Caroline Kubzansky
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Criminal justice for the Chicago Tribune, [email protected]. @ctguild.bsky.social
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I’m not talking about the kind of thing you can photograph or advertise, though goodness knows religious imagery has been a major part of the wave of protest and dissent we’re seeing at the moment. It’s just this background thing that runs alongside everything else that’s going on.
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Something sort of interesting I’ve noticed is that this conviction has followed me almost everywhere since I’ve started covering violence and its responses and preventative measures intensively. Doesn’t matter where — a street corner or a village hall or a parking lot.
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Thompson and almost everyone I spoke to around her are really serious about their faith, and the idea that there is something holding them even when things feel chaotic and unstable.
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He banged his head against the wall, but he still could not think of a story.
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“Who knows what tomorrow may bring… tomorrow the feds may be on unicycles.” - a transit oriented friend as we are (trying) to make plans in a rapidly changing news landscape
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Journalism is so glamorous pt infinity: sitting in the grass in an industrial corridor writing and peering around for national guard troops
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Hey Ms. Sheridan. Sounds like a really stressful week for you. Are you willing to send me an email at [email protected]?
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Mayor Thompson adjourns the meeting. I have covered hundreds of local government meetings and don’t think I have ever covered one with that much singing.
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Encourages love over hate and says protesters get to go home at the end of the day, without the “drama and trauma” of an ICE facility in their hometowns.
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Says she tried to visit the processing center and meet with Noem and was told she was unavailable. And reaffirms her commitment to 1A rights but says she has to balance those rights with well-being of Broadview residents.
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On Friday, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem tried to visit village hall, claiming she needed to use the bathroom.

“I’ve never known a public official to bring a photographer, videographer to a bathroom break.”
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Mayor Thompson is addressing the comments.
On the “crisis of leadership” brought up by the first commenter, she says she needs to get her facts right. Then says she is here to be the messenger of love and kindness.
Thanks the police dept. for “doing a good job for this community.”
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James Madigan, of Oak Park, is here on behalf of I think Paul Ivery, who was arrested and charged with threatening federal officers last week. Wants to know the relationship between Broadview Police and ICE.
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…”Soldiers of the I-C-E, we ain’t gonna stop til Broadview is free.”

Another commenter discussing the EO, which limits protesting hours to 9-6. Says does not comply with constitutional time, place and manner restrictions. Says treats protesters’ messages more harshly than ICE.
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Adam Gottlieb, a protester who is a regular presence at the processing center, is speaking against the EO, “which collaborates with these forces of fear and repression… show us which side you’re on.” Now they are singing another song about “the violence of the soldier
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Speaker says he thinks it unlikely the agents would harm the BFD/BPD.
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Thompson inquired about the name of the song (“Speedily in our days”) and thanks Karen for her comment. A guy whose name I didn’t catch is calling for Broadview to take the fence down on Beach Street. “The time has come to go beyond those words and to calmly, nonviolently take down the fence.”
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A woman named I think Karen from nearby Westchester is asking about the new restrictions on protesting hours via the recently signed EO. Says she is requesting an exemption for the volunteer supply tent.
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A woman who identifies herself as part of the movement outside the processing center about a quarter mile down the road says she feels the need to share a song.
Then this happened:
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First is Angela Patterson, discussing a “crisis of leadership” in the Broadview Police Dept. Chief Thomas Mills is standing 18 in from the podium.
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On to public comment, oh boy. “Quite a list,” per Clerk Kevin McGrier