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Tones2345

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1. It was actually the police...

Reply to AllyCat (Original post)

Thu Sep 10, 2020, 08:10 AM

Sep 2020

The police banned protests on her block due to specific threats. She's obviously in support of the ban, but she didn't order the ban herself. They like to think that because she defended the ban, she instituted it, which is not true.

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Lightfoot's ban on protests on her block. Question. [View all] AllyCat Sep 2020 OP

It was actually the police... Tones2345 Sep 2020 #1

Thank you. I could only find her saying the "ordered" it. AllyCat Sep 2020 #2

Here's an article from the local PBS station Tones2345 Sep 2020 #3