Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles PARKS AND PROTESTERS HIT THE STREETS HERE IN CHICAGO TONIGHT AS WELL THEY'VE BEEN MARCHING ALL OVER THE LOOP IN INTO THE NEAR NORTH SIDE FOR SEVERAL HOURS SUNDAY AS DANA REBIK HAS LONG BEEN FOLLOWING THEM. SHE JOINS US NOW LIVE. HI DANA. AND THAT HAS BEEN A VERY DIFFICULT TASK TONIGHT THIS GROUP MOVES VERY QUICKLY AND THEY HAVE BEEN ALL OVER THE LOOP, TURNING RIGHT TURNING LEFT ONTO A ONE-WAY STREETS INTO ON COMING TRAFFIC. SO IT IS BUT DEFINITELY BEEN A CHALLENGE THEY ARE KEEPING CHICAGO POLICE ON THEIR TOES TONIGHT, IT'S CREATED SOMEWHAT OF A TRAFFIC NIGHTMARE JUST BEHIND ME HERE RIGHT MICHIGAN AND THIS INTERSECTION WAS JUST CLOSED OFF. AS THE PROTESTERS MOVED THROUGH HERE AT ABOUT A BLOCK SOUTH FROM HERE YOU CAN SEE THERE ARE SOME MORE POLICE ACTIVITY. NOW TECHNICALLY RIGHT NOW I GATHERINGS OF 10 PEOPLE OR MORE ARE PROHIBITED IN ILLINOIS UNDER THE GOVERNOR'S ORDERS, BUT CHICAGO POLICE AND MAYOR LIGHTFOOT I HAVE ALLOWED THIS PROTEST TO CONTINUE TONIGHT. IT HAS BEEN PRIMARILY PEACEFUL FOR THE MOST PART THEY SPENT THE LAST 5 HOURS NOW MARCHING THROUGH THE CITY DEMANDING JUSTICE FOR GEORGE WHAT STARTED AS A RELATIVELY SMALL PROTEST NEAR MILLENNIUM PARK GREW IN SIZE AS THE NIGHT WORE ON DEMONSTRATORS MARCHING THROUGH THE LOOP SPEAKING OUT ON THE DEATH OF GEORGE I THINK EVERY DAY. YOU WAKE UP IS LIKE ARE YOU GOING TO BE NEXT WHO'S GOING TO BE NEXT. YOU KNOW YOU FEEL THE DREADED THIS IT'S JUST LOSING OUT YOU CAN FILL OF THE GROUP HAD NO DESIGNATED ROUTE WALKING INTO ON COMING TRAFFIC DOWN MICHIGAN AVENUE CHICAGO POLICE ON BIKES AND IN VEHICLES TRIED TO BLOCK THEM BUT THEY CONTINUED ON WEAVING ON TO SIDE STREETS AND MAKING THEIR WAY NEAR THE CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE AND UNDERNEATH THE STOCK EXCHANGE PROTESTERS THEN TRIED TO GET ON TO 2.90 FROM CONGRESS AT ONE POINT BUT POLICE STOPPED THEM. THE GROUP ALSO REENACTING MINNEAPOLIS POLICE OFFICER DEREK CHILD BEEN KNEELING ON FLOYD'S NECK AND TAKE A LOOK POLICE NOT BEING HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR A YEAR OR ARE YOU KIDDING ME FOR SAYING NO MORE TO ARGUE THEY ARE CALLING FOR PEACEFUL, BUT MEANINGFUL DEFIANCE WITH MORE PROTESTS PLANNED FOR THE WEEKEND HERE IN THE WINDY IT. HARRY SAYS THAT IT PROBLEMS WITH NOT ONLY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT WHAT THIS GOVERNMENT'S THAT'S WHAT THIS MOMENT IS STILL OUT THERE AND AND THE RIGHT AND THE HISTORY. AND HERE IS A LIVE LOOK AT SKY CAM 9 ABOVE THE PROTEST AT THIS HOUR AT LAST CHECK THEY WERE AT AND NEAR MONROE AND STATE THEY CONTINUE TO BE ON THE MOVE TONIGHT, CHICAGO POLICE ALSO BLOCKING OFF SOME INTERSECTIONS HERE ALONG MICHIGAN AVENUE NOW AT RANDOLPH HERE IN WASHINGTON, MICHIGAN AND FURTHER DOWN THERE IS SOME MORE POLICE ACTIVITY WHEN WE ARE WE'RE FOLLOWING THE GROUP A LITTLE EARLIER WE DID SPEAK WITH A WOMAN WHO WAS RUNNING BY SHE CAME UP TO OUR LIVE TRUCK AND WAS BLEEDING ON HER LEG SHE SAID THAT SOMEONE HAD THROWN A GLASS BOTTLE THAT IMPACT HER SO SHE HEADING HOME FROM THIS EVENT BUT OTHER THAN THAT WE HAVE NOT HEARD OF ANY ARRESTS TONIGHT AND I NO ONE ELSE GETTING HURT AND NO DESTRUCTION OR DAMAGE TO PROPERTY HERE IN THE CITY THAT TOMORROW ANOTHER DEMONSTRATION IS PLANNED AT SET FOR 1 O'CLOCK AT THE TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH THAT'S ON WEST 26TH STREET ORGANIZED BY THE GROUP BLACK LIVES MATTER LIVE
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