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Hagerty addresses student protesters Mayor cites costs, property damage in email to Schapiro By JACOB FULTON daily senior staffer @jacobnfulton
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Officers from the Northern Illinois Police Alarm System’s Mobile Field Force advance in full riot gear on protestors.
Police meet students with force
EPD, NIPAS use chemical ammunition, make one arrest on Saturday By BINAH SCHATSKY
daily senior staffer @binahschatsky
Evanston police and Illinois crowd control officers,
NUGW writes letter against police violence
In a Sunday statement, Northwestern University Graduate Workers condemned the police escalation — including the pepper-spraying and shoving student protestors — at Saturday’s NU Community Not Cops protest. At least two participating NUGW members were pepper-sprayed, the group wrote, during the 20th straight day of demonstrations demanding that NU divest from law enforcement. “Last night proved once again that it is heavily armed, militarized police who create and escalate violence,” NUGW wrote. “As NUCNC has long argued, and as we unfortunately saw on display last evening, the police do not, and never will, keep us safe.” NUGW wrote that Saturday night ’s escalation was also a direct result of University President Morton Schapiro’s controversial Oct. 19 email to the community condemning student protestors. In it, he warned
deployed in riot gear with K-9 support, used chemical ammunition and made one arrest during Saturday night’s anti-policing protest led by NU Community Not Cops.
any members of the NU community found to violate rules and laws would be held accountable for their actions. NUGW called his rhetoric a “threat of aggression” that gave police the “green light” to harm student protestors with impunity. The group called on Schapiro to resign and urged the University to meet NUCNC’s demands to abolish University Police and sever ties with the Evanston and Chicago Police Departments. Instead, NUGW said the University should “meaningfully invest ” in Black student communities in order to repair the harm done to them. NUGW added that its support for NUCNC’s abolitionist demands are not just a solidarity issue. The abolition of police, they wrote, would mean a “reduction in harm” faced by Black graduate workers at their workplaces — campus itself. “President Schapiro, who sits in one of the highest positions of power at this institution, helped to unleash this terror on his own students,” NUGW wrote. “He must resign immediately.” — Isabelle Sarraf
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Evanston Police Department and Northern Illinois Police Alarm System’s Mobile Field Force officers, who have been assisting EPD with protest management over the last few weeks,
flanked the crowd of about 150 students from their starting location at the John Evans Alumni Center to the street outside the Evanston » See PROTEST, page 6
After police arrested one Northwestern student and used chemical ammunition against protestors Saturday, Evanston Mayor Steve Hagerty wrote an open letter to University President Morton Schapiro addressing the NU Community Not Cops protests and their impact on the city. The protest was the 20th consecutive day of actions from NUCNC, which is advocating for the abolition of University Police. The group began protesting on Oct. 12 In the release, Hagerty said he supports the rights of student protestors to demonstrate peacefully and believes Evanston is undergoing a re-evaluation of its policing system. However, he said he doesn’t support property damage or physical attacks against police officers, which reportedly occurred during the Saturday protest. EPD and NUCNC presented conflicting reports on the source of the altercations. Medics at the protest told The Daily law enforcement on the scene utilized pepper spray
on protestors. The NU student who was arrested remained in police custody for approximately five hours. In a Sunday news release, EPD said the student was detained for allegedly hitting an officer, and was charged with a misdemeanor. Hagerty said he found the protestors’ issues with the city and its law enforcement “ironic,” citing the city’s reparations fund as reasoning that it is working to support its Black residents. However, many students involved with the protest criticized the statement, saying the reparations fund doesn’t absolve the city from its controversies related to EPD’s treatment of the Black community. In the letter, Hagerty also wrote that the continued protests have cost the city tens of thousands of dollars — which he expects NU to cover. He also said he expects law enforcement to continue to arrest protestors in cases of escalation. “My expectation is that your administration will remind these Northwestern organizers that officers also have families and their safety is as important as the safety of the protesters,” Hagerty wrote. “Our City will continue to arrest anyone who is seen harming or threatening harm to police officers, as well as damaging or defacing public property.” fulton@u.northwestern.edu
State’s Attorney Foxx seeks re-election
Despite national Smollett scandal, Foxx favored to win again By SAM HELLER
daily senior staffer @samheller5
After four years as Cook County State’s Attorney, Kim Foxx is running for re-election, facing off against Republican Pat O’Brien and Libertarian Brian Dennehy for the position. While Foxx is favored in the general election, she made national news last year in her handling of the Jussie Smollett case, which her opponents believe may hurt her chances of reelection. In January 2019, the actor was indicted for filing a false police report. Smollett initially claimed that he was a victim of a racist and homophobic hate crime, but there was later said to be evidence he staged the incident. Foxx dropped all criminal charges in March 2019, prompting criticism from her opponents, who said the decision was unjustified. » See ATTORNEY, page 6
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Kim Foxx at the Illinois Primary Election night earlier this year. Foxx is running for reelection for Cook County State Attorney against Republican nominee Pat O’Brien.
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