‘please do not expand the list by killing people.’
(Source: salma)
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.
LRAD isn’t deployed. We continue to hold and wait for medics to get their tactics together.
Medics get their orders figured out. We escort them to safety. Now I’m stuck between a wall of riot cops and protesters. I can’t get to our comrades to help any further. Looks like I have to head home…
Our defense of the First Aid Station is successful. All the injured are treated and secured. We sit and talk a bit to the medics and make sure they have their tactics in place. They have to discuss other medics’ needs, how to get out safely but still tend to the wounded.
The protesters continue to hold. Reports of LRAD being deployed now. Ear plugs go in.
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.
I spot a sign. This was ripped off the wall during the Anti-Capitalism rally on #M19 march and defaced.