I am watching a livestream from Chicago G8 protests. The crowd is too big to count at the moment. It is peaceful so far but individuals dressed in black with bandanas could possibly be members of black bloc. LRAD has arrived and giving orders to disperse. Cops are putting on gas masks and the crowd is gearing up themselves; putting on helmets and goggles. Undercover cops are tagging backs of certain individuals with yellow stickers. Some cops seen hitting protester. It sounds like protesters are kettled by police. Two people are arrested, one possible from Occupy New York. No sign of legal observers.
Here is the livestream link.
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Crowd just told they will be arrested or subjected to other police enforcement. What exactly is other police enforcement? Loudspeaker is being used to speak to crowds in several different languages. It sounds like police are getting ready to move in. Word is that they will start with non-lethal enforcement. Have you ever b een hit with a rubber bullet? It sure feels lethal!
http://www.ustream.tv/occupycarlisle#utm_campaign=t.co&utm_source=9763106&utm_medium=social
Paddy wagons arriving and one ambulance. Also live coverage on CNN. Cops are beating protesters with batons. The last time I checked peaceful protesting is our Constitutiuonal right.
I’m sure that the “Justice for Kelly Thomas” crowd will be along any minute now to join in on the condemnation….
Word is Obama is in the area going to Art Institute. CNN asking if cops really needed to beat protesters. CNN ending coverage so I am going back to Indy coverage.
http://www.ustream.tv/occupycarlisle#utm_campaign=t.co&utm_source=9763106&utm_medium=social
another independent ustreamer…
http://www.ustream.tv/occupiedair
Chicago expressway shut down… only police and secret service on it. Protesters at ground zero NATO summit. Helicopter following crowd. Cops managed to divide group. All downtown businesses seem to be closed. Wells Fargo boarded up in anticipation of event. These guys are marching for miles. I’m getting tired just watching them.
Cops use bicycle to beat protesters back:
The eclipse is not the only thing it hurts to look at today.
*The Night Chicago Died……remember that song? It was great. Remember the Democratic Convention with Mayor Daly yelling obsenities from the Dias. Dan Rather and Mike Wallace being pushed around on the Convention floor? The Chicago 7….?
Tom Hayden? Oh, the good old days. Those Chicago cops are Midwest ex-football players….always are….always have been. That’s why they call them the Fighting Illini.
Well, now we are just fighting World Banking….and the Global menace of Hedge Funds and Derivatives that are killing the Great Chefs of Europe! Heck, we miss Country Joe and the Fish and the Vietnam Fight Song! Hardly worth a broken window..that week-long NATO and G-8 Meeting.
Things seem to be winding down for today, but tomorrow they fight again. Here are is a link to some photos that were taken today…https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.228273113941933.32882.141741332595112&type=1
Thanks for documenting this here, Mika. What a terrible moment for everyone. What exactly were they afraid that the protesters were going to do, to require this sort of response?