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<p>Chicago’s top cop on Wednesday said his officers are preparing to walk a fine line during this summer’s <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024-democratic-national-convention" target="_blank" >Democratic National Convention</a> by allowing protesters to have their voices heard while tamping down any violence or vandalism.</p><p>During a City Hall news conference detailing convention planning, Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling said departmental training has focused on learning from the department’s past failures and building on the successes, such as the response to the 2012 NATO Summit.</p><p>“We want to make sure that we maintain peace. We’re going to police constitutionally, but we’re also not going to tolerate the violence,” said Snelling, who was joined by Mayor Brandon Johnson and other officials discussing the convention, scheduled for Aug. 19-24.</p><div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center>
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<p>Snelling made a distinction between <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024/1/30/24056307/lgbtq-organizers-appeal-denial-of-permit-to-march-during-democratic-convention" target="_blank" >the types of demonstrations that are expected</a> during the Democratic convention and “pop-up” protests that were sparked by George Floyd’s murder at the hands of a Minneapolis cop that gave way to widespread looting and gun violence.</p><p>He specifically pushed back on a scathing report by the city’s inspector general’s office that found officers were “outflanked, under-equipped and unprepared,” and that the department “critically disserved both its own front-line members and members of the public.”</p><p>“This was a bunch of protesters who converged upon the city,” he said. “There was civil unrest across the entire city. It was violent, there were vehicles burned, officers were attacked, people were murdered in the middle of this. I don’t believe the report accounted for that.”</p><p>Snelling acknowledged, however, officers had not been “properly prepared.”</p><p>But he noted that the handling of the NATO Summit “proved that our officers could provide a service in a large-scale protest that was completely constitutional,” crediting the use of bicycles, <b>“</b>soft uniforms” and deescalation tactics.</p><p>“We were proactive, but what we didn’t want to do is overreact,” he said. “And our officers did not do that.”</p><p>The police handling of the Floyd protests was also lambasted by the team tracking the police department’s compliance with a federal court order mandating sweeping changes to policies and practices.</p><p>Snelling said the department is now working closely with that team to make sure officers have the green light to use certain tactics ahead of the convention.</p><p>In recent months, Snelling said, officers “have responded in an incredible way” to large-scale protests, such as those calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war.</p><p>“We haven’t seen things get out of control or get out of hand,” he said. “We’re working with organizers to make sure that we have a clear understanding of what those organizers are looking for, what they want, their route."</p><p>Looking forward to the convention, Snelling made a commitment to residents across the city that “your neighborhoods will be safe” even as police resources are stretched.</p><p>Asked whether he will request assistance from the Illinois National Guard, Johnson said officials “haven’t made a determination of what else is needed.”</p><div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center>
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<p>Although the Secret Service will establish the usual perimeter and will secure convention sites at the United Center and McCormick Place, the mayor made a point of saying his handpicked superintendent will be in charge elsewhere.</p><p>Johnson is a former paid organizer for the Chicago Teacher’s Union who made his bones in the protest movement. With those roots, he’s not about to be heavy-handed with the protesters who are certain to descend on Chicago.</p><p>“The spirit in which I bring to the conversation is, I’ve been someone who’s been a part of large-scale protests,” Johnson said. “In fact, Black liberation is tied to large-scale protest. We just want to make sure that it’s done in a safe and secure area, so that right to assemble doesn’t get taken over by individuals who have other interests.”</p><p>Ahead of the Democratic National Convention in 1996, Mayor Richard M. Daley was determined to ensure it didn’t devolve into chaos as it had under his father in 1968. The younger Daley notably spent millions of dollars to sanitize the city and clean up the route to the United Center.</p><p>Johnson said he has no plans to sweep out homeless encampments in the West Loop before this year’s convention.</p><p>“My approach toward dealing with the unhoused in the city is not contingent on the Democratic National Convention,” the mayor said. “I do believe that this convention has enormous potential to leave a lasting impact on the city of Chicago, the people of Chicago. That’s what my focus has been on. The DNC did not bring about homelessness. Failed policies have been brought about homelessness.</p><p>“I want it to be emphatically clear that my approach toward the homelessness crisis is a part of my core conviction and values, and that it is not related to whether or not a convention comes to the city,” Johnson said — just as news broke that the Illinois appellate court ruled that votes would be counted on his signature referendum authorizing a real estate transfer tax increase to raise $100 million a year to combat homelessness.</p><div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center>
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<p>Officials still haven’t designated a specific protest area, where permitted demonstrations have historically been directed for major events. No one explained where that staging area would be, or what would happen if people show up elsewhere and demonstrate without permits.</p><p>The reach and speed of the internet and social media have vastly expanded since the NATO Summit, as evidenced by the teen mass gatherings that seemingly crop up out of nowhere and sometimes devolve into violence, as one did last weekend.</p><p>Jeff Burnside, the convention coordinator for the Secret Service, showed reporters a color-coded map of the security perimeter around the Moscone Center in San Francisco when the city hosted the Asian Pacific Economic Forum in November.</p><p>He pointed to a green outer perimeter where people could move freely but vehicles would be screened. He then highlighted a smaller red interior zone where only shoppers, residents and credentialed attendees could gain access.</p><p>The specific boundaries of the Chicago map will be finalized in the coming month, after a canvass of residents and businesses within the potential zones.</p><p>Typically, events such as the Democratic and Republican conventions receive $50 million from the federal government. However, a bill introduced last year by Rep. Mike Quigley, D-Ill, that would increase funding to $75 million for both conventions passed in the House Wednesday.</p><p>A vote in the Senate is expected later this week, Quigley said in a statement. During the news conference, Johnson said he’s hopeful Chicago will receive the full amount.</p><p>“We will ensure that this event is a success,” the mayor said. “I look forward to our continued partnership to make this city’s [the] best convention yet in the history of this country.”</p><p><i>Contributing: Lynn Sweet</i></p><div class="RichTextSidebarModule Enhancement" data-module data-align-center><a class="AnchorLink" id="module-930000" name="module-930000"></a>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>The CTA van Darion Lindsey admitted he helped set fire to on May 30, 2020.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>U.S. District Court records</p></div></div>
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<p>A Park Forest man admitted Thursday that he helped set fire to a Chicago Transit Authority van and threw lit fireworks at members of the Chicago Fire Department amid the rioting that broke out in the city in May 2020. </p><p>Darion Lindsey, 22, now faces a likely prison sentence of around three or more years. U.S. District Judge John Blakey scheduled his sentencing hearing for April 25, at which point Lindsey’s attorney said he’s likely to ask for time served. </p><div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center>
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<p>U.S. Magistrate Judge David Weisman ordered Lindsey detained in April 2021, and he remains in custody in Chicago’s Metropolitan Correctional Center, records show.</p><p>Federal prosecutors originally charged Lindsey in February 2021 with <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2022/5/24/23140277/chicago-2020-riots-man-admits-setting-fire-cta-van" target="_blank" >Denzal Stewart and Lamar Taylor</a>. Stewart and Taylor previously pleaded guilty to an arson conspiracy and civil disorder, and Lindsey joined them in doing so Thursday.</p><p><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2022/11/21/23471241/denzal-stewart-george-floyd-riot-cta#" target="_blank" >Stewart was sentenced</a> in 2022 to three years and nine months in prison, and he is set to be released in July, records show. <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2022/12/20/23519136/lamar-taylor-setenced-fire-cta-van-downtown-chicago-protests-george-floyd-murder" target="_blank" >Taylor got 26 months</a> behind bars and left custody in March 2023.</p><p>But questions about Lindsey’s mental competency delayed his case. U.S. District Judge John Lee ordered in February 2022 that Lindsey be examined by a licensed or certified psychiatrist chosen by the Federal Bureau of Prisons.</p><p>Meanwhile, prosecutors filed a new set of criminal charges against Lindsey in May 2023. On Thursday, Lindsey admitted to Blakey that he traveled downtown on May 30, 2020 — the day protests over the police murder of George Floyd gave way to rioting in Chicago — and used a lighter to set fire to a yellow blanket or tarp inside the unoccupied CTA van.</p><p>Stewart and Taylor also admitted helping set fire to that van, which “became engulfed in flames,” according to Lindsey’s plea agreement.</p><p>Lindsey also admitted Thursday that he tried to interfere with members of the Chicago Fire Department by lighting and throwing fireworks at them. </p><p>Also prosecuted for setting fire to government vehicles during the May 2020 riots were Timothy O’Donnell and Jacob Fagundo. O’Donnell, who wore a Joker mask that day and set fire to a Chicago police vehicle, <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2022/6/22/23178866/joker-chicago-rioting-timothy-odonnell-george-floyd" target="_blank" >was sentenced to 34 months in prison</a> by U.S. District Judge Andrea Wood. He was released from custody in November 2022, records show. </p><p>Meanwhile, U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman sentenced Fagundo, who set fire to a police SUV, to <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2021/7/14/22577053/chicago-man-three-years-probation-set-fire-police-vehicle-may-2020-rioting-george-floyd" target="_blank" >three years of probation</a>.<br></p>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Tuesday meeting of the Chicago City Council’s Rules Committee saw more chaos and shouting from the public in the Council chambers as committee members debated whether to place a referendum on the March ballot that would allow voters to weigh in on how the city responds to the migrant crisis.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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<p>Mayor Brandon Johnson’s allies tried Tuesday to approve their own, softer version of a non-binding referendum on Chicago’s burgeoning migrant crisis but failed after being shouted down by an angry crowd ordered forcibly removed from City Council chambers.</p><p>“Sergeant-at-arms, clear the room,” Rules Committee Chairwoman Michelle Harris (8th) shouted after Chicagoans opposed to housing the new arrivals shouted down Council members on both sides of the issue.</p><p>Several people in the gallery, including a woman in tears, were escorted out by security after another observer singled them out as supporters of welcoming migrants.</p><p>“These are the people who are against us,” a man shouted, pointing at those being escorted out and waving other angry crowd members over.</p><p>Loud boos followed and persisted until the sergeant-at-arms restored some semblance of order about 10 minutes later. Amid the chaos, the Rules Committee was recessed until Nov. 16. That’s the day after the Council is scheduled to take a final vote on Johnson’s $16.6 billion budget.</p><p>“Do you want a race war?” one woman shouted at the height of the vitriol.</p><p>Ald. Anthony Beale (9th) has been trying for weeks to put <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2023/9/26/23890935/migrant-crisis-chicago-sanctuary-city-binding-referendum-chicago-voters-beale-city-council" target="_blank" >an advisory referendum on the March ballot asking voters if Chicago should remain a sanctuary city</a>.</p><p>Frantic efforts to prevent that from happening at a special City Council meeting last week ultimately resulted in the bullying and manhandling allegations against Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35th) that <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2023/11/6/23948485/ramirez-rosa-resigns-zoning-chair-city-council-floor-leader-mayor-brandon-johnson" target="_blank" >forced Ramirez-Rosa to resign</a> as the mayor’s floor leader and Zoning Committee chairman.</p><div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center>
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<p>Tuesday’s Rules Committee meeting was called to substitute Beale’s simple sanctuary city question for a softer, more innocuous version.</p><p>The mayor’s version would say: “Should the city of Chicago impose reasonable limits on the city’s providing resources for migrant sheltering, such as funding caps and shelter occupancy time limits, if necessary to prevent a substantial negative impact on Chicago’s current residents?”</p><p>Ald. Ray Lopez (15th) said that lengthy and toothless question is fundamentally flawed.</p><p>“Should we limit what we spend? ... What happens when you reach the limit? What are you going to do when you say, ‘We’ve spent all the money we’re willing to spend’ and you still have buses arriving here?” Lopez said, raising his voice to be heard above the shouting from the gallery before it was cleared.</p><p></p><p>“This question does not answer the issue as to why people continue to be shipped to the city of Chicago. And they are shipped here because we remain unabashed in saying a welcoming city, a sanctuary city. Even though Republicans and Democrats are now taking full advantage of that.”</p><p></p><p>As the shouting continued, Lopez said, “We need to vote this down. We need a clean referendum that simply puts the question to all of Chicago: ‘Shall we remain a sanctuary city?’ Because what we know, and what so many in this room fear, is that the true coalition between the African American and Latino communities does exist around this question because both communities want an end to it.”</p><p>Beale noted Chicago spends “up to $40 million a month” on <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration" target="_blank" >a migrant crisis</a> that has prompted Johnson to race to open winterized base camps in impoverished Black and Hispanic neighborhoods that don’t want those tent camps before temperatures plummet to get migrants off police stations floors.</p><p>The intense public anger now on display at every Council and committee meeting is because of efforts to “shut people out from having a voice,” Beale said.</p><p>“When you don’t want the people to hear you — when you don’t want the people to have a voice — you have chaos. … That’s why you’re seeing the chaos in this city. Because you’re trying to silence the voice of certain people who just want to be heard,” Beale said.</p><p></p><p>“Give the people of Chicago a voice, you all. Give the people a chance to say ‘yes’ or ‘no.’ We don’t want people to be disenfranchised,” he said. “That’s what this is doing. This is really throwing fuel on the fire.”</p><p></p><p>After the chaos, most public observers for the ensuing full Council meeting were relegated to a balcony viewing area that’s glassed off from the chamber.</p><h3>Council votes to acquire site for temporary migrant camp</h3><p>Also at Tuesday’s meeting, the City Council voted to accept donated land at 115th and Halsted streets. That site, slated for a retail/residential project, would in the near term become a winterized camp for asylum-seekers.</p><p>Last week, the Housing Committee voted to accept the 6.5 acres and 67,797-square-foot building donated by Albertsons Cos., parent firm of Jewel, which had operated the now-vacant grocery store.</p><p>But the full Council delayed the deal at its last meeting when local Ald. Ronnie Mosley (21st) reiterated his concern it would delay development of the mixed-use project, known as Morgan Park Commons.</p><p>The ordinance approved Tuesday includes an amendment that eased Mosley’s concerns. It states the site would be used as a tent city for migrants but “not beyond Nov. 21, 2024.”</p><p>“I like it when we work together. That’s exactly is what this is about. I’m looking to the future — a future that includes Morgan Park Commons that is a regional redevelopment project that is going to be a catalyst for my ward,” Mosley said Tuesday.</p><p></p><p>“I have to first thank my colleagues here who gave me the support to be in this position today. And Mr. President, I have to thank you who met with my community who heard their concerns and made commitments and put them in a place where they are good with this. So, I’m good with it. And I ask my colleagues to support it.”</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Ald. Anthony Beale at Tuesday’s meeting of the Chicago City Council’s Rules Committee.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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<img class="Image" alt="Tyre Nichols was beaten by members of a Memphis police crime-suppression unit Jan. 7 near his home. He died at a hospital three days later." srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/fd5b75d/2147483647/strip/true/crop/6000x3367+0+316/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2FD4HIFZ8XPiRXApgc7NwkDhf70po%3D%2F0x0%3A6000x4000%2F6000x4000%2Ffilters%3Afocal%283000x2000%3A3001x2001%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F24917619%2FTyre_Nichols_Lawsuit.jpg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/936b882/2147483647/strip/true/crop/6000x3367+0+316/resize/980x550!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2FD4HIFZ8XPiRXApgc7NwkDhf70po%3D%2F0x0%3A6000x4000%2F6000x4000%2Ffilters%3Afocal%283000x2000%3A3001x2001%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F24917619%2FTyre_Nichols_Lawsuit.jpg 2x" width="490" height="275"
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Tyre Nichols was beaten by members of a Memphis police crime-suppression unit Jan. 7 near his home. He died at a hospital three days later.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Associated Press</p></div></div>
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<p>MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Five former Memphis police officers were charged Tuesday with federal civil rights violations in the beating death of Tyre Nichols as they continue to fight second-degree murder charges in state courts arising from the killing.</p><p>Tadarrius Bean, Desmond Mills, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin and Justin Smith were indicted in U.S. District Court in Memphis. The four-count indictment charges them with deprivation of rights under the color of law through excessive force and failure to intervene, and through deliberate indifference; conspiracy to witness tampering; and obstruction of justice through witness tampering.</p><p>The charges come nine months after the violent beating during a Jan. 7 traffic stop near Nichols’ Memphis home, in which they punched, kicked and slugged the 29-year-old with a baton as he yelled for his mother. Nichols died at a hospital three days later. The five former officers, all Black like Nichols, have pleaded not guilty to state charges of second-degree murder and other alleged offenses in the case.</p><p></p><p>“We all heard Mr. Nichols cry out for his mother and say ‘I’m just trying to go home,’” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a video statement after the indictment. “Tyre Nichols should be alive today.”</p><p>U.S. Attorney Kevin Ritz in West Tennessee said at an afternoon news briefing that the state and federal cases are on separate tracks. Ritz declined to predict how quickly they would proceed.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Top row from left: Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III. Bottom row: Desmond Mills Jr. and Justin Smith. The five former Memphis police officers are now facing federal civil rights charges in the beating death of Tyre Nichols.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Associated Press</p></div></div>
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</div><p>Kristen Clarke, who leads the U.S. Department of Justice’s civil rights division, said at the appearance that the five former officers used excessive force, failed to advise medical personnel about Nichols’ injuries and conspired to cover up their misconduct.</p><p>“In our country, no one is above the law,” she said, adding she met earlier Tuesday with Nichols’ mother and stepfather.</p><p>Caught on police video, the Nichols beating was one in a string of violent encounters between police and Black people that sparked protests and renewed debate about police brutality and police reform in the U.S.</p><div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center>
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<p>Nichols’ mother, RowVaughn Wells, said she was surprised that the federal charges “happened so quickly.” The investigation that led to the indictment was announced in the weeks after the Jan. 7 beating death.</p><p>She said her son was a “free spirit.”</p><p>“He should be here today,” she said during a news conference at a Memphis church. “Because of those five officers, he’s not.”</p><p>Attorneys for several of the former officers said the indictment was no surprise, and some added that their clients will defend themselves against the charges.</p><p>The indictment says the officers failed to tell dispatchers, their supervisor and emergency medical technicians they knew Nichols had been hit repeatedly, trying to cover up their use of force and shield themselves from criminal liability.</p><p>Additionally, the indictment alleges instances where the officers used their body cameras to limit what evidence could be captured at the scene: Martin moved his body camera where it wouldn’t show video of the beating; Haley and Smith activated theirs only after the assault; and Haley and Mills took theirs off when emergency medical personnel were on the scene.</p><p>At the arrest scene, the officers afterward discussed hitting Nichols with “straight haymakers,” even as Nichols’ condition deteriorated and he became unresponsive, the indictment said. Nichols could be seen on police video on the ground, slumped against a police car.</p><p>The indictment accuses the officers of gathering after the beating and saying, among other things, that “I thought when he wasn’t going to fall, we about to kill this man.” The indictment does not specify which officer made that statement.</p><p>The indictment also alleges the officers falsely stated Nichols actively resisted arrest at the beating scene and that he grabbed Smith’s protective vest and pulled on the officers’ duty belts.</p><p>A hearing was set for Friday morning in a federal lawsuit filed by Nichols’ mother against the five ex-officers, the city of Memphis and its police department. The former officers then have a scheduled appearance Friday afternoon in state court.</p><p>The Justice Department announced an investigation in July into how Memphis Police Department officers use force and conduct arrests, one of several “patterns and practices” investigations it has undertaken in other U.S. cities.</p><p>In March, the Justice Department said it was conducting a separate review concerning use of force, de-escalation strategies and specialized units in the Memphis Police Department.</p><p>The officers were part of a crime-suppression team that officials disbanded after Nichols’ death. However, members of that “Scorpion” unit have been moved to other teams.</p><p>Elsewhere, a federal civil rights case was filed last year against four Louisville, Kentucky, police officers over a drug raid that led to the death of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman whose fatal shooting helped fuel racial justice protests that swept the nation in 2020. In Minneapolis, former police officers were convicted of violating the civil rights of George Floyd, whose death sparked those protests. Former officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 21 years after pinning Floyd to the pavement for more than nine minutes as the Black man pleaded, “I can’t breathe.”<br></p>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks at a news conference at City Hall on gun violence prevention efforts.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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<p>Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Tuesday she has yet to see a plan that would allow statues of Christopher Columbus she ordered removed from Grant and Arrigo Parks two years ago to be safely returned to their pedestals without endangering Chicago Police officers.</p><p>Three days after her Monuments Commission released its long-awaited report recommending the Columbus statues be permanently sidelined — and the Balbo Monument in Burnham Park be removed — Lightfoot strongly suggested that the political hot potato would be punted until long after the Feb. 28 mayoral election.</p><p>Never mind that the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans is demanding that Columbus statues that became a favorite target of protests and vandalism during the civil unrest that followed the May 2020 murder of George Floyd be returned to Grant and Arrigo parks by Columbus Day and protected at city expense. </p><p>“Particularly with the statue in Grant Park, we have to have a safety plan that doesn’t put anybody at risk. If you go back and look at the videotape from when that monument and the police officers were under siege, there were so many things that could have gone wrong from a safety standpoint,” Lightfoot said Tuesday.</p><p>“We had people trying to scale the thing. Imagine if that statue had tumbled over with people trying to scale it. We had our police officers under siege. I’m never gonna put them in a situation where they’re literally risking their lives over a statue. That’s never gonna happen.”</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Chicago police stand by the Christopher Columbus statue in Grant Park after protestors tried to bring it down in 2020.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times file</p></div></div>
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</div><p>Lightfoot reiterated that she doesn’t “believe in erasing history.” That’s why she’s been “talking to lots of folks about what can we do, how can we do it” to secure the Columbus statues. </p><p>But, the mayor also said, “Particularly with the statue in Grant Park, we have to have a safety plan that doesn’t put anybody at risk. ... I have not seen or heard of a single plan that could allow these monuments to go back outside and keep everybody associated with them safe.”</p><p>The Monuments Commission has also recommended that 41 of the 500 Chicago monuments deemed racist or insensitive be removed, moved elsewhere, replaced or altered to provide more context.</p><p>That includes a controversial recommendation to remove the limestone reliefs on the DuSable Bridge at Wacker Drive and Michigan Avenue depicting the Battle of Fort Dearborn. </p><p>The committee found that the works were created “within an allegorical narrative of the triumph of Western civilization [in which] American Indians are used as merely a foil to help define the heroic acts and qualities of colonizing forces.”</p><p>That won’t happen anytime soon, either.</p><div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center>
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<p>“It’s easier to say, ‘This should go, that should go’ than make it happen. For example, the reliefs that are on the Fort Dearborn Bridge. Easier to say, ‘Let’s remove these because they don’t accurately reflect the true experience of Native Americans in our country and in our city. But, just the mechanics of doing that are very, very complicated,” the mayor said.</p><p>“So, I think the next step is really looking at, ‘Okay, if we’re gonna do these things, what is it gonna take? What’s it gonna cost? What’s the timeline?’ That’s the next step of that work.” </p><p>Lightfoot made it clear she does not agree with “everything” in the report she commissioned.</p><p>But, the mayor said she’s “excited” about the recommendation” to offer $50,000 grants for eight new art projects that might replace the monuments under review with an eye toward memorializing “events, people or groups that historically have been excluded or underrepresented.”</p><p>“I do think that there’s a dearth of work really memorializing the entirety of our history as a city. Making sure that we’ve got images that reflect — not only Native Americans [although] that would be a big step forward. But, we don’t have a lot of monuments to women. We don’t have a lot of monuments to other immigrants and refugees. We don’t have a lot of monuments to African Americans,” she said.</p><p>“The people who have, over history, contributed in a positive way to the fabric of our community. There are so few memorializations of those historical figures — sung and unsung. I think we have a real opportunity here. ... This is so much larger than whether there’s a Columbus statue in Grant Park,” Lightfoot said.</p><p>Ron Onesti, president of the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans, said Lightfoot’s plan to appoint yet another “working group” — and punt the Columbus statues hot potato until long after the mayoral election — may not be possible.</p><p>A court order may force the mayor’s hand by Columbus Day, Onesti said. </p><p>“We’re equally concerned about the safety and security of not only the statues but the citizens and the police specifically. Definitely, we want to address that. ... We’ve been asking for that. We thought it should come from the city. Since it’s been two years, we have taken it upon ourselves to start that ball rolling with suggestions from professional organizations and companies that do this kind of thing,” Onesti said. </p><p>“She’s not given us the respect of saying, ‘Let’s sit down with this group and work it out. Let’s come up with a resolve.’ It’s been, ‘The statues are down’ and no further information. Are they going up? Are they not? What do you need? Let’s work together and put a plan together. That’s what incited the lawsuit.” </p><p>To implement the security plan devised at the Joint Civic Committee’s expense would cost “anywhere from $10,000 to $100,000,” Onesti said.</p><p>The recommendations range from cameras, motion detectors and 24-hour guards to “plexiglass encasement” and “coatings” on the statues “so that clean-up is easier,” he said. <br></p>
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2022/8/23/23318887/christopher-columbus-statues-return-security-lightfoot-mayor-joint-civic-committee-italian-americansFran Spielman2022-02-03T22:05:43.04-06:002022-02-04T14:45:07-06:00Jason Van Dyke, Laquan McDonald fallout: Protesters arrested calling for federal charges against Van Dyke: ‘We’re gonna shut down the entire city of Chicago’
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<img class="Image" alt="U.S. Marshals confront protesters inside the Federal Building on Thursday in the Loop. The protesters were seeking federal charges for Jason Van Dyke, the Chicago police officer who killed Laquan McDonald." srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/caaab5e/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3000x1684+0+158/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2FKDobthHGxFGzkwTO1_Ht2LPQlmY%3D%2F0x0%3A3000x2000%2F3000x2000%2Ffilters%3Afocal%281500x1000%3A1501x1001%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F23217344%2FVANDYKE_020422_5.jpg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/d3de351/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3000x1684+0+158/resize/980x550!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2FKDobthHGxFGzkwTO1_Ht2LPQlmY%3D%2F0x0%3A3000x2000%2F3000x2000%2Ffilters%3Afocal%281500x1000%3A1501x1001%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F23217344%2FVANDYKE_020422_5.jpg 2x" width="490" height="275"
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>U.S. Marshals confront protesters inside the Federal Building on Thursday in the Loop. The protesters were seeking federal charges for Jason Van Dyke, the Chicago police officer who killed Laquan McDonald.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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<p>A group of protesters was arrested while demonstrating Thursday at the Federal Building in the Loop as they called for federal charges against former Chicago cop Jason Van Dyke, who was released from a state prison hours earlier after serving just over three years for the killing of Laquan McDonald.</p><p>The nine protesters who were detained around 5 p.m. were among several dozen people who gathered in Federal Plaza earlier in the day with former mayoral candidate Ja’mal Green, Rev. Michael Pfleger and the Rev. Jesse Jackson and delivered a letter to U.S. Attorney John Lausch demanding civil rights charges against Van Dyke.</p><div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center>
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<p>After a dozen protesters locked arms inside the lobby of the Federal Building, some were seen being handcuffed by U.S. marshals. The group included Green, community organizer William Calloway and Justin Blake, whose nephew, Jacob, was shot and seriously wounded in August 2020 by a police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, sparking renewed unrest following the police killing of George Floyd earlier that year in Minneapolis.</p><p>Thursday’s demonstration appeared to be a planned act of civil disobedience amid the public outcry over Van Dyke’s release and previous sentencing.</p><div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center>
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<p>Elorm Blake, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Marshals office, confirmed that some protesters were taken into custody. She said they appeared before a judge Thursday evening but she couldn’t immediately provide additional information.</p><p>The arrested protesters called themselves the “Laquan Nine” and face federal charges, Calloway said. They were released before 8 p.m. Thursday and are due back in court Tuesday. </p><p>McDonald’s grandmother, Tracey Hunter, one of the most outspoken advocates for new charges against Van Dyke, was released after initially being detained with the group. </p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Tracey Hunter, Laquan McDonald’s grandmother, speaks to reporters on Feb. 3, 2022, after being detained during a demonstration calling for federal charges against former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke in the 2014 killing of her grandson.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Tyler LaRiviere/Chicago Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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</div><p>“They arrested and locked up some of our comrades because we’re fighting for our human rights,” Hunter told reporters, insisting that Van Dyke’s sentence was inadequate. “We should be able to be treated like humans because we are humans. </p><p>“And since they don’t, we’re gonna take over the streets and we’re gonna shut down the entire city of Chicago until we get the justice that we deserve,” she said as the group continued demonstrating downtown.</p><div class="RichTextSidebarModule Enhancement" data-module data-align-floatRight><a class="AnchorLink" id="module-c40000" name="module-c40000"></a>
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</div><p>Van Dyke was convicted in 2018 of second-degree murder and 16 counts of aggravated battery — one for each bullet he fired at 17-year-old McDonald in an on-duty shooting in 2014 in Archer Heights. The shooting — and the apparent suppression of dash-cam video of the fatal encounter — sent shockwaves through Chicago and led former Mayor Rahm Emanuel to forgo seeking a third term in office.</p><p>Before tensions boiled over Thursday, Rev. Jackson insisted “the crime and time does not correspond,” referring to the 81-month sentence Cook County Judge Vincent Gaughan handed down to Van Dyke. Ultimately, Van Dyke served about half that because of time credited for good behavior.</p><p>Pfleger claimed Van Dyke was “slapped on the wrist” as he pressed for information on the federal investigation into potential civil rights violations in connection to McDonald’s slaying. Similar calls have mounted in recent days, with U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth pressing Attorney General Merrick Garland for an update on the probe and the NAACP calling on him to pursue charges.</p><p>Pfleger made a similar appeal, pushing for a “full investigation” and for Van Dyke to be federally indicted.</p><p>“This is about Laquan McDonald and this about Jason Van Dyke,” Pfleger went on. “But this is much bigger than both of them. Justice is on trial right now. Justice is on trial in America.” </p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="CarouselSlide-infoTitle"><span class="CarouselSlide-infoDescription">Around 100 protesters rally outside the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in downtown Chicago demanding that Jason Van Dyke face Federal Charges for killing Laquan McDonald, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022.</span>
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<span class="CarouselSlide-infoAttribution">Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times</span></div>
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<div class="CarouselSlide-infoTitle"><span class="CarouselSlide-infoDescription">U.S. Marshals begin to detain protesters who are refusing to leave the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Downtown Chicago, included in the detentions are community activists Ja’mal Green, William Calloway, both community activists, Justin Blake, Jacob Blake’s Uncle, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022. Tracey Hunter, Laquan McDonald’s grandmother also joined in the civil disobedience, but wasn’t detained by U.S. Marshals.</span>
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<span class="CarouselSlide-infoAttribution">Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times</span></div>
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<div class="CarouselSlide-infoTitle"><span class="CarouselSlide-infoDescription">A U.S. Marshal speaks to Tracey Hunter, Laquan McDonald’s grandmother, orange coat, as activists are being detained by Marshals for refusing to leave the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in downtown Chicago, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022. Activists are demanding that Jason Van Dyke face Federal Charges for killing Laquan McDonald.</span>
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<div class="CarouselSlide-infoTitle"><span class="CarouselSlide-infoDescription">Around 100 protesters rally outside the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in downtown Chicago demanding that those arrested by U.S. Marshals be released, and Jason Van Dyke face Federal Charges for killing Laquan McDonald, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022. </span>
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<div class="CarouselSlide-infoTitle"><span class="CarouselSlide-infoDescription">Around 100 protesters rally outside the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in downtown Chicago demanding that those arrested by U.S. Marshals be released, and Jason Van Dyke face Federal Charges for killing Laquan McDonald, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022. </span>
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<div class="CarouselSlide-infoTitle"><span class="CarouselSlide-infoDescription">Father Michael Pfleger speaks to reporters outside the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in downtown Chicago demanding that Jason Van Dyke face federal charges for killing Laquan McDonald, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022. | Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times</span>
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<div class="CarouselSlide-infoTitle"><span class="CarouselSlide-infoDescription">Father Michael Pfleger speaks to reporters outside the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in downtown Chicago demanding that Jason Van Dyke face federal charges for killing Laquan McDonald, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022. | Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times</span>
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<div class="CarouselSlide-infoTitle"><span class="CarouselSlide-infoDescription">Justin Black, Jacob Blake’s Uncle, joins around 100 protesters outside the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in downtown Chicago demanding that Jason Van Dyke face federal charges for killing Laquan McDonald, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022. </span>
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<div class="CarouselSlide-infoTitle"><span class="CarouselSlide-infoDescription">Around 100 protesters rally outside the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in downtown Chicago demanding that Jason Van Dyke face federal charges for killing Laquan McDonald, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022.</span>
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<div class="CarouselSlide-infoTitle"><span class="CarouselSlide-infoDescription">A group of protesters commit an act of civil disobedience by locking arms and chanting inside the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Downtown Chicago are Ja’mal Green, William Calloway, both community activists, Justin Blake, Jacob Blakes Uncle, and Tracey Hunter, Laquan McDonald’s Grandmother, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022.</span>
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<div class="CarouselSlide-infoTitle"><span class="CarouselSlide-infoDescription">A U.S. Marshal speaks to Tracey Hunter, Laquan McDonald’s grandmother, orange coat, as activists are being detained by Marshals for refusing to leave the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in downtown Chicago, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022. Activists are demanding that Jason Van Dyke face Federal Charges for killing Laquan McDonald.</span>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Federal prosecutors say this still image from surveillance footage depicts Adam Walton (left) entering an Old Navy at Marshfield Plaza on May 31, 2020.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>U.S. District Court records</p></div></div>
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<p>A Chicago man was sentenced to three and a half years in prison for looting a South Side clothing store and illegally possessing a firearm as a felon during historic civil unrest and looting that reverberated throughout city neighborhoods last year. </p><p>The sentencing of Adam Walton, 41, is one of the harshest handed down in federal court for those charged in connection to looting or rioting.</p><p>U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis admonished Walton for making “really stupid decisions” and said it was difficult to find an appropriate sentence for him because of his extensive criminal history, which involves two previous gun and drug convictions.</p><p>Walton <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2021/9/13/22671867/adam-walton-looting-south-side-chicago-old-navy-2020-pleads-guilty-federal-gun-charge" target="_blank" >plead guilty in federal court in September</a>.</p><p>Walton was accused of leaving a looted Old Navy in Marshfield Plaza at 117th Street and Marshfield Avenue around 11:45 p.m. on May 31, 2020. Prosecutors said he had spent more than two minutes in the store and had collected a “large armful of clothing.”</p><p>Police said Walton then ran to a parked Honda CR-V that was in front of the store but was unable to open the driver’s door, at which point he dropped the stolen items and ran through the parking lot, according to court documents.</p><p>Police officers looked inside the Honda CR-V and saw “large quantities” of additional stolen goods inside the vehicle, officials said. Walton allegedly returned to the car and told officers that he didn’t care about the stolen objects — he just wanted to retrieve his car and leave.</p><p>Walton would later tell an officer there was a gun inside the car, prosecutors said.</p><p>In September 2017, Walton was convicted for illegally possessing a firearm and sentenced to eight years in prison but was released on parole in June 2019. He was still on parole when he was caught looting.</p><p>An emotional Walton stood before the court on Monday and apologized profusely to his family, the court and to police officers for his actions — often taking deep breaths to compose himself. He said that night he wanted to express his discontent over the killing of George Floyd but realized it somehow morphed into something that had nothing to do with fighting for social justice.</p><p>“I got caught up in the madness,” Walton said. “There are no excuses I can come up with.”</p><p>Ellis agreed with Walton that the death of George Floyd was “profoundly disturbing” and reflected a broken society and a failed criminal justice system.</p><p>“But what’s not OK is to then take that anger and turn it on your own community,” Ellis said. </p><p>Ellis said she was also troubled by some of the obstructive actions Walton engaged in while he was awaiting trial. She said he had attempted to convince his ex-girlfriend to tell investigators that the gun found in the Honda CR-V was hers — putting her at risk of going to prison.</p><p>The judge went on to say his actions were “fundamentally selfish” and was shocked at his willingness to see his ex “rot in jail.”<br></p>
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2021/12/6/22821304/adam-walton-looting-old-navy-south-side-gun-charge-george-floyd-sentenceManny Ramos2021-11-19T15:18:15.795-06:002021-11-19T17:35:57-06:00Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse verdict: It really was self-defense even if he shouldn’t have been there
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Kyle Rittenhouse in court Friday in Kenosha: Reckless decision-making but not guilty.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Sean Krajacic / The Kenosha News via AP</p></div></div>
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<p>Many people are going to have trouble accepting the <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2021/11/19/22791752/kyle-rittenhouse-verdict-trial-not-guilty-kenosha" target="_blank" >Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty verdict</a>, but I think there would be fewer of them if they’d watched the trial, beginning to end, as a jury does.</p><p>It bothers me deeply that Rittenhouse killed two people with a gun a 17-year-old shouldn’t have had in a fight he shouldn’t have been anywhere near. </p><p>But, as I wrote before the jury began its 26-plus hours of deliberations, it’s the correct verdict based on all of the evidence and the law.</p><p>It really was self-defense. Rittenhouse wasn’t the aggressor in the chain of events that led to the shootings.</p><p>That it took so long for the jury to arrive at that verdict is a clear indication that some of its members found it more difficult than others to reach that conclusion.</p><p>In a case that has the whole country disagreeing with each other, that disagreement should have come as no surprise, and yet I’ll admit the lengthy delay caught me off-guard.</p><p>I look forward to hearing what kept the jury from concluding earlier that Rittenhouse acted in self-defense when he pulled the trigger.</p><p>“You lose the right to self-defense when you’re the one who brought the gun,” lead prosecutor Thomas Binger told the jury in his closing argument Monday.</p><p>Unfortunately for Binger, that’s not quite the law.</p><p>On top of that, it fails to acknowledge that at least two other key participants in the night’s events — Joshua Ziminski and Gaige Grosskreutz — also engaged in gunplay that contributed to the outcome.</p><p>I think Binger might have lost a conviction on the first day of trial in his opening statement to the jurors when he promised a case he never delivered about Rittenhouse being the aggressor instead of a stupid kid in over his head. </p><div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center>
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<p>Binger also unwisely focused on what he portrayed as the kill shot to Joseph Rosenbaum’s back, which defense attorneys quickly showed wasn’t quite what he had made it out to be. </p><p>Binger also failed to show any of the video evidence mentioned in his opening statement, allowing defense attorneys to be the first to show what actually happened — and to put their spin on it. Huge mistake.</p><p>Yet Binger made a strong closing argument that brought the prosecution’s case into stronger focus than at any previous point — and emphasized the incongruity of Rittenhouse’s reckless decision-making.</p><p>But I never saw the evidence that would back up Binger’s assertion that Rittenhouse provoked Rosenbaum’s attack by pointing a gun at Ziminski — you literally couldn’t see it in the drone video that became an object of dispute.</p><p>This puts an end to talk of a mistrial. I didn’t see sufficient grounds. But it’s hard to tell what temperamental Kenosha County Judge Bruce Schroeder might have done. </p><p>There’s a guy with black-robe disease, though I did like the way the judge set up the verdict by saying: “The defendant will rise and face the jury and harken to its verdicts.” There’s a word that’s underused: harken.</p><p>So where do we go from here?</p><p>I certainly pray people won’t be emboldened by this verdict to show up with their guns every time there is a protest over a matter of public dispute. But I fear some will.</p><p>Despite what people are saying, Rittenhouse’s acquittal should not be seen a victory for white supremacists (though I’m sure that crowd is celebrating) any more than a guilty verdict would have been a victory for antifa.</p><p>On the other hand, if those redneck clowns in Georgia get away with the shotgun lynching of Ahmaud Arbery, now, that would be a victory for white supremacists.<br></p>
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2021/11/19/22792101/kyle-rittenhouse-verdict-self-defense-correct-verdictMark Brown2021-11-12T15:09:49.93-06:002021-11-19T12:22:47-06:00Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse trial: ‘Not guilty’ would be correct, if unjust, verdict
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Kyle Rittenhouse broke down while testifying in his own defense. With closing arguments Monday, it would be a shock if he were found guilty.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Sean Krajacic / The Kenosha News via AP</p></div></div>
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<p>Lawyers are scheduled to deliver their closing arguments Monday in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, and then the case will go to the jury.</p><p>If I were a member of that jury, I expect I would reluctantly vote to acquit Rittenhouse of the most serious homicide charges based on the evidence that he was acting in self-defense when he shot three people in Kenosha in August 2020.</p><p>That’s without the benefit yet of hearing those closing arguments. Prosecutors might still be able to pull together their case in a more compelling manner than they have managed so far.</p><p>And it’s also without knowing the jury instructions about the applicable law, which possibly could leave room for a compromise verdict on a lesser charge that would reflect the truth — which is that Rittenhouse was hardly faultless when he shot two people to death and very nearly killed two more.</p><p>But the evidence is the evidence, and I don’t expect the legal instructions to significantly change the outcome.</p><div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center>
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<p>In the moments before he pulled the trigger, it’s pretty clear Rittenhouse had valid reasons to fear for his safety — first from a mentally unhinged man chasing him with full knowledge that he was carrying an AR-15 rifle and later from what he perceived as a mob violently attacking him to avenge the first shooting. </p><p>The mob’s motives — such as stopping an active shooter who was running away to bring him to justice — might offer a justification for their actions. </p><p>But it doesn’t nullify Rittenhouse’s own perception of events and the actions he took to defend himself.</p><p><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2021/11/5/22765491/kyle-rittenhouse-jury-self-defense" target="_blank" >Last week, I warned you not to be surprised if Rittenhouse gets acquitted.</a> </p><div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center>
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<p>After seeing the rest of the evidence this past week, let me take it a step further. I will be shocked if he’s convicted of anything more than underage possession of a dangerous weapon.</p><p>As someone who has made no secret of his predisposition against Rittenhouse and those of his ilk who would hold him up as some sort of hero, I thought I ought to put that opinion out there before people start reacting to a possible verdict they don’t understand.</p><p>I’ve watched the entire trial on television, which is not quite as good as being in the courtroom, but I don’t think I’ve missed much. </p><p>I saw Rittenhouse crying on the witness stand. I wasn’t sympathetic, but I found it genuine. I’m sure Rittenhouse feels very badly — for himself.</p><p>Even though I think an acquittal would be a proper verdict, I’d still come away from the Rittenhouse trial believing that to be an unjust result.</p><p>It was Rittenhouse’s reckless foolishness as a 17-year-old who chose to play volunteer lawman amid a hostile crowd while toting an AR-15 rifle — a gun he was too young to own — that ultimately is the cause of getting those people killed. </p><p>But nobody foresaw the need to create a law covering underage vigilantism, and, as a result, an acquittal would result in his trial sending a message that his actions were OK.</p><p>Rittenhouse would then be allowed to go through the rest of his life believing exactly what he said on the witness stand: “I didn’t do anything wrong. I defended myself.”</p><p>The fact remains that Rittenhouse had no business being there that night. Without him in the equation, nobody is dead.</p><p>Some readers seemed to mistake my stated distaste for Rittenhouse and his vigilante friends as a preference for the troublemakers who tried to tear apart Kenosha under the guise of paying their respects to Jacob Blake, a Black man shot by one of that city’s white police officers. </p><p>I thought I made it pretty clear I have no tolerance for either group. </p><p>The people on the far left and the far right are tearing our country apart. </p><p>I’d rather neither of them used this verdict to justify more of the same.</p><p></p><p></p><p> <br></p>
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2021/11/12/22778778/kenosha-shooter-kyle-rittenhouse-murder-trial-self-defense-verdict-predictionMark Brown2021-09-08T19:23:07.104-05:002021-09-08T19:30:02-05:00Illinois House task force weighs adding Reagan statue to Capitol grounds
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<p>As statues of controversial figures are being torn down across the nation, an Illinois House panel on Wednesday discussed putting a new one up in Springfield of Ronald Reagan, the Illinois native who went on to become the nation’s 40th president. </p><p>House members on the Statue and Monument Review Task Force debated the pros and cons of “The Gipper’s” legacy, and the propriety of memorializing him on the Capitol grounds, but didn’t come to a decision.</p><p>The South Side Democrat who chairs the panel said in weighing the former president’s flaws with his legacy there has to be a recognition that “whether we agree with his policies or not ... he had a profound impact on the direction of this country.”</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-floatRight>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>President Ronald Reagan, left, takes a close look at a drought-stricken com field in southern Illinois in 1988. Herman Krone, right, and his son Rick, center, lead Reagan through the field, which they farm in Duquoin.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>AP</p></div></div>
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</div><p>Reagan spent his early years in northwestern Illinois — born in Tampico and raised in Dixon — before heading west to launch his acting career in Hollywood, playing Notre Dame football player George Gipp and others, and eventually his political career as governor of California.</p><p>He died in 2004 at the age of 93.</p><p>Josem Diaz, the vice president for Institutional Advancement at Reagan’s alma mater Eureka College in the Illinois city of the same name, would like to see a statue of a young Reagan on the state capitol grounds. </p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-floatLeft>
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</div><p>Of the four presidents who were either born or launched their political careers in Illinois — Reagan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses Grant and Barack Obama — only two have been permanently recognized on the grounds of the Illinois Capitol, Diaz said.</p><p>A statue of Lincoln overlooks the east side of the Capitol grounds, while one of Grant stands inside the statehouse’s rotunda.</p><p>Reagan’s story — the only U.S. president to be born and raised in the state, growing up in a low-income family and being admitted to college on a need-based scholarship — transcends party lines, Diaz said.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-floatRight>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>A statue of Ronald Reagan stands outside his boyhood home in Dixon, Illinois.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>The State Journal-Register/file photo.</p></div></div>
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</div><p>“[The] Eureka College narrative about President Reagan is not political, Republican or Democratic, it is not about all the good he did as a politician or the mistakes he made — like many leaders make, even U.S. presidents,” Diaz said. </p><p>“It is about the opportunity, and that is the story here, to remind our young generations to come that anyone from any walk of life — or any first generation student — can aspire to be the next president of the United States.”</p><p>Jamel Wright, the president of Eureka College, said the school isn’t advocating for the statue because they “agree with every single thing that Reagan did or said before, during or after he was in office” but rather in recognition that his flaws don’t “negate the fact that there were some things that were done under Reagan’s leadership and presidency that are noteworthy — and it is equally noteworthy that he is from our great state of Illinois.” </p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-floatRight>
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<img class="Image" alt="When Ronald Wilson Reagan was born Feb. 6, 1911, his family lived on the second floor of the First National Bank building, third two-story building from left, on Main Street in Tampico, Illinois." srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/89eb4b0/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1407x790+0+127/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2F0AuGZTBCZGqzjs08KDksiIT8Uhk%3D%2F0x0%3A1407x1043%2F1407x1043%2Ffilters%3Afocal%28704x522%3A705x523%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F22835779%2Ftampico_4421.JPG 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/2d8bc37/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1407x790+0+127/resize/980x550!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2F0AuGZTBCZGqzjs08KDksiIT8Uhk%3D%2F0x0%3A1407x1043%2F1407x1043%2Ffilters%3Afocal%28704x522%3A705x523%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F22835779%2Ftampico_4421.JPG 2x" width="490" height="275"
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>When Ronald Wilson Reagan was born Feb. 6, 1911, his family lived on the second floor of the First National Bank building, third two-story building from left, on Main Street in Tampico, Illinois.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>The State Journal-Register/file photo.</p></div></div>
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</div><p>State Rep. Mary Flowers the chair of the committee, said Reagan had a “made-for-TV” presidency, one that would go on to define “our American experience” by producing images and ideas that remain “with the nation today.”</p><p>The South Side Democrat referenced Reagan’s iconic “It’s Morning Again in America” campaign ad, saying that “idealistic vision of the country has become firmly entrenched in the American psyche.”</p><p>But Flowers, who grew up watching Reagan on TV, also noted the former president is often credited for giving the nation the offensive concept of the “welfare queen,” a “key talking point” at his campaign rallies.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-floatLeft>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>State Rep. Mary E. Flowers.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Rich Hein/Sun-Times file</p></div></div>
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</div><p>“This image has also stuck, not because it was true ... but because it was a convenient way to celebrate ‘Morning in America’ without having to acknowledge the nightmare of systematic racism, that is also very much a part of our history,” Flowers said. </p><p>But Reagan has largely emerged as a positive historical figure, and “whether we agree with his policies or not we have to acknowledge that he accomplished a lot during his presidency and he had a profound impact on the direction of this country,” Flowers said.</p><p>State Rep. Tim Butler, R-Springfield, largely agreed.</p><p>“Everyone has mixed legacies and mixed things that they’ve done,” said Butler, who serves as the Republican spokesperson on the committee. </p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-floatRight>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Then presidential candidate Ronald Reagan campaigns aat Elk Grove High School in Elk Grove Village in 1976.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Sun-Times archives</p></div></div>
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</div><p>Deciding how to honor those people, and acknowledging both the “great things they’ve done but questions about the actions they’ve taken” is part of the story of honoring those figures, too, Butler said.</p><p>The committee didn’t make a final determination about a statue of Reagan before adjourning. Flowers said the panel is not at the decision-making stage yet and is focused on listening to “what everyone has to say.”</p><p>The meeting coincided with Virginia removing one of the nation’s largest Confederate monuments, a statue of Civil War General Robert E. Lee on Wednesday as states across the country continue to decide which monuments can stay and which should go.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-floatLeft>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Crews work Wednesday to remove one of the country’s largest remaining monuments to the Confederacy, a towering statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Steve Helber/AP, Pool</p></div></div>
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</div><p>Illinois began its own review in April when House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch created the task force to “ensure Illinois’ public art is historically accurate and reflects the diversity of the state.”</p><p>The 11-member, bipartisan panel has held public hearings, listening to historians, advocates and organizations with a goal of recommending statues to either be removed or added.</p><p>Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White has called for a more appropriate statue to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King than the one currently on the Capitol grounds.</p><div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center>
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