idk if anyone saw the Chicago Trump nonsense as it went down ...
My sister works a couple of doors down from the UIC Pavilion.
There had been a lot of agitation on campus all week long.
She was scheduled off at 6pm, with early or late work anytime.
Her shift was 1/3rd no show. She got out 1 hour early.
Normally she'd take the Train stop that's right next to that hall.
The Trump people started lining up at 10am, and the
protesters were right behind them. Some of the streets were
already closed down. She b-lined out of there, toward a stop
about 3 blocks away ... right through the staging area for the
regular protesters, who had their own counter-protesters.
She wasn't scared, but yeah you could taste the Riot in the air.
If she had stayed to normal quitting time, she'd have been
right in the middle of the spill out from the cancelling.
UIC campus police did not call off the rally, and supposedly
neither did the Chicago police nor the Illinois state police.
Trump is saying otherwise, as you might expect.
Some of the whole thing was definitely staged, on his end !!
I want to see official statements from the police.
Thank goodness my sister is OK (first things first).
