During the mass protest that erupted in Chicago over George Bush Jr.'s announcement that US troops were going into Iraq, the Mayor colluded with Police to unconstitutionally mass arrest and jail hundreds of peaceful protesters. It took almost a decade, but the city paid out a huge settlement to those arrested while engaged in first amendment protected activities.
Ever notice how the Party is tougher on progressives that belong to the party they’re protesting than they are on republicans trying to overthrow the national government?
It’s weird, right?
Especially this year, Biden should be inviting protestors front and center and engaging in a dialog.
That would actually get him votes at least. Even if he doesn’t budge at all, a dialog gets more votes than police abuse.
Like, the only reason there’s protests to begin with is we can’t open a dialog.
It’s like Biden doesn’t even want to campaign for votes. He’s not putting the work in that traditional candidates do. Probably because most Dem presidents are much younger than Biden.
False equivalence as the other guy said, but also Jan 6 was so much funnier. I think about the guy tazing his balls whenever I hear a media person say “civil war???”
The protestors against the nomination and selection of kavenaugh did not breach the doors, nobody died, proceedings were not disrupted, the aim of the protestors was not to lynch the sitting vice president and overthrow the government but to say “we shouldn’t hire a rapist,” no congresspersons toured the kav protestors, no congresspersons tweeted the live location of potential targets, … What, exactly, in your definition qualifies an insurrection? Could you define the word right now for us without looking it up? Would any dictionary agree with that definition?
This feeble attempt at rewriting history is shivering nude, though I admit I am glad you agree that J6 was an insurrection, even if to get there you had to draw this false equivalence.
“The origin narrative of the University of Chicago does not begin with John D. Rockefeller in 1890. It does not even begin in the city of Chicago. It actually begins on a 3,000-acre cotton plantation in Lawrence County, Mississippi. Hundreds of enslaved African American men, women, and children lived and died on that plantation to make the University of Chicago, and its $7 billion endowment, possible. The University of Chicago refuses to acknowledge this part of its heritage.”
While UChicago is home of the first Heisman Trophy winner and was a founding member of the Big 10 conference, football is definitely not what the Maroons are known for.
I highly doubt university endowments are heavily leveraged in such a small sector of the global economy. That would be recklessly undiversified for any portfolio and, well, stupid.
However, I would not be surprised if a significant number of their wealthy donors got mad about the protests. A lot of elites seem to have put their blinders on after October 7 and divorced themselves from the current reality on the ground.
UChicago administration needs to have their paychecks withheld until the seniors graduate. They need to do their job; no hand outs to lazy UChicago admins if folks did the work and dont graduate.
If you or a loved one has been arrested and is IN LOCKUP, please call the Cook County Public Defenders office at 844-817-4448. You will need the person’s full legal name and date of birth.
I don’t know how any of this works, so I’m interested to hear from people who do
I'm guessing that a public defender has better/quicker access to someone who is currently in jail than a "street" lawyer would.
What I do know is that you can get a public defender even if you don't qualify for one at no charge. You just have to pay for it. And you can change your attorney if you like, especially that early in the process. Getting legal advice as soon as possible is never a bad thing.
where exactly are these things located? according to heyjackass.com there have been nearly 1000 persons shot in Chicago YTD, but this report says that only 115 incidents on the shotspotter. Of the nearly 1000 most of them are single victim, but about 100 are multi, with 2 being the second most common after singles at 83 so far. A rough estimate still has the incident number being over 700 which is far different than 115
Shit’s been like that since at least 2004 in Chicago, and my bet is that everyone with the power to do anything simply can’t see the decline because it’s so slow. It was like this 20 years ago, it’s been fine for 20 years, so it’s gonna be fine for another 20, right? Then let some other poor sucker of mayor raise taxes to try and pay for shit.
The first bridge collapse I remember was Interstate 95 in CT back in 1983 (Mianus River). Ten years or so after that a bridge on the New York State Thruway collapsed. We clearly haven’t learned much in the past 40 years, so don’t hold your breath…
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