Protesters enter Taste of Chicago, chanting 'black lives matter'

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Source: Chicago Tribune



Protesters enter Taste of Chicago, chanting 'black lives matter'
Protesters gather in downtown Chicago



July 9, 2016 5:42pm

Chanting, "No justice, no peace — no racist police," and "black lives matter," protesters gathered in several locations in downtown Chicago on Saturday, in response to police-involved killings of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota.


William Lee and Nereida Moreno Contact Reporter Chicago Tribune

More than 100 protesters gathered Saturday at the Taste of Chicago in downtown Chicago where they marched and chanted "black lives matter" as vendors dished out food and festivalgoers ate, watched it all unfold..

For the last 24 hours, activists and others took to social media, promising to interrupt the annual food fest in response to this week's police-involved killings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La., and Philando Castile in suburban St. Paul, Minn.

Just after 4 p.m., the group gathered in the middle of the event — on Columbus Drive, near Jackson Boulevard — after earlier protests in Daley Plaza, at The Bean Millennium Park – even sitting down in traffic along various stretches of the Loop. In a show of solidarity, some drivers even honked in support. Some protesters made it into the Taste, at Jackson Boulevard and Columbus Drive, easily. Those carrying signs – some that read "Stop killing black people"- weren't allowed in. Many of them simply left their signs near the entrance so they could go in.
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Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-chicago-police-protests-0710-20160709-story.html

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Kelly Bauer ?@BauerJournalism 36m36 minutes ago

People are coming off the sidewalk and joining the protest.



https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20160709/downtown/police-brutality-protesters-march-through-taste-of-chicago
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Activists protest at the Taste of Chicago.
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DOWNTOWN — Activists took to the Taste of Chicago Saturday to protest police brutality, chanting and marching with signs through downtown before entering the festival that draws more than 1 million people annually.


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Kelly Bauer ?@BauerJournalism 3h3 hours ago

Scenes from #BlackLivesMatter protest in Chicago. #AltonSterling #PhilandoCastile
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[monmouth4]

1. Quite a few people on Clematis Street in downtown West Palm Beach marching also. God bless them..n/t

[mwrguy]

2. Good. Shut it all down.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. Well, don't shut it ALL down ...

... in the photos, some protesters are clearly enjoying "Tastes of Chicago" as they chant.

If you have to hijack someone else's event in order to get media attention, then pick the event with the best food. Heck yeah.

[Judi Lynn]

9. Why mock the protesters? n/t

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

11. More mocking the "shut it all down" sentiment.

"Don't shut down the food vendors" would be a secondary consideration.

"Don't shut down the media cameras" would be the primary consideration.

"Shut it ALL down" is not on the agenda.

[AngryAmish]

14. If you go to Taste of Chicago for good food you are going to have a bad time.

[Crash2Parties]

3. I wonder if a single cop or politician will think to themselves,

"Huh. Maybe we should stop shooting black guys."

[Chemisse]

4. Ahhh, the black fist throws me back.

Along with 'black power'. I used to have a black fist button (around 1969), when I was a 14-year old "hippie" living on the streets in NYC. I traded my red fist, SDS button for it. It afforded me some degree of respect and safety in the black community of the Lower East Side, where the white kids with the peace signs were looked at with some disdain.

[Judi Lynn]

10. "white kids with the peace signs were looked at with some disdain"? Really?

You want to tell us that people in your neighborhood actually looked at them with disdain? I've never heard that from anyone, not one word.

Right-wingers hate people with peace signs.

[Chemisse]

12. Yes, really.

What is it about that comment that confuses you?

[Person 2713]

5. We debated this as a family this AM with the schedule on the local news. My son said

It's a free event so the should get access. I wasn't so sure because I said they probably have city event security that could say it was disruptive and use that excuse to stop them much like stopping a bunch of rowdy drunk frat boys at the entrance. So I am glad to hear they were allowed in to protest in one of Chicago ' s premier summer fests. but sorry to see they were censored and had to abandon signs etc.

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. Hold it Now

Who count the money in the neighborhood
But we spending money to no end, looking for a friend
In a war to the core, ripping up the poor in the stores
Until they get a brother kicking down doors
Then I figure I can get bigger
Look 'em dead in the eye and they wince, defense is pressurized
They don't really want it to be another racial attack
In disguise so give some money back
I like Nike but wait a minute
The neighborhood supports, so put some money in it
All corporations owe, they gotta give up the dough
To my town or else we gotta shut 'em down

[mrmpa]

15. there was a movement a few years ago.......

at least in my City (don't know if it was nation wide) where on a specific day, African Americans used $2 bills to pay for whatever they bought on that date. It was to be a wake up call that African Americans were indeed a contributing factor to the economy.

It could be a message except for imbeciles like these:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018865511

[mwrguy]

16. gun nuts do that

Putting $2 bills into tip jars to let the establishment know that gun toters were there.

[mrmpa]

17. Might be the reason........

I haven't heard about it in the African American community since the first time I heard about it.

[Elmergantry]

7. How can you claim the moral highground

in a "Black Power" shirt?

That's a racist slogan, no better than "white power".

And it was the slogan of the Dallas shooter not surprisingly.

If one is to give it a pass, I'm sure the courtesy will be extended to those who fly the confederate flag right?

[Igel]

13. Nice New Black Panther flag.

Hey, that's listed by the SPLC as a hate group and a black nationalist group.

Yeah, sort of sucks, that.

And, well, if he doesn't think of that flag that way, doesn't matter what he thinks. Symbols have intrinsic meaning, dontcha know.