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comrade carmen vargas and I managed to talk to an officer about how they should act. carmen: in recent days chicago has been the scene of massive protests, which in some cases have ended with scenes of people being arrested, as happened on tuesday night. but it is important to understand that in these cases, the chicago police department follows a protocol. the head of the constitutional reform police office explains to us what it consists of. so the group was peaceful, what was the first contact the police had? normally when a protest starts, we have a conversation with those in the protest. we want to know the routes, the address. we want to know if we have the necessary equipment to make this protest safe. carmen: she assures that the objective is to allow the protesters to exercise their right to free expression. we do not want to interrupt, the people are expressing their rights. we are not there to intervene in what is happening. and if they start to move, we move with them. carmen: at what point is it decided that we have to block the passage in some way to prevent them from continuing to advance? first, what we are watching is that people are preparing for acts of violence. carmen: after how long do the authorities tell the protesters to withdraw? what we do first is that when we see that the conditions are dangerous and people are acting in a way that violence or destruction of property could begin, we let them know at that moment that we are going to give them warnings that if they do not move or do not end the demonstration, they will be arrested. We’re going to do that three times, giving the group enough time to move between each time. We wait long enough. We act. Carolina: By the way, Superintendent Larry Snelling confirmed that there were 56 arrests and that half of them are not residents of the city. While 14 people refused to cooperate.
