Chicago\u2019s 47th annual gay pride parade was disrupted several times by the usual city disruptions \u2014 gang activity, gunshots, and drunks \u2014 but the event was also disrupted by a car driving into a group of bystanders. Then there was an even larger interruption by \u201cblack lives matter\u201d protesters.<\/p>\n
Just about every Chicago parade these days features gunfire in the perimeters as gangs clash with police and drunks have probably been a parade disruption since forever. But this year a man tried to drive into the parade route, ramming his car into some bystanders \u2014 but not hurting anyone seriously.<\/p>\n
Police swarmed the vehicle, smashed in the rear window and yanked out the driver, a middle-aged white man, and arrested him. Chicago police have released no details on the man\u2019s identity nor his motivations for ramming the barricades for the parade.<\/p>\n
But by far the biggest disruption was from a large group of \u201cblack lives matter\u201d protesters. The group was joined by members of the black queer community of Chicago who announced the disruption on their website.<\/p>\n
After noting that they had \u201cpurposefully disrupted the Chicago Pride Parade,\u201d the queer group explained their reasoning.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do so,\u201d the group said, \u201cbecause our people are dying at the hands of police, military and state-funded militias around the globe. We do so because we refuse to be tokenized by the same corporations that sponsor state violence, refuse a living wage and profit off our poverty. We do so because young queer people need a better outlet to celebrate themselves than a mire of consumption and sexual violence.\u201d<\/p>\n
The queer group was also attacked by the \u201cblack lives matter\u201d protesters who held signs and walked as a group to push their own message.<\/p>\n
Source: Breitbart.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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