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“The First Amendment Would’ve Swallowed This”
Why does Brandon Johnson continue to prosecute protesters? For the last year and a half, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling have taken every opportunity to brag in the media about CPD’s “enhanced” training techniques when it comes to protests,…
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Burke and Snelling celebrate gun felony program, while people are forced to arm themselves for their own protection
On November 21st, Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen Burke gleefully announced the city-wide expansion of the Felony Review bypass program. Originally a pilot program launched in the predominantly Black Englewood and Calumet districts, the program allows CPD to directly file felony gun possession charges…
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Notes on O22 from Inside CCJ
A letter from participants of the October 22nd National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality inside Cook County Jail When we dare to struggle, we dare to win, and we either STAND for something of FALL for anything. To all the men and women…
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Stolen Lives Panel – Chicago
Join us for a discussion with impacted families to build up for O22! Who are the stolen lives in Chicago? What barriers to families face when fighting for justice? Hear their stories, about the obstacles in the fight, and the continued struggle for justice!…
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One Big Miss Revisited
On September 19th, Salvador was beat up and arrested by the 10th District Police in Chicago. He was thrown to the ground and was coughing up blood, arrested for “assault” for allegedly saying “cop killer” in front of CPD. A paraplegic, he told the…
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On The Potential Retrial of Brad Lunsford
On August 2nd, 2022, Las Cruces Police Officer Brad Lunsford, a white man, shot Presley Eze, a Black man, in the back of the head at a gas station. Lunsford and LCPD left Presley Eze’s dead body lying on the ground in the heat…
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Free Adrian Rucker
The following is a letter from 25-year-old Adrian Rucker, the young man arrested “in connection” to the June 5th killing of CPD officer Krystal Rivera, with minor grammatical edits. Rivera was shot from behind by her partner, Carlos Baker, a Chicago cop with a…
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Send Killer Cop Lunsford to Prison!
In August 2022, Las Cruces Police Officer, Brad Lunsford, shot Presley Eze in the back of the head. This public execution of a Black man made Eze one of the 32 people whose lives were stolen by police in NM that year. What is…
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Rinse & Repeat
Why reforms can be unreformed in the talk shop of legislative politics On August 22nd, the Chicago Sun-Times published an article citing the reversals of six high-profile misconduct rulings enacted by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA). In all but two cases, COPA…
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Get Organized for October 22nd!
O22 National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality Since 2020, over 7,000 people across the United States have been killed by police, and every year is more deadly than the last. The mass rebellion in response to the public execution of George Floyd,…
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