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Loukessa Hawkins says she was gathering petition signatures for Ald Jason Ervin’s challenger Justina Winfrey outside Spencer Elementary School on Tuesday when she was confronted by an intimidating man she says was obviously sent by Ald Ervin.
“I put my clipboard and things I was holding to my chest and he began to snatch them outta my hand. So, we were wrestling and I was like you’re not gonna take my stuff and he said, ‘Gimme this ‘s’ and he snatched it down, hurting my bum, and took it!”
She says she called police and filed a complaint because she says this kind of Chicago politics has got to end. “We are free. People died for us to have a free vote and to put into office who we want to have in office.”
A spokesman for Ald Ervin says, “We have no idea what happened here and we do not condone any violence of any sort in politics.”
Bill Cameron, WLS-AM
