CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Demonstrators Thursday morning outside Lollapalooza protested Chicago's youth curfew and policies that they said criminalize young people.
About two dozen Good Kid Mad City (GKMC) members held a short rally outside the Lollapalooza gate on Jackson. They said underage festival goers inside will have an unfair advantage at night when the 10 p.m. youth curfew hits.
“And those curfews are disproportionately enforced against Black and brown kids,” said Kara Crutcher, a member of GKMC’s legal team.
Crutcher said Chicago’s youth curfew is unconstitutional and allows event ticket holders a for-pay option around the ordinance.
“We are prepared to file a federal lawsuit against the city of Chicago if they are not willing to have conversations with us about the problems with the curfew and the ways we can find better solutions to violence in our city,” Crutcher said.
One of the GKMC members said the organization was outside Lollapalooza Thursday to call for an end to the curfew.
“As a young black man, I am tired of being stopped and criminalized by the police,” he said. “They have already been stopping and frisking us, but now they have another reason to be racist against us.”
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