About Last Night....

So what's the scoop?

There was a protest, everyone knew that:

• A large anti-ICE protest was held Tuesday evening in downtown Chicago.

  Demonstrators started at Federal Plaza and were protesting ICE and other federal agents engaged in the mass deportations happening nationwide.

There was another protest / march also, and the two combined at some point.

Then, this odd report:

• A driver plowed into a group of protesters Tuesday in the Loop, striking at least one pedestrian, as thousands marched through downtown Chicago protesting the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration raids.

  The driver was stuck between police vehicles on State Street. Officers wanted to guide her away from the crowd and asked her to turn right on Monroe Street, but she ignored their orders and turned left, speeding into the crowd.

"...plowed into...." but the Slum Times only mentions one casualty? That's not really "plowed into" by any stretch. That sort of verbiage should be reserved for the European-type islamic terror attacks where fifty and more people are run over, bodies flying through the air and multiple dead bodies in the streets.

The Slum Times also mentions a couple arrests, and we've had a comment or three about Officers being deployed on the Line of March without any sort of protective gear and no reserve force in riot gear in case anything went south. Some reports mention half-a-dozen arrests.

It all sounds like a large protest, a few bad actors and a less-than-impressive response that all worked out.

For the moment.

The Department should be using this as an opportunity to check on their mobilization plan, because if it all goes bad, you don't want to find out the plan is less than adequate in the middle of a full scale riot. The current command staff can't think on their feet, any upper echelon people with experience have been chased away, and as we exited the stage, we noted that lower level white shirts (Lts and Sgts) can't seem to think for themselves in any type of stressful event.