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    Open letter to Chicago’s top cop: COVID-19 police ‘surge’ terrorizing West Side black communities

    By Richard Wallace (Equity and Transformation) | May 1, 2020

    Organizer Richard Wallace says the police department is using force to make black residents follow stay-at-home orders, “regardless of the circumstance.”

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    Open letter to Chicago’s top cop: COVID-19 police ‘surge’ terrorizing West Side black communities

    To newly appointed Chicago Police Department Superintendent David Brown: You apologized last week to aldermen on Chicago’s North and Northwest sides for pulling officers from their communities and sending them to the West Side to enforce “dispersal orders.” The apology should have been to the West Side residents who witnessed the “surge” of officers chasing black folks through the streets, an image reminiscent of slave patrols in the 1700s.

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