Gregory Royal Pratt
@royalpratt
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Chicago Tribune investigative reporter, author "The City is Up for Grabs." Little Village raised. Proud @ctguild. I'm just trying to make my city a better place
Joined November 2009
Read @chicagotribune excerpt from "The City is Up for Grabs: How Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Led and Lost a City in Crisis.” “They won’t burn my city down,” a look behind the scenes at 2020 riots and MLL City Hall. Check it out and preorder https://t.co/ZVcJ9Q7YCJ
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Tribune reporter Gregory Royal Pratt recounts and assesses the complex legacy of Lori Lightfoot, a controversial mayor.
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NEWS: Civil rights firm alleges that Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino personally violated a judge’s order restricting tear gas use. Photo is from court filing by Loevy and Loevy.
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Federal Judge Ellis has tried to curb ICE/Border Patrol use of tear gas. In the video we reviewed, there were no clear warnings from the federal agents.
NEWS: Video shot by a resident outside the Little Village mall shows what appears to be another tear gassing by immigration agents in Chicago’s streets. Rapid responders afterward collected the agents’ materials.
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NEWS: Video shot by a resident outside the Little Village mall shows what appears to be another tear gassing by immigration agents in Chicago’s streets. Rapid responders afterward collected the agents’ materials.
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The judge will issue a ruling tomorrow. Govt attorney said they considered releasing him pending his case ongoing but the “client” said no because Torres didn’t cooperate with his arrest
At the federal courthouse this morning for a hearing for Ruben Torres Maldonado, whose daughter Ofelia has stage four cancer. She is in the courtroom. So are community supporters and Alds. Matt Martin and Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth
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U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez is also here to show support for her constituent.
At the federal courthouse this morning for a hearing for Ruben Torres Maldonado, whose daughter Ofelia has stage four cancer. She is in the courtroom. So are community supporters and Alds. Matt Martin and Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth
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At the federal courthouse this morning for a hearing for Ruben Torres Maldonado, whose daughter Ofelia has stage four cancer. She is in the courtroom. So are community supporters and Alds. Matt Martin and Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth
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New: Gov. JB Pritzker and the state GOP House leader bickered in texts after a conservative influencer filmed Pritzker’s home & the GOP leader refused to publicly condemn it, texts obtained @chicagotribune show — story here with @PetrellaReports
https://t.co/waCfnpdcWP
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NBC reports that some ICE recruits are being sent to training without background checks and with serious criminal histories.
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An Oak Park attorney who was arrested near his child’s school says federal agents pointed a gun at him, had “Chiraq Team 2” group chat. He had been whistling and honking horn to warn people of their presence. By @rebeccapaigejo
https://t.co/q7ZkEIvWTS
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Federal immigration agents arrested Scott Sakiyama outside his child’s Oak Park elementary school this week after he followed them and honked his horn to warn others of their presence.
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Truly heartbreaking news.
Statement from the Darren Bailey / Aaron Del Mar Campaign On Wednesday evening, Darren and his wife, Cindy, received the heartbreaking news no parent ever wants to hear. Their son, Zachary, his wife, Kelsey, and their two young children, Vada Rose, age 12, and Samuel, age 7,
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In @Poynter today, Chicago journalists discuss covering Trump’s surge over immigration. I am in here as well as many of my colleagues at the Tribune and from other media outlets across Chicago. Collectively, it is tremendous and a tremendous amount of work: https://t.co/wQjSBEJ6CA
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‘It’s really exhausting, mentally and physically. But somebody has to record history’
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From earlier today, immigration agents chasing a man outside a popular 26th St grocery/restaurant in Little Village.
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On 26th St. today I watched restaurants station workers inside their front entryways so they could unlock the door for each customer and then relock the door behind each one. w/ @royalpratt @Mabuckley88 @LAURA_N_ROD
https://t.co/LrMz1OFMCe
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Immigration agents took at least five people into custody in Little Village on Wednesday, the neighborhood’s alderman said.
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It's called journalism.
Why is a Chicago Tribune reporter telegraphing the location of federal law enforcement?
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One thing folks might miss: ICE detention is generally discretionary. The feds can allow this man out while his case continues. He has a family here and owns his home — by reasonable read of flight risk factors, not a flight risk.
ICE arrests Chicago man whose teenage daughter is fighting cancer: “He belongs with her.” I spent yesterday afternoon with Ofelia Torres and her mother, Sandibell, talking about Ruben Torres. Here’s the story https://t.co/ESFKrJNDnf
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Chicago man's legal filing argues his deportation would impose “exceptional” hardship on his children, one of whom has Stage 4 cancer. DHS called it “nothing more than a desperate Hail Mary attempt” to keep him in the country. From @royalpratt: https://t.co/eVIoy2Mnk5
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Ofelia Torres has spent almost every day of the past month at Lurie Children’s Hospital, where the 16-year-old Lake View High School student is fighting cancer.
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Community report: ICE is on 26th Street by (at?) El Milagro. This is the heart of Chicago’s Mexican community in Little Village
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U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez + others calling for Ruben Torres to be released to be with his daughter Ofelia, a 16-year old Lake View HS student sick with cancer. “They should be together right now but instead Ruben became another person taken by this rogue agency,” Ramirez said.
ICE arrests Chicago man whose teenage daughter is fighting cancer: “He belongs with her.” I spent yesterday afternoon with Ofelia Torres and her mother, Sandibell, talking about Ruben Torres. Here’s the story https://t.co/ESFKrJNDnf
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“They’re lying low to do the dirty deed.”
What happened to focusing on "the worst of the worst?" WGN Investigates found the vast majority of people ICE detains don't have criminal convictions. Border czar's response: "They’re lying low to do the dirty deed.” https://t.co/Mqdq6abEy7
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