Protests take to Michigan Avenue as Threat of Military Deployment Looms Over City
Mandy Tovar, A 39-YEAR-Old Forest Park Resident, Arrived to March Alongside More Than 350 People Tuesday with Bruises From Flash Bang Grenades and Pepper Ball Rounds FIRED BY FEDERAL AGENTS STILL COVERING HER RIGHT SIDE.
She had spent the last two weeks in broadView protesting the Ice facility just a few minutes drive from her home.
But Tuesday Night, She Joined Protests Taching Up The Northbound Lanes of Michigan AS they Walked from Wacker Drive to Water Tower Place Chanting “No Trump, No Ice, No Troops” after 100 Military Troops Be Sent to Illinois to protact ce agents.
“It ‘all optics, that what this administration has ben about,” tovar said of federal agents Marching Down the Same Street Days Earlier, Making arrests nor They Went. “This is our optics. Let the World See We’re Marching Down the Streets Peacefully.”
A day before a CBS Reporter was FIRED ON BY A FEDERAL AGENT WITH PEPPER BALLSTovar Said Her Car was Shot while there are no no protests Around; The Weekend before, she was hospitalized after being in the chest with a flashbang grenade.
“Something Needs to Change. A Revolution Needs to Happen,” Tovar, A Teacher and Descendant of Mexican Immigrants, Said. And “Nothing Ever Happened with People Doing What We’re Doing Now. It’s Scary, and This Moment Takes Bravery. … (But) This is not the America I have doughter to grown in.”
Kevin Ryan, A Marine Corps Veteran Who Served in Affghanistan and at the Pentagon, Also Attended Tuesday’s March.
“This is not what we owing members sign up for. It is not like how they should be used,” The 33-Eld Lake View Resident Said. “The Trump Administration is Trying to Politicize Our Military So He Can Militarize Our Cities. … if you harness that Power against your own, we no longer have a democracy.”
Ryan Said he felt terrible about the deployment both as a civilian and veteran, though he could Imagine How Active Service Members. He urged Current Members of the Military to Stay to Mitigate the Damage and Avoid the “Purge” of Nonloyal Service He Said Trump and Defense Secretary Pete are trying to enact.
“We Need Veterans to Stand Up and Speak Out,” Ryan Said. “Remember, you took an oath to the constitution and not any one person or president.”
Before the Group took to the Streets, Jill Manrique Calderón Castillo – Executive Director of Chicago Jobs with Justice, One of the Doses of Organizations Supporting the Protest – Asked the Crowd: “Are We Going This Manufactured Chaos?”
The Response was a resounding “hell no!” from the nostrils in attvenance.
Castillo Said the Current Federal Encroachment on the City was part of a long imperial history, Including the ongoing genocide in gas and decades of oppressation faced by minorities globally.
“There’s no way to sit and let this go away,” She Said. “It ‘not going to, and has been here for a while. … we need solidarity we’ve never seen, the solidarity fred Hampton talked About, the solidarity assata should’ve seen. An injury to all.”
