Re: Anti-ICE protests in Chicago

On Jun 10, 2025 at 10:00:18 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
wrote:

I was in the Chicago Loop this afternoon. I teach an economics class on
Tuesdays; the school is in shared office space on the 27th floor of a
high rise with a great view of Lake Michigan.
 
Half a dozen federal security SUVs were next to the federal jail but I
didn't see protestors there. They were in federal plaza, then joined a
separate protest in the east Loop at the high rise with immigration
court in it. From my highrise, I could see them marching in the middle
of the street toward Michigan Avenue. A frustrated driver at another
intersection ignored police instructions to turn, instead driving into
protestors. She knocked one woman down but wasn't charged.

Something similar happened in L.A. As the violent mob surrounded a woman in an
SUV, she drove through them and knocked some of them to the side. The media
chopper had her license tag, so the cops showed up to her house in Glendora
but she wasn't arrested or charged (I suppose the could have written her some
kind of ticket.)

The city would have a hard time explaining to a judge why they charged her but
they didn't charge the thousands of other people committing crimes all around
her, especially since she has a valid claim of self-defense.