Riot Cops everywhere.

I see two CTA buses of Riot cops get off. More keep coming from every single direction.  I ask the Riot cops if they paid their fare. They look like they didn’t.

Now CFD begins to show. Looks like they’re going to use water hoses on protesters. I hang around for a little bit, hoping to find anything I can relay to the masses about what to expect. I gather no intel.  I have to head back home. Looks like I’ll have to fight another day. 

Cops have put on their tear gas masks on. I put on a homemade mask to protect myself. It has been treated to help block tear gas. It was given to me by a fellow Black Bloc’er at the start of the parade. Thanks comrade.

We continue to hold and wait. 

Riot cops move between us and the stalemate. Will not allow anyone through. A woman needed to give asthma medicine to an injured protester and they wouldn’t let her through. I yelled at him for being a piece of shit human being. Another person got injured and they wouldn’t let a medic through.  Cops are assholes.

We continue our defense of the First Aid Station. By now I have contacted my people and told them we are soft walling a 1st Aid Station. We won’t give it up until all the injured are able to leave and walk out. Another human chain to prevent riot cops from reaching the injured. 

Tactically, we also have to hold the position for the easy exit of protesters once tear gas is thrown. 

Riot Cops move in on the median. Stalemate continues. Defending the second first aid station we setup continues. “No pictures” is enforce since we’re along a chain link fence.