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Jessa Crispin, the proprietor of Bookslut and a Chicago literary impressario, reports that she, along with a host of other lit-types, got her talented ass kicked out of an art gallery lit party. She links to this recounting of events:
For the moment, I think I am in a poetry paradise. The party is only beginning.
And then a swarm of police wearing bulletproof vests with badges on ropes around their necks like characters from The Shield illegally storm into this private art gallery. Without so much as a search warrant or even an explanation, five of them surround the DJ and demand he turn off Mark Morrison’s “Return of the Mack.” Issuing uncompromising threats, they force the DJ to announce over the microphone that without so much as a discussion EVERYONE MUST LEAVE THE PREMISES.
Like a scene out of Robocop, a small army, in ominous black jumpsuits with CHICAGO POLICE in big white letters across their chests, arm the exits as hundreds of literate citizens file out into the night.
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July 23rd, 2007 at 7:39 am
According to Chicagoist.com the reason was “underage drinking” and that police had been tipped and were only “doing their job”.
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So, their job is to threaten and abuse? What happened to serve and protect?
July 23rd, 2007 at 8:18 am
The spirit of Mayor Richard J. Daley lives!
July 24th, 2007 at 12:15 am
Maybe the police thought the poets were all Chileans.
(Sorry about that, Toronto; I guess I’m not above taking a cheap shot.)
July 24th, 2007 at 5:07 am
We’re totally supportive of cheap shots, Art. Go for the kidneys.