Protesters accrued close to Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Logan Square house Sunday morning to protest the curfew she applied Saturday night time according to violent protests downtown.
Videos posted to social media display a gaggle banging pots and pans and retaining indicators whilst chanting “Wake up, Lori, wake up,” on the intersection of Kimball and Wrightwood avenues, with police showing to dam the road within the 3400 block of West Wrightwood.
Chicago police didn’t instantly supply information about the road closure Sunday morning.
A since-deleted Facebook tournament for the rally, scheduled to start out at 6 a.m., said “LET’S WAKE HER UP” in a decision for activists to protest the curfew order, which organizers referred to as an try “to force mass arrests of protesters downtown demanding justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade and all victims of police murder.”
Sunday at 6AM: Wake Up Call for Lori Lightfoot at her Home. “Let’s let her know what we think of her support for the murderous racist Chicago Police Department, and her curfew meant to ratchet up police terror.” 3428 W Wrightwood https://t.co/J7abttjM4W percent.twitter.com/WB6Y0ETnLa
— Rachael Perrotta (@plussone) May 31, 2020
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