66 Activists Arrested in Protest at Police Chief’s Convention in Chicago

October 26, 2015 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us

Sixty-six people were arrested on October 24 acting to shut down a national conference of police chiefs in Chicago, saying “As a people living in Black bodies, state-sanctioned violence is always a clear and present danger. This must end.”
Sixty-six people were arrested on October 24 acting to shut down an international conference of police chiefs in Chicago, saying “As a people living in Black bodies, state-sanctioned violence is always a clear and present danger. This must end.” Photo: Focus Today Image via YouTube

October 24—Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100), Assata’s Daughters, We Charge Genocide and Organized Communities Against Deportations (OCAD) took action to shut-down the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) conference in Chicago.

Their statement said: “From Chicago to Oakland, New Orleans to New York City, Black people live under police occupation everyday. Black folks who are poor, women, formerly incarcerated, working class, LGBTQ and gender non-conforming, differently abled, and/or undocumented are particularly vulnerable to police violence and hyper-surveillance. As a people living in Black bodies, state-sanctioned violence is always a clear and present danger. This must end.”

While Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago police Superintendent Garry McCarthy welcomed police chiefs to Chicago, 66 people chained themselves together and sat down in the street, and were arrested.

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