Colleen K. Connell
Executive Director, ACLU of Illinois
The lack of a defined, public strategy isn’t a criticism of city officials. The goal is to show that Chicago can embrace protest and the exercise of free speech rights.
True self-reflection would reveal to the mayor that she has become an obstacle to police reform — not the change agent she promised.
If you remove the arrests made on the first night of the curfew, an astonishing 93% of those arrested for curfew violations were Black.
Trump’s love for dictators and despots across the globe reflects his own desire to operate without limits or accountability.