Accurate, if even a bit softer than how it really is.

I never felt unsafe in my west side Chicago community until the Black Hawks started doing daily intimidation runs. Until they abducted community members who were out working one day, gone the next.

I used to push a wagon with side pockets full of bubbles, snacks, and toys. Now there’s fewer toys to make room for gas masks for kids and adults.

Chicago is a tough town. People here are doing an amazing job restraining themselves and others. I’ve heard on more than one occasion people in crowds reminding one another to not give them reason to pull in the Guard.

This will likely not be the case forever.

More people need to see what’s happening here. This is not sustainable; generational harm is being inflicted on those directly targeted and those who seethe with anger and have to explain to kids why their friends aren’t around anymore.

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lurk2 20 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> have to explain to kids why their friends aren’t around anymore.

How does that conversation go?

	▲	tky 18 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Honestly, not well. It’s hard to articulate to a 4 year old that people like us are hiding for fear that they’ll be taken by “army men”

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xdennis 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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	▲	UncleMeat 10 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Nearly half of the bill of rights is focused on the rights of criminal defendants. The idea that if somebody commits a crime that the state has unlimited power to use force and violence against that person is anti-american.
	▲	doganugurlu 16 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		What’s the accurate description when US citizens are _allegedly_ accidentally arrested? How much freedom citizens must sacrifice for these laws to be enforced?

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jalapenof 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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