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Thank you Block Club for helping to document this experience, which is happening dozens of times each day across our city.

Thank you to the researchers, advocates, and community leaders that have provided us with this important information.

STREET CLOSURE: The following streets will be closed to traffic for the festival from 7am on Friday, 8/8 thru midnight on Saturday, 8/9:

- Kimball Ave between W Lawrence Ave and W Eastwood, both sides of the street

- Leeland Ave between Kimball Ave and Bernard Ct, both sides of the street.

We need to expand CARE’s hours and staffing, strengthen its ties to mental health clinics, train dispatchers and ensure no one is left screaming on a sidewalk, unseen and unsupported. We’ve built so much already together. We cannot turn back now. Let’s invest in what works and help heal our city.

They’re already diverting crisis calls away from police and toward services that heal, and police departments themselves have welcomed their presence.

CARE teams include mental health professionals, peer support workers and first responders. They bring compassion, not cuffs. They offer support, not punishment. They show up with the training and experience to de-escalate and connect people in a way that fosters caring.

Thank you to everyone that came today to show support and solidarity, and to document this wrongful attack on our community.

These are mothers, fathers, parents, siblings, and their families will always carry with them the harm that was done today.

This afternoon I had the heartbreaking experience of fighting to defend 12 of our neighbors who were cruelly detained by ICE agents while attending their routine ISAP check-in appointments at the 2245 S. Michigan location.

👍 Trans Lifeline (translifeline.org)
👍 The Trevor Project (thetrevorproject.org)
👍 Immigration Equality (immigrationequality.org)
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