#ChicagoProtest on 5/30 [@alyssa_taylor45]: A protester was taken down by multiple police officers and beaten. They seemingly knelt down on his neck.
#ChicagoProtest on 5/30 [@JCB_Journo]: Police pepper-spray reporter holding press pass and yelling press.
#ChicagoProtest on 5/30(?) [bit.ly/2WVjLgB]: Officers standing in line missing the badges from their uniforms. The video poster states that the officers took off their badges and then pushed protesters down the stairs and swung batons at them.
#ChicagoProtest on 5/31 [@johncusack]: Police are apprehensive towards John Cusack recording a flaming car, proceed to harass him. Cusack states in the tweet that the police came at him with batons, hitting his bike.
#ChicagoProtest on 5/31 [@cruzzzyc]: Police pull black women out of the car and throw them to the ground. Block Club Chicago states the victims were detained for disorderly conduct and that police drove off with one of the victims in the car, leaving the other two in the lot.
#ChicagoProtest on 5/31: Cops struck Ghian Foreman, the Chicago Police Board President, five times in the legs with batons. He has filed a complaint with the Citizens Office of Police Accountability.
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#ChicagoProtest on 5/31 [@CHICAGOCREATUR1]: Officers cover badges and remove body cams
#ChicagoProtest on 6/1 [@greg_doucette]: CPD officer chasing down and punching a protester who was walking away.
#ChicagoProtest on 6/1 [@BLMChi]: Police chase protester and attack him on the ground while on live TV.
#ChicagoProtest on 6/2 [@ChrisDitton]: A police officer and a protester are walking down the sidewalk and begin to verbally argue. The officer grabs the protester and a group of people appear. The protester starts to walk away when another officer pushes him into a brick wall.
#ChicagoProtest on 6/2: Footage shows a protester on a bicycle who was blocking the street. As he is moving out of the way, police continue to push him on the side, hindering his balance. One officer slaps his phone out of his hand.
#ChicagoProtest on 6/2(?) [@TomSchuba]: The cameraman films several groups of people on the street and sidewalk who are hit with batons by police officers.
#ChicagoProtest on 6/4: Footage pans over a line of cops, none of whom have badges. The crowd is chanting, "Where's your badges?"
#ChicagoProtest on 7/17: Cop punches an 18 year old Black woman activist at a protest in Grant Park. She reportedly suffered multiple injuries to her face and had her teeth knocked out
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#ChicagoProtest on 7/17 [@poonfarm]: Series of violent arrests and altercations between police and protesters. Police tackle, shove, strike and pepper spray protesters indiscriminately. Protesters are also struck with batons.
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#ChicagoProtest on 7/17 [@DominicGwinn]: Series of violent arrests and altercations between police and protesters. Police tackle, shove, strike and pepper spray protesters indiscriminately. Press were also hit in this altercation.
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#ChicagoProtest on 7/17 [@poonfarm]: Series of violent arrests and altercations between police and protesters. Police tackle, shove, strike and pepper spray protesters indiscriminately. Press were also hit in this altercation.
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#ChicagoProtest on 7/17 [@poonfarm]: Series of violent arrests and altercations between police and protesters. Police tackle, shove, strike and pepper spray protesters indiscriminately. Press were also hit in this altercation.
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#ChicagoProtest on 7/17 [@KeepinKidsSafe]: An officer attempts to seize a bike from a protester for unknown reasons. The police officer swats at the protester's hands with his baton in an apparent attempt to release the protester's hold on the bike.
#ChicagoProtest on 7/17 [@colinbphoto]: First-person footage from a journalist shows a police officer shoving, threatening and harassing a journalist. Allegedly the officer began harassing the journalist, calling him a "smartass," after the journalist displayed his press badge.
#ChicagoProtest on 7/17 {@MarParNews]: Footage from a CBS Chicago reporter shows an officer knocking the phone out of her hand, then kicking it across the ground.
#ChicagoProtest on 7/17(?) [@frantheman10]: Police indiscriminately pepper spray protesters. An officer is standing some distance from protesters. He discharges pepper spray in the general direction of the protesters.
#ChicagoProtest on 7/18 [@jamaicaponders]: An undercover police vehicle drives on the sidewalk at a protest on W Fullerton in Chicago. A biker appears to be hit by the car; the protester gets away, but the police vehicle drives over the bike. The vehicle then drives away.
