On 71st and Jeffrey there’s already been one arrest.
The scene is immediately tense as the man in the van says he can’t breathe and officers immediately circle up. 
Directly behind it, another confrontation as police push locals back onto the sidewalk
Tension breaks as protesters move to the jail
Police are already putting up tape and letting nobody into the jail.
Police are moving the man they arrested earlier. They are blocking protesters from the sight line of the stretcher, but someone caught sight of him to confirm the ID
There’s some confusion about why the man might need an ambulance transport. Protesters say police beat the man, while police say nothing. #chicago
The man who has been taken to the hospital from the jail is Jedediah Brown, known to friends as Jed.
Twenty or thirty people mill around in front of the jail on 71st and Cottage Grove, trading perspectives on the arrests and waiting for news of the protesters who’ve been arrested.
An officer reads my notes over my shoulder. A local moves me away and tells me about how the officer once pulled him over and confiscated his gun, though the man shows me his concealed permit and his NRA membership card.
Another man who’s entirely unrelated to this protest came to bail out a friend and has been denied access to the jail.
Jed’s father has come and been denied information about his son. “They told me he was grown,” he tells me, “but that’s still my son, and I hear he’s in the hospital. And they put him there.”
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