in the wake ofthe brutal death of George Floyd.

SenateMajority LeaderKimberly Lightford,D-Maywood, said therewas no point for eithergroup “to standhere and fight each other forcrumbs— for crumbs.None of uswin if we aretoo busy competing in theOppressionOlympicsinstead of focusing on getting our fair share.”

Lightford plus other black and browncity, state and congressional leaders — allDemocrats — gathered outside the aptlynamed Healing Temple Church of God inChrist, 4941 W. Chicago Ave., on a hot day toturn down the heat.

They came together as protestscontinue in Chicago and other citiesbecause Floyd, anAfricanAmerican,died after awhiteMinneapolis policeofficer pinned himdownwith hisknee for 8minutes and 46 seconds.

Looters, exploiting peacefuldemonstrations, ransacked storesaround the city and in some suburbs,destroying the lives and livelihoodsof small-business ownerswhomaynot have the resources to reopen, es-pecially if theywere drained of cashbecause of the COVID-19 shutdown.

Once again, we’re at a place we’ve been:organizing after a horrible death of an AfricanAmerican involving a white police officer whochose to use excessive force when there werealternative ways to respond. The officers onthe scene who watched while Floyd died havealso been charged. All four have been fired.

This comeswhilewe are stretched as neverbefore, trying to copewith theCOVID-19 calam-ity—shining a light onwhite privilegewhileexposing black and browndisparities in termsof infections, deaths and economic impact.

The Chicago Sun-Times reported Thurs-day that some gang members were amongthe residents guarding local businesses,leading to racial profiling and incidentsin Pilsen, Little Village and some othercommunities, raising racial tensions. Theheadline on Marlen Garcia’s Sun-Times col-

umn said, “African Americans, Latinos mustunite in fight against racism.”

On Thursday, they tried, led by U.S. Reps.Danny Davis, who is black, and Jesus “Chuy”Garcia, who represents the only Hispaniccongressional district in Illinois.

“We know that friction has been develop-ing between black and Latino citizens, resi-dents and street organizations,” Davis said.

“We plead with our young people. We un-derstand your pain and frustration. But weplead with you, with every fiber of our being,let’s not violate each other. Let’s not fight, butlet’s unite,” Davis said.

Garcia said, “We need to studyour history and appreciate over400 years of slavery, Jim Crow andinstitutional white supremacy andinstitutions in America.

“We are at a crossroads. And wemust find common ground. Let mebe clear, our path forward must becentered from, and with, our unity.”This unity “is essential if we areto progress, as a nation and as acommunity here in Chicago and inIllinois.

“No single piece of legislation can bringback the countless innocent lives lost orerase the legacy of racism, but we mustdemand concrete reform to end police bru-tality and dismantle a racist criminal justicesystem; and we will, we must make sure thatcops fired for violent offenses can never berehired anywhere,” Garcia said.

Davis and Garcia are looking for millionsof dollars of “new” government money tohelp black and brown neighborhoods, strug-gling already because of the pandemic.

The office of Ald. EmmaMitts (37th) isdown the street from the Healing Temple.“We are intertwined with each otherthroughout the city of Chicago. Black andbrown are living side by side,” she said.

There is no reason to fight over crumbs.Said Mitts, “We don’t need no division rightnow.”

LYNN SWEETD.C. DECODER

lsweet@suntimes.com | @lynnsweet

U.S. Rep. Jesus“Chuy” Garcia

State Senate Majority Leader Kimberly Lightfordspeaks Thursday. TYLER LARIVIERE/SUN-TIMES

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Mayor urged to giverestaurants a lifeline

Mayor Lori Lightfoot was urged Thurs-day to throw a financial lifeline to Chicagorestaurants fighting for survival after theone-two punch of rioting and the stay-at-home shutdown.

Ald. Ray Lopez (15th), the mayor’s mostoutspoken City Council critic, wants thecity to grant a free, 60-day sidewalk cafépermit to “any restaurant or bar” meetingthe city’s requirements for a sidewalk café.

The alderman said he was joined by theBack of the Yards Neighborhood Coun-cil and 25 “family-owned restaurants andbars” in Brighton Park, Back of the Yardsand Little Village.

“We need to be bold in our efforts inhelping our local businesses in every neigh-borhood in Chicago,” Lopez was quoted assaying in a press release.

“We have the tools now to allow, withinthe context of the law, the ability to issuelegitimate permits. Lightfoot has the emer-gency authority to defer fee collections.”

Illinois Restaurant Association Presi-dent Sam Toia said the request from Lo-pez doesn’t go nearly far enough.

Toia wants the city to waive its 0.5%restaurant tax for the rest of the year andgrant free sidewalk café permits good forsix months. The sidewalk café permit waiv-er alone could save restaurants $500 to “afew thousand” dollars for a restaurant with“a lot of sidewalk space” in the Central Busi-ness District.

“The restaurant community here in thecity of Chicago has been hemorrhaging.

There are 7,500 restaurants here in Chica-go. Half of ’em are not even open right now.The other half that are open are doing curb-side pick-up, delivery and carry-out— [and]are doing 20-to-30 percent of the businessthey were doing a year ago,” Toia said.

“No restaurants model out there couldsustain itself going 10, 11 weeks with nosales or only 20 to 30 percent of the salesthey were doing the previous years.”

This week, Chicago restaurants wereauthorized to open for outdoor dining.