WGN and WLS are covering it live, and a couple "protesters" were interviewed.

I can't think of the last time I heard anybody as stupid as they were! The crowd is around 1,000 if that many, the average IQ must be about 50.

Rauner caved, they're shutting down all the northbound lanes.

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Originally posted by newtoSig765:
WGN and WLS are covering it live, and a couple "protesters" were interviewed.

I can't think of the last time I heard anybody as stupid as they were! The crowd is around 1,000 if that many, the average IQ must be about 50.

Rauner caved, they're shutting down all the northbound lanes.

I am watching the same broadcast and thought the exact same thing.

Their IQ is probably a combined 50 with those 1,000 "people."

Special Eddie apparently "decided" he supports this, too, and is up front of it, arm-in-arm with Pfleger. I wonder who helped him "decide"?

Couldn’t happen to a nicer city.

Sounds like a job for these guys.

never an auger type snow plow around when you need one

Are there any sane people left in Chicago???

http://www.chicagotribune.com/...-20180706-story.html

Mayor to governor in war of words about Dan Ryan march: 'Delete your account'

Patrick M. O'Connell, Jeremy Gorner and Megan CrepeauContact Reporters
Chicago Tribune, July 7 2:18PM

Anti-violence demonstrators marched on the Dan Ryan Expressway on Saturday morning, eventually shutting down all northbound lanes after reaching an agreement with police on the scene.

Marchers initially occupied only the right lanes, with traffic able to crawl past in the left lanes. But a few minutes into the march, demonstrators stopped near 75th Street, where the Rev. Michael Pfleger and other organizers pressed the Illinois State Police for access to the entire expressway.

Pfleger and fellow activist the Rev. Jesse Jackson spoke with Chicago’s top cop Eddie Johnson and commanders with the Illinois State Police on the expressway, stating their desire and intention to shut down the entire expressway. The march morphed into a stationary protest as they waited for word on a resolution, chanting and banging drums.

After a flurry of negotiations, Illinois State Police and Chicago police officers allowed the marchers access to all northbound lanes. The protesters marched north until 67th Street, where a barricade of officers, highway trucks and emergency vehicles funneled them off the Dan Ryan.

Pfleger and Johnson then marched together, at one point arm in arm, as demonstrators walked north toward the city’s skyline.

The full shutdown of the northbound lanes in that section of the expressway lasted about an hour, with hundreds of demonstrators chanting and toting signs as they marched on the pavement.

Pfleger, a priest at St. Sabina Catholic Church, and other anti-violence protesters organized the march in an effort to press city officials to better address gun violence, joblessness and access to quality education.

“We came out here to do one thing: to shut it down,” Pfleger said, as the march wrapped up at 67th Street. “We came here to get their attention. Hopefully we got their attention. … Today was the attention getter, but now comes the action.”

Gov. Bruce Rauner posted a message on Twitter expressing his displeasure at the expressway shutdown, saying the full northbound lane closure was not what had been negotiated.

“This is unacceptable,” Rauner tweeted at noon. “We had clear parameters that allowed the protestors to be heard while respecting law and order. Instead, they chose instead to cause chaos.”

In a second posting, he criticized Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

“I’m disappointed in the Mayor. There was an agreement in place,” the governor wrote. “I am calling on the Mayor to take swift and decisive action to put an end to this kind of chaos. I will work with him in good faith and urge him to do his job so that the people of Chicago feel safe.”

But after the march ended about 12:30 p.m., Pfleger disputed there was an agreement in place for only a partial expressway shutdown. Pfleger said Rauner “tried to be an obstruction.” Pfleger said Johnson served as an intermediary between march organizers and the state police, negotiating for protesters to have access to all lanes.

“He stepped up,” Pfleger said. “… We gave them three weeks notice of what we were doing, figure it out!”

The war of words continued as Emanuel responded to Rauner on Twitter.

“It was a peaceful protest. Delete your account,” the mayor posted about 50 minutes after Rauner leveled criticism.

The northbound lanes came to a standstill during the march and southbound traffic slowed to gawk at the march. About 12:45 p.m., with the march complete and the roadway cleared of people, police began to reopen northbound lanes to traffic.

Just hours before the planned protest was to begin, state police announced they would work with protesters to grant access while keeping some lanes open for motorists.

Initially, state police allowed the marchers access to only the right side of the expressway. State police officials said in a statement that they would work alongside those from the Chicago Police Department and the Illinois Department of Transportation to provide “a safety barrier between the motoring public traveling on the interstate and the marchers.”

Demonstrators began their slow march onto the expressway shortly before 10:30 a.m., entering the Dan Ryan at the 79th Street ramp. Thousands of marchers walked slowly on the grassy shoulder beside the northbound lanes of the Dan Ryan. Some ducked under the Chicago Skyway sign.

“The blood of Jesus!” shouted Delores Bailey, mother of 15-year-old Demario Bailey who was fatally shot in 2014. “Put the guns down, keep the Bible up!”

“Teenagers get up front!” someone else shouted.

A contingent of Chicago police officers and Illinois state troopers stood in a line facing the crowd. Several Illinois Department of Corrections vans also blocked the roadway.

Before the shutdown, cars were allowed to pass through using the two outermost lanes and in some places, the single outermost lane.

Earlier, demonstrators gathered near 79th and State streets. Some hoisted signs that read “NO MORE DRUG WAR” and “NO GUNS,” with an illustration of a handgun crossed out. Another sign read “They Don't Care About Us,” with pictures of Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Gov. Bruce Rauner on each side. Some of them held up signs with the names of homicide victims. One person banged a drum.

The crowd also consisted of several elected officials, including U.S. Rep. Danny Davis, whose 15-year-old grandson Javon Wilson was shot and killed on the South Side in 2016.

They stood inside a fenced area along 79th Street east of State Street while representatives from St. Sabina got on bullhorns and implored protesters to step inside.

The Rev. Harolynn McIntosh, dressed in bright white robes, sat in her wheelchair in the lot near the expressway, waiting for the march to start.

“Every time I turn on the news and a child has caught a bullet ... that hurts my heart because they’re not going to fulfill their dreams,” said McIntosh, who worked at Chicago Public Schools for about 30 years and serves as a reverend at a South Side church.

McIntosh was joined by Charles Taylor, a 17-year-old from Evanston who met her by chance as the protesters gathered. Taylor agreed to push her wheelchair down the Dan Ryan.

“I’m really just showing support and making sure change comes,” he said.

The marchers were young and old, and the crowd was made up of a diverse blend of races and ethnicities.

“The violence has to stop,” said demonstrator Natalia Barrera, who attended the march with her son. “We need to spread love, not blood. It doesn’t matter if you live on the North Side, South Side, West Side, East Side, the point is this is our city at the end of the day.”

The state police statement issued in the morning said the agreement on the expressway patrols was reached through “ongoing discussion,” but also states the decision was made on Thursday. It wasn’t immediately clear why the notice was sent Saturday.

Pfleger this week said civil disobedience is what makes authorities and governments take notice and listen. He emphasized the march is only the first step “to draw the attention to the urgency of the problem.”

The next move, Pfleger said, is for concerned citizens from communities most beset by violence to sit down with Mayor Rahm Emanuel and other officials to discuss how to get more jobs and other resources to these neighborhoods.

The Illinois State Police, the agency in charge of patrolling the expressway, warned Pfleger and other activists they risked arrest if they proceeded with the Dan Ryan shutdown. Pfleger and the Rev. Jesse Jackson remained defiant, on Tuesday ripping up a statement from the state police.

“When people keep ignoring you, you take it up a notch,” Pfleger said earlier in the week.

The state police, meanwhile, warned pedestrians “not to enter any expressways in Illinois, or they will face arrest and prosecution.” The Cook County public defender’s office said it will be making lawyers available Saturday in the event of arrests. Public defenders will be able to help at Chicago-area police stations and at bond court at the Leighton Criminal Court Building.

The Rev. Jackson said Friday that the inconvenience to motorists will be temporary, while the conditions plaguing communities near the march site — job loss, shuttered schools and the collapse of manufacturing and industrial facilities — has been permanent.

“Nonviolent demonstration is sometimes the only way to get the attention that will help change things,” Jackson said. “I’m perfectly willing to be arrested to bring attention to this crisis. … Stopping traffic is less damaging than the shooting and the killing and the jailing.”

Jackson said the protest is designed to help spark more reinvestment in struggling South Side neighborhoods plagued by gun violence and “huge deserts for jobs and education.”

“We have an obligation to address those who have been abandoned,” Jackson said.

Chicago police said they are prepared to provide only crowd safety and traffic control functions.

“CPD will not participate in any physical arrests of those peaceful(ly) protesting gun violence,” police said in a statement.

On Friday, Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the department will be playing a supporting role for the state police. Several hundred Chicago police officers will conduct crowd and traffic control on the peripheral streets outside the Dan Ryan and its overpasses, Guglielmi said.

He said those officers will ensure that buses carrying protesters will be able to safely get in and out of the area.

Gun violence in the city remains a stubborn problem, although the number of shooting victims in Chicago has dropped since reaching a 20-year high in 2016. Two people were killed and six others were wounded Friday and early Saturday in shootings across the city, Chicago police said.

As of Monday, at least 1,378 people have been shot so far this year in Chicago, data compiled by the Tribune show. And at least 61 of this year's shooting victims have been children 15 and younger.

Saturday’s march on the expressway is not the first time a Chicago highway has been disrupted by demonstrators. In July 2016, protesters marched on the southbound lanes of the Dan Ryan Expressway for about five to 10 minutes in response to the deaths of two African-American men who were killed during confrontations with police in Minnesota and Louisiana. Last year, activists and homeless protesters briefly halted traffic on Lake Shore Drive to protest the city’s decision to clear areas beneath viaducts in Uptown. There also were a few Lake Shore Drive shutdowns by protesters after grand juries decided not to indict police officers in the police shootings of men in New York and Ferguson, Mo.


Chicago Tribune’s Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas contributed.

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Anti-violence demonstrators

No such animal. Your "right to protest" does NOT supercede my right to live a norml productive life.


Do we still have napalm in the stockpile?
"NAAAY-PALM STICKS TO KIDS"....(sung in a cadence...)

Illinois really needs to find a way to cut Chicago loose. It's like a drowning man with an anchor around his neck.

Except that the anchor is a windy bag of assholes.
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Oh, the protest worked so well! An extremely effective tactic in combating the violence!

http://www.chicagotribune.com/....html#nt=oft13a-1gp1


It worked for a few scant hours.

So maybe I am missing something....in the area I live in we have WAAAY more (and better quality) firearms than the south side and I have yet to experience one percent the violence the south side experiences

hmmmmmmm....

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Originally posted by mbinky:
Your "right to protest" does NOT supercede my right to live a normal productive life.

Well-stated, sir.

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Originally posted by dewhorse:
So maybe I am missing something....in the area I live in we have WAAAY more (and better quality) firearms than the south side and I have yet to experience one percent the violence the south side experiences

hmmmmmmm....

I think you're on to something!
It's got to be the Lorcins, Hi-points & Brycos...

People that own S&W, Sig Sauer, Remmington and Browning are much more sophisticated!
It's not the GUNS, it's the lack of QUALITY GUNS!

It can't be the lack of quality people or politicians (if there is such a thing).
Everyone here is so quick to blame everything BUT the actual problem.

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Originally posted by CPD SIG:
Oh, the protest worked so well! An extremely effective tactic in combating the violence!

http://www.chicagotribune.com/....html#nt=oft13a-1gp1


It worked for a few scant hours.

The radio news said that the Foolish Father declared it a 'victory'. Whutt??

So, the priest was protesting the violent tactics of the Left? You don’t see that very often.

It get's worse. Any hope for removing this asshole from St. Sabinas and shipping him to Siberia are gone. Cardinal Cupich said yesterday that he supports Father Faker. The Catholic Church in Chicago is doomed

Meanwhile in the rest of the Chicago:

I saw this on Second City Cop Blog this morning,
a Chicago judge released a guy who was charged with multiple felonies on a $400 bond with no electronic monitoring. The guy was a transport driver who twice sexually assaulted a 33 year old woman who has cerebral palsy and the mental functions of a six year old. Suspect saw two other judges who ordered him held without bond. Third judge released him on $400 bond and no electronic monitoring.

CWB Chicago News Story

Maybe, just maybe not releasing repeat violent offenders back onto the streets might work and lower some crime stats. The State of Illinois enacted extended sentencing for repeat felons possessing a firearm. So far this year, the Crooke County Prosecuting Attorney Kim Foxx has not charged one person under the new laws.