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Friday, June 5, 2020 | One of Editor & Publisher’s ‘10 That Do It Right 2020’ | 89°/64° Forecast, Page 28 $1 CITY/BURBS $2 ELSEWHERE | LATE SPORTS FINAL TRAGIC CONSEQUENCES In wake of Wednesday police pursuit that left a woman dead, Lightfoot plans changes to CPD policy SAM CHARLES REPORTS, PAGE 4 A woman was killed Wednesday in Lake View when her SUV was struck by a Chicago police car involved in a pursuit. PHOTO COURTESY OF ABC7 A visit to Illinois’ last FAMILY OFWOMAN PULLED FROM CAR COVID-free corner BY HER HAIR AND KNELT ON BY CPD Scott County hasn’t seen a single case: ‘None of us are wearing masks’ OFFICER WANTS CRIMINAL PROBE NEAL EARLEY REPORTS, PAGE 7 MITCH DUDEK REPORTS, PAGE 9 2 | Friday, June 5, 2020 | The Hardest-Working Paper in America | suntimes.com TOP NEWS What do protests do? Quite a bit problem being protested is never fixed by the end of the day. But it NEIL isn’t as if they didn’t try. So points STEINBERG for trying; it’s more than most do. 3. Protests areinformational. The “If the czar only knew” aspect. [email protected] | @NeilSteinberg At the 2012 NATO Summit in Chi- cago, young people covered them- o what do these protests do? selves in chocolate syrup and lay in S Good question. Space is the street to draw attention to the limited, so let’s get to it. oil sands situation in Canada. I had Six purposes: never heard of the oil sands situa- 1. Protests provoke the wrong tion in Canada before, nor thought being protested, flushing it into the of it since. But they did raise the light. Civil rights demonstrations issue. worked because Southern sheriffs Is that happening now? Are broke out the dogs and firehoses there really people watching TV, Protesters take a knee outside the Cicero Police Department on Tuesday. ASHLEE REZIN GARCIA/SUN-TIMES and showed America exactly thinking, “What’s this about? Police what these marchers were talking brutality? Tell me more.” Probably. They can’t ignore the violence that from initial alarm to the cocoon of reason women can vote, Jews about. Had they broken out trays Never underestimate the vast came in the wake of these pro- victimhood they call home. can check into fancy hotels and of pralines instead, we might still ignorance of the American people. tests. Protesters insist they’re not 6. Protests encourage change. black people aren’t dragged into have segregated lunch counters. That’s like assuming you can wade connected. But they are. Protests Not force it. Not enact it. But drip the street and lynched for merely Protests against police brutality across the Atlantic. open the gap in ordinary life that some grease into the seized-up being suspected of a crime. Except wouldn’t be half as dramatic if 4. Protests persuade. Indiffer- looters rush through. The resulting gears of history. Just look to the that last one is still a work in some police didn’t, on cue, start ent John Q. Bovine looks up from past. Years of massive Vietnam progress. being brutal, on camera, blast- his silage, sees the masses and YEARS OF MASSIVE protests did not end the war but In fact, change has been happen- ing peaceful protesters with tear moos to his field mate, “That’s a VIETNAM PROTESTS nudged America toward calling it ing rapidly. Bad change. Erosion gas. Not many — most showed lot of people, Suzy. This must be DID NOT END THE WAR quits. The nation had to first see of every legal protection, social admirable professionalism and important. Perhaps something gays marching for AIDS research convention, moral standard and restraint. But it only takes a little ought be done.” This occurs among BUT NUDGED AMERICA before it would consider letting American value. spit to spoil the soup. governors, mayors, police chiefs TOWARD CALLING IT them be schoolteachers. Whatwewanttodoistoslow 2. Protests benefit the pro- and such. Protests rearrange not QUITS. Not that change comes easily. that deterioration and begin some testers themselves. Not content just their schedules now, canceling Right now, the focus is on improv- good change. Protest is part of to sit at home watching Netflix vacations, ruining weekends that smoke obscures the protests from ing the police, though that’s inad- that. Though I wish these march- after — oh, for instance — a police should be spent at New Buffalo, the sight of Fox News nation, who equate, like trying to fix a smudge ers were heading en masse to reg- officer is captured on video slowly but later add bullet points to their most need to grasp their message. on your cheek by polishing the ister to vote. Without getting the strangling a black man who may agendas. They instead point gleefully at the mirror. What will this reform be? man cheerleading police violence have passed a bogus $20 bill, they 5. Protests are a kind of black- violence to rationalize their tradi- Maybe a new training filmstrip: out of the Oval Office in November, leap up, make signs, pour into the mail. Those in charge promise a tional indifference and contempt. “Stop Killing People: An Introduc- all this is a waste. It won’t even be street, march, raise their voices. few grudging baby steps forward, Looting is the brass fireman’s tion.” in the history books because guys They’re doing something. True, the if only to make the chaos stop. pole conveying them smoothly Change is possible. It is the like Bill Barr will be writing them. 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Ephraim Eaddy, a spokesman questions about how many allega- mass protests in the city’s recent a uniform or failing to correctly Hall during a meeting of the Com- for the Civilian Office of Police Ac- tions they were aware of. memory sparked by the Minneapo- identify themselves is specifically mittee on Public Safety. countability, told the Chicago Sun- Lightfoot’s office said she strong- lis police killing of George Floyd, prohibited by at least two Chicago “It says a lot about folks who Times the independent monitor ly condemned the practice. Chicago police are investigating at police directives. think they need to tape up their received 82 complaints over the “Wearing nameplates in uniform least one officer for covering up his But the Reporter has obtained im- badge,” he said. “What kind of ac- weekend. is the most universal form of trans- badge number and name tag. ages and video that suggest multiple tivity does an officer plan on doing On Tuesday, Mayor Lori Light- parency and accountability when Images and video circulating on CPD officers may have been engag- that they cover up their badge?” foot acknowledged in her State of it comes to policing. All Chicago social media show police officers ing in the inappropriate practice of Vasquez said his office asked the the City speech that “the process police officers are required to wear who appear to have either taped hiding their names or star numbers, Lightfoot administration about the of reform has been too slow and too and make visible their unit assign- overthenametagsontheiruni- which are the unique identifying practice on Tuesday. narrowly focused,” and pledged to ment designator, nameplate and forms and badge star numbers or numbers on an officer’s badge. “People want to equate us asking institute immediate steps toward prescribed star. Should any officer removed them entirely. In a state- Kyle Wilkins, 29, took one photo questions as if these aren’t serious reform within the next 90 days in- be found in violation of these poli- ment to the The Chicago Reporter near DePaul’s campus Sunday matters,” he said.
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