{"id":211543,"date":"2020-08-06T06:32:43","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T06:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=211543"},"modified":"2020-08-09T08:16:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T08:16:33","slug":"teen-activist-who-rallied-to-defund-police-and-remove-police-from-schools-is-shot-dead-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=211543","title":{"rendered":"Teen Activist Who Rallied to Defund Police and Remove Police from Schools Is Shot Dead in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Madness Hub \u2013 Aug 5, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A teen activist in Chicago who rallied to defund police and remove police from schools was shot dead on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Caleb Reed was found shot in the head. No suspect has been named in the shooting.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Caleb lived and was shot in our ward this weekend. He was a light in our community that was extinguished too soon. We need to address the root causes of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GunViolence?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GunViolence<\/a> so that we stop losing our people. I ask that people help continue the work he was doing and pray for the family. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WFWv9DXY2Z\">https:\/\/t.co\/WFWv9DXY2Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andre Vasquez, Political Account ? (@Andrefor40th) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Andrefor40th\/status\/1290114619583807488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The young activist spoke out against police.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is Caleb Reed, a Freedom Fighter, speaking at a press conference in early June demanding <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CopsOutCPS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CopsOutCPS<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Such a beautiful soul. Rest in peace. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3JJWRP6uVq\">pic.twitter.com\/3JJWRP6uVq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kelly Garcia (@_KellyGarcia__) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_KellyGarcia__\/status\/1290134116126482432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/chicago-teen-activist-shot-in-head\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\">The Blaze<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"> reported:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Caleb Reed, a 17-year-old student activist from Mather High School in Chicago, was found shot in the head on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The teen\u2019s death comes just weeks after he publicly called for the district to remove police from district schools.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">What are the details?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Reed, described by the Chicago Sun-Times as a \u201cstudent leader with a youth activist group,\u201d was discovered on a sidewalk of the West Rogers Park neighborhood in the city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He had been shot in the head.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The teen, a leader with student group Voices of Youth in Chicago Education, was an advocate of removing police from Chicago schools.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">No suspect have been named in Reed\u2019s death at the time of this reporting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u2018I\u2019m proud to be a black young man\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Just weeks ago, Reed spoke at a board of education meeting in support of removing police from the district. During the meeting, he recalled his own experience with officers in his school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">During the meeting, Reed said, \u201cMy sophomore year of high school I was arrested for attending a basketball game because I didn\u2019t have my ID. I sat in a police station for six hours. I knew it wasn\u2019t right at all, but inside I was angry, confused.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.madnesshub.com\/2020\/08\/teen-activist-who-rallied-to-defund.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventeen-year-old student activist found shot in head<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211545,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211543\/revisions\/211545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}