{"id":36539,"date":"2016-03-09T16:56:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T22:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=36539"},"modified":"2016-03-09T16:56:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T22:56:49","slug":"asian-american-community-members-unite-against-anita-alvarez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/asian-american-community-members-unite-against-anita-alvarez\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian American community members unite against Anita Alvarez"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Shanshan Wang<\/strong><\/p>\n

Accusing Anita Alvarez of inaction during police brutality investigations, two dozen Asian Americans protested in downtown Chicago Tuesday against the incumbent Cook County State\u2019s Attorney.<\/p>\n

Participants, mostly young people from a variety of communities, chanted \u201cAnita Alvarez must go\u201d in English as well as in Korean, Cantonese, Bangla and Tagalog. Their hope is that people will vote Alvarez out of office in the upcoming March 15 election.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe have seen candidates like Anita Alvarez attend Asian cultural events in order to \u2018win\u2019 our support, while ignoring our community\u2019s actual needs and concerns when they are elected into office,\u201d said Lakshmi Sundaresan, a South Asian American community member, at the press conference.<\/p>\n

Community members stood in front of 69 W. Washington, where Alvarez\u2019s office and the Board of Elections Commissioners for the City of Chicago are located. The crowd chanted \u201cSixteen shots!\u201d, criticizing Alvarez for waiting over a year to charge Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s important for Asian Americans to stand in solidarity with the black community in Chicago, especially after the recent cover-up that happened with Laquan McDonald\u2019s shooting,\u201d said Nashiha Alam, 21, a senior from Loyola University Chicago, who held a sign in Bangla. \u201cWe need to mobilize our community to come out and take action to produce actual change.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Pamphlets\"
Community members gave out \u201cTen Things I Hate About Anita\u201d pamphlets, which were produced by Eva Nagao and Monica Trinidad. (Shanshan Wang \/ MEDILL)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The speakers also pointed out cases involving Asian Americans, including the case in 2013 in which a Chinese American woman, Jessica Jianqing Klyzek, was struck by the police and verbally abused during a raid on a West Side tanning salon. Klyzek was threatened with death and deportation though she is a U.S. citizen.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe police feel free to act this way thanks to a police culture that doesn’t value life, a corrupt State\u2019s Attorneys Office led by Anita Alvarez, and an intentionally impotent \u2018Independent\u2019 Police Review Authority,\u201d said Bettina Johnson, a mixed race Black and Filipino community member, who spoke at the press conference.<\/p>\n

Alvarez has been faced with many protests as she runs for a third term in office, vying against Kim Foxx and Donna More. According to the Chicago Tribune, during a February 4 debate before the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board, Alvarez defended the investigation of the Laquan McDonald case, saying she believed no mistakes were made. \u201cIt has been a meticulous, thorough, comprehensive investigation,\u201d she said at the time.<\/p>\n

Sundaresan said the group that gathered downtown Tuesday want to be clear that they do not work for or coordinate with the Kim Foxx campaign but believe Foxx is a strong alternative candidate. After the press conference, some community members marched inside the building to vote early.<\/p>\n

Photo at top: Two dozen Asian Americans protested in downtown Chicago against incumbent Cook County State\u2019s Attorney Anita Alvarez in front of 69 W. Washington. (Shanshan Wang \/ MEDILL)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Shanshan Wang Accusing Anita Alvarez of inaction during police brutality investigations, two dozen Asian Americans protested in downtown Chicago Tuesday against the incumbent Cook County State\u2019s Attorney. Participants, mostly young people from a variety of communities, chanted \u201cAnita Alvarez must go\u201d in English as well as in Korean, Cantonese, Bangla and Tagalog. 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