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Chip Mitchell

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Chip Mitchell

@ChipMitchell1

@WBEZ public safety, policing and public health. Ex-assistant coach of my daughter’s baseball team. Blocker of anonymous cowards. Mobile/Signal: 312-286-9986.

Chicago and Bogotá

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Joined April 2009

Chip Mitchell
@ChipMitchell1
Jan 7, 2021
1/13 The people who stormed the U.S. Capitol are getting support from the president of Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police lodge. John Catanzara, elected to represent the city’s 12,000 rank-and-file cops, told me last night he understands the frustration. His explanation:
Chip Mitchell
@ChipMitchell1
Jul 19, 2019
BREAKING: Nearly five years after Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke shot 16 rounds into teenager Laquan McDonald, a city panel votes to fire a sergeant and three other veteran officers, accusing them of betraying their duty to cover up for Van Dyke.
Chip Mitchell
@ChipMitchell1
Aug 7, 2020
BREAKING: #Illinois State Board of Elections finds #KanyeWest submitted less than half the 2,500 valid signatures required to appear on the November ballot as an independent presidential candidate in his home state. The board tossed out 1,928 of the 3,128 signatures he submitted.
Chip Mitchell
@ChipMitchell1
Jul 5, 2023
Fireworks across Chicago right now, recorded by wife (in the window seat).
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Chip Mitchell
@ChipMitchell1
Jan 7, 2021
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2/13 “There was no arson. There was no burning of anything. There was no looting. There was very little destruction of property. It was a bunch of pissed-off people that feel an election was stolen, somehow, some way.”
Chip Mitchell
@ChipMitchell1
Jan 7, 2021
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3/13 “Evidence matters. Until that appears, shame on them for what they did, but it was out of frustration. There’s no fights. There’s no, obviously, violence in this crowd.
Chip Mitchell
@ChipMitchell1
Jan 7, 2021
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Quote correction: I listened to the tape again. He said "shady," not "shitty."
Chip Mitchell
@ChipMitchell1
Jan 7, 2021
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4/13 “They pushed past security and made their way to the Senate chamber. Did they destroy anything when they were there? No. Very different than what happened all across this country all summer long in Democratic-ran cities and nobody had a problem with that.
Chip Mitchell
@ChipMitchell1
Jan 7, 2021
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6/13 “If the worst crime [at the Capitol] is trespassing, so be it. But to call these people treasonous is beyond ridiculous and ignorant.”
Chip Mitchell
@ChipMitchell1
Jul 7, 2023
1/3 BREAKING: The city of Chicago is moving dozens of #migrants on two school buses from a West Side police station after alleged sexual abuse of female migrants, including a child, by officers.
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Chip Mitchell
@ChipMitchell1
Jan 7, 2021
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13/13 “This is not some mass insurrection, coup attempt. They’re not destroying or burning down the fricking Capitol building. This hyperbole and this emotion that the media is spewing now, like this is some kind of end-of-times scenario, is ridiculous.”
Chip Mitchell
@ChipMitchell1
Jan 7, 2021
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5/13 “They were all blaming the police and the police’s response to the violence, looting and criminal behavior.”
Chip Mitchell
@ChipMitchell1
Jan 7, 2021
Replying to @ChipMitchell1
7/13 “Do I support [the Capitol attack]? I wouldn’t have partaken in it. They’re individuals. They get to do what they want. Again, they were voicing frustration. They’re entitled to voice their frustration.
Chip Mitchell
@ChipMitchell1
Jan 7, 2021
Replying to @ChipMitchell1
8/13 “They clearly have been ignored and they’re still being ignored as if they’re lunatics and treasonous now, which is beyond stupid. Again, it’s a whole side of the argument and, primarily, your profession is at the root of it, basically championing Joe Biden the whole time.”