Major Chicago roadway closes during afternoon rush as protesters demand Rahm Emanuel's resignation
An anti-violence march in Chicago closed Lake Shore Drive on Thursday afternoon, as protesters demonstrated against the city's spiraling crime crisis and called for Mayor Rahm Emanuel to step down.
The demonstrators waved signs demanding Emanuel's resignation and chanted "one city, one Chicago" and "Rahm has to go." Ahead of the march, protesters made clear they didn't want the Democratic mayor's support or blessing -- they were urging him to resign over what they called his inability to get gun crime under control.
The protest organizers declined to seek a permit for the march or coordinate with police ahead of the demonstration. “The call of the people is ‘Resign Rahm,’” Dr. Gregory Livingston said, according to The Chicago Tribune. “So how, then, can you back your own regime change? How do you sanction your own termination? How dumb, naive and self-hating do you think we are?” “Honestly, when the mayor endorses a protest, it’s no longer a protest,” the Rev. Ira Acree said. “It becomes a parade, and we’re on serious business.”
The march came after thousands of protesters shut down traffic on Interstate 94 last month to draw attention to gun violence.
Chicago police said the city had 252 homicides and 1,100 shootings in the first six months of 2018, a decrease from last year -- but the crimes have been concentrated in predominantly black, low-income neighborhoods.
Emanuel's cheese-eating anti-cop, anti-enforcement policies have rendered the chicago police almost ineffective in protecting honest citizens, and they aint gunna take it no more. Time's up, cheese-eater.
Now watch CNN post another picture taken hours before the rally started showing all empty seats again, eh?
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gungasnake
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Thu 2 Aug, 2018 06:59 pm
@layman,
Quote:
Harry Truman kept a placard on his desk which said "The buck stops here."
Trump has one too. It says "Time's up, cheese-eaters."
Particularly the pedophile cheese eaters...
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layman
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Thu 2 Aug, 2018 06:59 pm
@MontereyJack,
MontereyJack wrote:
Sk
Sounds to me like they want gun comtrol. Times up, NRA.
You heard it wrong. They want the cops to be able to stop gun crime, not outlaw guns. Right now their own firearms is about their only defense against the thugs which the cops are not supposed to stop, per Emanuel.
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MontereyJack
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Thu 2 Aug, 2018 07:05 pm
@gungasnake,
60Percent of the coubtry is still disgusted by him and he loses to biden by 7 points in a 2020 matchup. We allknow florida is swamp country.
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revelette1
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Thu 2 Aug, 2018 08:30 pm
I really admire Jim Acosta for standing for the right of the Free Press in opposition to the WH. I hope he continues every chance he gets. It is that important.
Around the same time, a United Nations group issued a statement condemning Mr. Trump’s “repeated attacks on the free press.”
“His attacks are strategic, designed to undermine confidence in reporting and raise doubts about verifiable facts,” wrote representatives of the United Nations and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
They added: “We stand with the independent media in the United States.”
I really admire Jim Acosta for standing for the right of the Free Press
Heh, Acosta's idea of "standing up" is to rudely scream the same question 8 or 10 times from 500 feet away; to shout down every other person in the room and the person he's supposedly "questioning" while showboating and grandstanding by trying to make long-winded, incoherent "statements;" and to have the camera on himself while he cuts in front of other reporters and tries to ask 30 questions in a row.
I'm surprised they're still allowing that jackass anywhere near the white house.
I really admire Jim Acosta for standing for the right of the Free Press
Right of the free press to lie? Tell only one side of every story? Dehumanize Trump supporters? I do not see anyone stopping them. They(Trump et al)are just pointing it out.
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glitterbag
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Thu 2 Aug, 2018 09:05 pm
@layman,
layman wrote:
revelette1 wrote:
I really admire Jim Acosta for standing for the right of the Free Press
Heh, Acosta's idea of "standing up" is to rudely scream the same question 8 or 10 times from 500 feet away; to shout down every other person in the room and the person he's supposedly "questioning" while showboating and grandstanding by trying to make long-winded, incoherent "statements;" and to have the camera on himself while he cuts in front of other reporters and tries to ask 30 questions in a row.
I'm surprised they're still allowing that jackass anywhere near the white house.
Princess of the Crybaby Tribe. Boo Hoo, they were mean to me ...... and it’s not like I deserve it, I’m not Hillary for Christ’s sake. Boooooo hooooooooo.
Somebody see if they can loan Miss Sunday School marm a spine.
Trump vs. Koch Is a Custody Battle Over Congress
Most of the media coverage of the “ugly public feud,” as the New York Times called it, between President Trump and the Koch brothers has taken the Kochs at their word that they may have to give up on the Republican Party of Trump and start backing Democrats, so disgusted are they with the President’s protectionist trade policies. But history suggests that the Kochs’ threat is about as believable as that of a parent threatening to “just plain leave” if a balky toddler doesn’t behave.
Trump administration says ACLU should find hundreds of deported parents
Tal Kopan Nicole Chavez, associate writer CNN Digital
By Tal Kopan and Nicole Chavez, CNN
(CNN)The Trump administration says immigrant advocacy groups should be responsible for tracking down more than 500 parents who were separated from their children and deported without them.
In a court document filed Thursday as part of the ongoing lawsuit over separated families, the Justice Department suggested the American Civil Liberties Union should use its "network of law firms, NGOs, volunteers and others" to find the parents with information provided by the Department of Health and Human Services.
The administration is proposing that every Monday, the ACLU would share any new information about the parents it locates, including whether they wish to be reunited with their children.
The next family separation crisis: Finding hundreds of deported parents
The ACLU says it is eager to help locate the parents but argued that the government "must bear the ultimate burden of finding the parents," the document states.
"Not only was it the government's unconstitutional separation practice that led to this crisis, but the United States Government has far more resources than any group of NGOs," ACLU attorneys wrote.
The two sides also continue to disagree about what information is appropriate and necessary for the government to provide. The government continues to resist giving the ACLU the entire case files of separated parents for the groups to use to track down parents. Instead, they propose delivering a list of information that the ACLU has said was a non-exhaustive list.
"Relatedly, Plaintiffs believe that the Government should be taking the initiative to continually provide Plaintiffs with whatever useful information they possess, without constantly waiting for Plaintiffs to request specific information, especially because the Government knows better than Plaintiffs what types of information are contained in various files and databases," the filing says.
The ACLU claimed the government has been in contact with some deported parents, but it's not clear why they have not shared information with the nonprofit. The ACLU says it tracked down 12 deported parents only to find out they were already in contact with the government, the filing says.
In a supplemental court filing, the administration said 410 children who remain in custody have parents who are no longer in the United States.
At a Tuesday hearing, Commander Jonathan White of the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, who's been heading up family reunification efforts, had said the parents of more than 500 kids from separated families may have been deported. White said 429 of those kids are in custody and 81 kids have been released to other sponsors.
