UPDATES WITH BOND
Bond was set at $250,000 for two men charged for their alleged actions during an anti-white supremacy protest Tuesday night on the North Side.
The rally, organized by Black Rose-Rosa Negra Chicago, Haymaker Chicago and other community groups, began at 9:30 p.m. outside the Cook County courthouse at 2452 W. Belmont.
“The rally will denounce the CPD as complicit in the structures of white supremacy that give rise to fascism, and will demand the immediate release of community members arrested earlier today,” a statement by the organizers prior to the rally said.
Thomas Rainey, 50, of Rogers Park faces felony counts of aggravated battery of a peace officer and resisting or obstructing a peace officer, police said.
He was arrested while officers were attempting to place someone else into custody and he “repeatedly pushed officers using his hands and hips in an attempt to defeat a lawful arrest,” police said.
Ezra Arreola, 28, of Pilsen faces felony counts of resisting or obstructing a peace officer and reckless conduct, police said.
Arreola walked into the middle of the intersection at Belmont and Western and headed west on Belmont. Despite being asked “numerous times” to exit the street and walk on the sidewalk, officers tried to take him into custody but he pulled away, police said.
Bail was set at $250,000 for both men, according to the Cook County sheriff’s office. They were expected to return to court Tuesday. Both men could be released on electronic monitoring ahead of their trial, according to court records.
A third man, Ian Walsh, 25, of North Center, was also taken into custody during the demonstration, police said. Walsh faces one misdemeanor count of aggravated assault of a peace officer.
Walsh approached an officer and tried to strike the officer with an object before he was subdued and taken into custody, police said. He is scheduled to appear in court Sept. 22.
A police source said the commander of the 19th District was injured at the protest.