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March draws local residents into shouting match with protesters in Bridgeport

Anti-capitalist protesters wait to march at 51st and Halsted Streets, in Chicago. (Nuccio DiNuzzo, Chicago Tribune / May 15, 2012)

By Ryan Haggerty Tribune reporter 8:36 p.m. CDT, May 15, 2012




A band of several dozen protesters marched up Halsted Street this evening from the South Side through Bridgeport, where some engaged in a shouting match with residents.

The marchers, some of whom covered their faces with hoods or bandanas, began their protest at about 51st Street and Halsted, chanting obscenities about police and police brutality.


About 20 bike-riding officers repeatedly rode to the front of the crowd of about 40 demonstrators and formed an angled line across Halsted Street to funnel them back onto the sidewalk. Then officers would walk their bikes next to the sidewalk to enforce the restriction.

When protesters slipped in front again, the whole process would start over.


Some curious residents tagged along during the early part of the march, which was without incident until the marchers reached Chicago Police Deering District headquarters in the Bridgeport neighborhood.


There, angry local residents shouted at the protesters to leave, while police stood between them to prevent altercations. Some protesters repeatedly yelled "De-escalate" when things appeared to get tense.


It was at least the second small protest of the day as demonstrators gear up for this weekend's gathering of world leaders at the May 20-21 NATO summit.

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Pictures of Protestors starting to muster

Pictures of Protestors starting to muster

A group tours the exterior of McCormick Place. Traffic control officers stated the group was with the Army. ? Antonio Perez, Chicago Tribune, May 15, 2012

Sounds like a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 ?

Oh Shit !

I forgot, Barry signed the NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT ON NEW YEARS EVE !

Never mind about the Posse Comitatus Act, it has been nullified.

Not that many of you would have noticed.


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40 Fed Agencies Man Secret Command Center Outside Chicago

40 Fed Agencies Man Secret Command Center Outside Chicago

40 Fed Agencies Man Secret Command Center Outside Chicago

Chicago cops, the FBI, Homeland Security, Secret Service and a large number of unnamed others have established a high-tech secret command center to surveil people exercising their First Amendment right in Chicago as the NATO war council unfolds this weekend.

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The Associated Press seems to be anticipating another police riot like the one in Chicago during the 1968 Democrat convention. During that police instigated riot, Mayor Richard Daley?s police beat up journalists, including Mike Wallace and Dan Rather.


Chicago?s current mayor, former Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, has not so far attacked journalists, although his cops are inclined to handcuff them for covering the news.

 

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Video: Sunday afternoon update I - CPD van hits protestor, tires slashed

Video: Sunday afternoon update I - CPD van hits protestor, tires slashed

Video: Sunday afternoon update I - CPD van hits protestor, tires slashed



Early Sunday afternoon NATO update from the Chicago Tribune newsroom with Jenniffer Weigel.


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2 more accused of planning to use Molotov cocktails during summit


Staff report 1:12 p.m. CDT, May 20, 2012




Two more men have been charged with planning to make Molotov cocktails to be used during the NATO summit.
Police would not say whether they are connected to three men in their 20s who were arrested in a Bridgeport raid earlier this week and charged under the state?s anti-terror statutes with planning to use Molotov cocktails during the summit.
Sebastian Senakiewicz, 24, of the 3600 block of North Odell Avenue, was arrested Thursday afternoon without incident at his home, according to a police report. He was charged Saturday afternoon.

Senakiewicz "had been planning/conspiring with more than two other individuals in the building of explosives, including molotov cocktails which were to be used/detonated during the NATO summit," according to the report.
According to prosecutors, he told others he was an anarchist member of Black Bloc and had ?a carful of explosives? capable of taking out a highway overpass. On Tuesday, he told others he had explosives hidden in a hollowed-out Harry Potter book at his home. But a search of his Chicago residence did not turn up any explosives, authorities said.
An attorney for the National Lawyers Guild, who is representing Senakiewicz, who works as a mechanic, called the accusations against her client ?extremely sensationalized charges.?

?He?s a political man being targeted because of his beliefs,? she said.
Mark Neiweem, 28, of the 2200 block of West 18th Place on the Lower West Side, was charged with one count of attempted possession of explosive or incendiary devices, prosecutors said. Neiweem "engaged in dialogue with a subject, during which time he provided same subject with a list of ingredients that are used in the construction of an explosive device," according to a police report.
Neiweem is on probation for punching a Chicago police officer in 2010 after authorities tried to question someone they thought was drunk and unresponsive. Prosecutors are trying to revoke his probation, saying he didn't do the required community service, according to records. A judge has yet to decide.
Neiweem was accused of meeting with associates in a Cook County forest preserve. During a private walk with one associate, Neiweem said he didn?t want to talk in front of the others because one of them had ?diarrhea of the mouth? and was sending reckless text messages that were being monitored by law enforcement, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors charged that Neiweem wanted an associate to go to a hobby shop and buy model rocket engines, PCB pipe and glue, so he could build a pipe bomb, authorities said. Prosecutors said Neiweem wrote the list of ingredients on a slip of paper that investigators have in evidence.

Neiweem?s attorney, Steven Saltzman, said his client had been in custody for at least 66 hours before he was charged, well beyond the 48-hour legal limit.

Senakiewicz has a minor criminal record, according to court documents. In September of 2008, he pleaded guilty to underage drinking, a misdemeanor, and paid a $370 fine and was sentenced to four months of court supervision, which he completed.
Senakiewicz was ordered held on $750,000 bail and Neiweem on $500,000 during a bond hearing today.
On Wednesday, three out-of-state men were arrested in a Bridgeport apartment raid and accused of plotting to hit President Obama's campaign headquarters, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's house and police stations with Molotov cocktails, according to court documents.

The trio -- Brian Church, 20, of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Jared Chase, 24, of Keene, N.H., and Brent Vincent Betterly, 24, of Oakland Park, Fla. -- were charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism, providing material support for terrorism and possession of an explosive or incendiary device.

They were the first people to ever be charged with violating the state?s anti-terror statutes, which were enacted after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, authorities said.

Their arrests were the result of an investigation since early May into a group suspected of making Molotov cocktails ? crude bombs usually created by filling glass beer bottles with gasoline, according to court records.

Senakiewicz and Neiweem were arrested a day later, but police would not say if they were connected to the three.
Senakiewicz had been staying with a family friend, David Griffiths, for about seven or eight weeks at his Northwest Side home.

Griffiths, who said he is best friends with Senakiewicz's mother and stepfather who live in Florida, allowed him to stay in his home and do odd jobs for cash. Griffiths, 58, did not know Senakiewicz's political views.

He let Senakiewicz stay with him because "the kid helped me" since Griffiths has been out of work on medical disability. As far a Griffiths knew, Senakiewicz is from the Harwood Heights area and was homeless.

Griffiths said Senakiewicz is broke and unemployed.

"I'm not going to let a friend's kid starve to death and live on the street," Griffiths said Sunday morning from his garage, where he works on cars as a hobby.

On Thursday afternoon, Griffiths was lying on his couch when Chicago police officers stormed through his front door and ordered him to lay on the floor and then handcuffed him, he said.

Police made their way through the home and arrested Senakiewicz when he returned to the home a short time later.

Griffiths said he was upset at how the officers stormed through his door and kicked open others, but said overall they were very professional.

Griffiths doesn't know much about Senakiewicz's political views, but believes he attended the May Day rally downtown earlier this month. Senakiewicz came to the home recently with two button pins expressing dissatisfaction with Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Griffiths said. One of them showed the mayor's first name scrawled on the button and crossed out.

Griffiths says he doesn't plan on letting him back into his home.

"Did I trust the kid? Yeah, unfortunately," Griffiths said. "Maybe too much."
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