With her team’s season on the line Thursday night, junior guard Annalyse McCarty wanted to provide that much-needed spark for Aurora Central Catholic.

That’s not surprising, either. It’s why coach LeVada Smith has dubbed McCarty an “Energizer Bunny.” And then she delivered for the Chargers during a key situation in the fourth quarter.

“I was super scared,” McCarty said. “I was like, ‘Just don’t miss.’ Then I made it and I was like, ‘Deep breath.’ It gave us a good spark, but we just couldn’t pull through at the end.”

With ACC trailing by six points, McCarty converted a layup and drew a foul in the process. Even though she missed the free throw with 2:06 left, the Chargers felt like there was still a chance.

The fiery McCarty finished with six points, but the second-seeded Chargers came up short in their comeback bid as top-seeded Glenbard South pulled out a 43-36 win in the Class 3A De La Salle Sectional championship game in Chicago.

Sofia Orozco led all scorers with 11 points for ACC (22-11), while Ashley Watters added nine and Gina Dutkanych chipped in with eight. Rheayanna Ferguson and Jamie Mizwicki paced Glenbard South (29-4) with 10 points apiece.

Aurora Central Catholic’s Annalyse McCarthy (11) attempts a layup against Glenbard South during the Class 3A De La Salle Sectional championship game in Chicago on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026. (Nate Swanson / The Beacon-News)

McCarty’s shot, meanwhile, gave the Chargers hope. They stayed within arm’s length of Glenbard South all night, but that big bucket wasn’t enough to close the gap.

“When she made that, I was like, ‘We have to go, we have to make another basket,’” Orozco said. “Obviously, we didn’t, but we tried.”

Smith recognized in the moment how significant that shot was.

“Yeah, I thought that was huge,” Smith said. “She didn’t make the free throw, but I think it ignited people. Finally we have something positive. We can build on it. We just ran out of time.”

Aurora Central Catholic’s Annalyse McCarthy (11) dribbles around the Glenbard South defense during the Class 3A De La Salle Sectional championship game in Chicago on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026. (Nate Swanson / The Beacon-News)

The fact that McCarty focuses more on her cross country and track careers than focusing basketball wasn’t lost on Smith.

“If she played basketball year-round, I think she could play in college,” Smith said. “She has all the tools to be an even more accomplished basketball player. She goes out there and battles.”

For her part, McCarty contended that she’s not sure Smith’s assessment of her potential basketball future is entirely accurate. But it still means a lot just the same.

“I think I may be a little short,” McCarty said. “It makes me really happy. It makes me want to keep going.”

Aurora Central Catholic’s Annalyse McCarthy (11) reaches for a rebound against Glenbard South during the Class 3A De La Salle Sectional championship game in Chicago on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026. (Nate Swanson / The Beacon-News)

McCarty’s contributions don’t show up on the stat sheet every night, but Smith knows how valuable she has been in helping the Chargers get back to the sectional final.

“She’s always going, always flying around,” Smith said of McCarty. “What you saw there is what she usually does. She’ll get a steal or take a hard foul going to the basket. She’s very strong.”

Despite basketball being her second sport, McCarty cherishes moments like she had Thursday.

“I love basketball,” McCarty said. “I focus on basketball when it’s basketball season. I don’t mix the two.”

After two disappointing seasons that finished without regional titles, Smith was proud of ACC getting back to this stage, especially after losing Grace Grunloh and Ella Oester to injuries for the season before the winter even started, making their run even more impressive.

Aurora Central Catholic’s Annalyse McCarthy (11) drives past the Glenbard South defense during the Class 3A De La Salle Sectional championship game in Chicago on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026. (Nate Swanson / The Beacon-News)

Oester did make a late-season comeback.

“We struggled early,” Smith said. The kids were buying in. I think they started to realize that they needed each other. I’m proud of them. If you told me we lost two of our starters and Ella still battled back and we got to the sectional finals? I told them I’m proud of them.

“I felt like this season was one of the more rewarding seasons as a coach.”

McCarty, for one, realizes what the Chargers had to go through to get here.

“It was a battle at the beginning,” McCarty said. “We had a lot of tough losses. But we battled and kept getting better as the season went on.

Paul Johnson is a freelance reporter for The Beacon-News.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/27/annalyse-mccarty-aurora-central-catholic-basketball/ 

In 2006, more than 1,000 teenagers in Aurora walked out of their classrooms, protesting legislation aimed at tightening the United States’ borders and punishing undocumented immigrants and those who help them.

Then, just shy of two decades later, Aurora high school students took to the streets again — several times.

The stories of these protests and others across Illinois are currently being featured in an online display from the Aurora Public Library, called “Campus Protests in the Land of Lincoln,” which features newspaper clippings dating back as far as 1936 looking at the history of student activism in Aurora, and Illinois generally.

And the library exhibit, which was on display in the fall, has recently been updated online to incorporate these recent additions to Aurora’s history of student protests.

This past month, Aurora-area students have staged several walkouts in protest of President Donald Trump’s administration’s continued mass deportation campaign, part of a string of similar actions across Chicago and its suburbs.

The federal immigration crackdown in Chicago and the suburbs, which led to the detention of thousands, prompted resistance and solidarity by residents from all walks of life in recent months — from documenting detentions and the actions of federal agents to delivering candy on Halloween to those who didn’t feel safe enough to go door to door amid the immigration crackdown.

But lately, student walkouts have been taking hold in a number of communities in and around Chicago after ICE involvement in Minneapolis has garnered national attention, especially following the recent deaths of two American citizens who were shot and killed by federal immigration officers. Students have walked out in Chicago, in Aurora, in Naperville and Waukegan.

In Aurora, the walkouts began on Feb. 3, when dozens of East Aurora High School students left their classes and walked through downtown Aurora.

Aurora students walked out again on Feb. 9, and then again later that week as part of a coordinated national student action.

These walkouts, however, follow a tradition of similar student actions in the city and across the state, the Aurora Public Library display shows. The display looks at student actions as far back as a 1936 protest, when dozens of North Central College students protested the firing of a student secretary.

It also looks at more recent history, like the 2006 protest by Aurora students of a federal immigration bill that prompted protests across the country, and a 2018 anti-gun violence protest by West Aurora students in the wake of the Parkland shooting in Florida that left 17 people dead.

Connection to national actions and to national issues is a common theme of the local protests, said Ethan Mikolay, the Aurora Public Library librarian who put together the display.

“When things go on in our community, a lot of times it’s a direct response to, or it’s a direct reaction to, stuff that’s happening around the country,” Mikolay said. “It wasn’t just students in Aurora protesting, it was students around the country protesting, and Aurora was just a part of that broader movement.”

Mikolay said his work at the library includes helping community members sort through yearbooks, city directories, the library’s genealogy collection and local newspaper microfilm — for which he helps individuals locate obituaries, birth announcements and articles.

“Because of that, I’m always coming across headlines and stories, from anywhere from the 1850s to the 1960s, that sound like they could have been ripped straight out of today’s headlines,” Mikolay said.

He said the library is always looking for ways to showcase its collection and provide the community with “historical context about things they’re reading about in the news.”

So, last year, Mikolay found himself reading about student protests in the news, and said he wanted to find a way to tie it into the library’s collection.

That ultimately led to the display, which went up at the library in September.

A display that was part of an exhibit at the Aurora Public Library highlighting the history of student protests in Illinois is seen on Sept. 17, 2025. The exhibit is no longer on display at the library, but is available to examine online. (Aurora Public Library District)

Mikolay said that the library typically mirrors its in-person displays with a digital version, and it just so happened that the digital display on the student protests was still up when the February walkouts sprang up.

“I was like, ‘OK, this might be a good opportunity, then, to just kind of add a little update,’” he recalled.

So the library added a portion to the existing online display reflecting the recent anti-ICE student walkouts, in hopes of encouraging people to look at it and learn more about the history behind the local protests.

Another common theme Mikolay noted was that student organizing isn’t limited to college protests, although university activism perhaps gets more national attention.

The protests described in the display include several actions from high school students — including the recent walkouts in Aurora.

“I was noticing examples of professors protesting and high school students protesting, so that (the display) just kind of naturally developed and naturally changed to be more about that idea of it being not exclusive to college students,” Mikolay said. “It’s a phenomenon that’s been going on in the whole country since … the creation of the country. And, also in Illinois, it’s been a thing for a long time.”

As for Aurora’s place in this wider set of actions, Mayor John Laesch noted that he himself was part of past activism long before he was leading the city.

Laesch said his “first steps into the political arena” included participating in an immigration march in 2005, shortly before the student protest described in the library display.

But, in many ways, the issue has remained, according to Laesch. He said most politicians “don’t want to deal with divisive issues or take a stand,” which has led to the U.S. having “a broken immigration system.”

“If you think about it … things haven’t changed at the federal level at all,” Laesch said.

Now, with the recent protests going on, Laesch said his focus is on ensuring that local residents are able to speak out about the issues they’re concerned about, while making sure demonstrations remain peaceful.

“We’re living through contentious times,” Laesch said on Wednesday. “And those people who oppose what’s happening at (the) federal, state or local level are exercising their First Amendment rights to speak out, walk out, peaceably assemble.”

For now, the display will remain on the library’s website, but Mikolay noted that it will eventually get replaced by its next display, though he plans to keep the file around and potentially continue adding to it as more developments occur.

And he hopes that efforts like these on the part of the library can continue to help people learn more about what they read in the news every day.

“People don’t always turn to the library for breaking news or even to … fact-check stuff, because there are plenty of other resources out there that people can turn to,” Mikolay said. “But I feel like it’s our role as librarians to help people contextualize what they’re reading.”

And the way to do that, he thinks, is to “look backwards and look into the past.”

Still, it can be challenging to convince people that “you can’t find everything online,” he added.

“As much as it feels like all of the world’s information is easily accessible, a lot of it is still locked behind microfilm, for example,” Mikolay said, pointing to local newspaper archives the library has that aren’t digitized.

But he emphasized that the library wants to help the community access historical documents and contextualize what’s going on around them.

“If you do need to find anything that requires more than a Google search,” Mikolay said, “we’re here, we have all those resources available.”

mmorrow@chicagotribune.com

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/27/online-aurora-public-library-display-student-protests/ 

Por GRAHAM DUNBAR

NYON, Suiza (AP) — La de Bodø/Glimt es una historia de fútbol que emociona justo cuando el controvertido proyecto de la Superliga, motivado por el dinero, finalmente pereció este mes. El momento parece profundamente irónico.

En el sorteo de la Liga de Campeones el viernes, los posibles rivales del Manchester City en el cuadro de los octavos de final eran dos clubes que representan visiones radicalmente distintas del fútbol europeo.

Bodø/Glimt, el club sencillo y humilde de un pequeño pueblo pesquero noruego, o el Real Madrid, el aristócrata que propulsó la Superliga e intentar destruir la Liga de Campeones.

“Para el fútbol moderno creo que es importante que un club como el nuestro sea un actor más importante de esto”, dijo Frode Thomassen, director ejecutivo de Bodø/Glimt, a The Associated Press en la sede de la UEFA después de que su equipo quedara emparejado con el Sporting de Lisboa.

Al Manchester City le tocaron dos partidos en semanas consecutivas a mitad de semana contra el Real Madrid. Por quinta temporada seguida. Enfrentándose por 12ª y 13ª vez en la Liga de Campeones en poco más de seis años.

Este es el tipo de duelo habitual que el Madrid, el City y los otros 10 ilustres miembros de la Superliga querían cuando planearon su ruptura con la UEFA en abril de 2021.

La aventura de Bodø/Glimt

En abril de 2021, Bodø/Glimt no estaba ni cerca de ser invitado a la Superliga y ni siquiera había jugado en la Copa de Europa o la Liga de Campeones.

La Superliga se derrumbó en 48 horas en medio de una reacción adversa por parte de aficionados y legisladores, especialmente en Inglaterra.

Cinco años después, Bodø/Glimt es una de las revelaciones de la Liga de Campeones. Llevan cuatro victorias seguidas en cinco semanas contra adinerados fundadores de la Superliga: Manchester City, Atlético de Madrid e Inter de Milán (dos veces). Desde que ganó el martes en San Siro, los seguidores de Bodø/Glimt en Instagram se duplicaron hasta superar los 400.000.

“Ahora merecemos estar aquí”, afirmó Thomassen. “No siempre se trata de dinero, se trata de la gente y del tipo de esfuerzo que pones. De poder dar nuevos pasos cada año”.

Debut en la Liga de Campeones

El debut de Bodø/Glimt en la Liga de Campeones se produjo en julio de 2021, en la poco glamorosa primera ronda de la fase de clasificación. El inédito campeón de Noruega perdió 3-2 ante el Legia Varsovia en su diminuto estadio Aspmyra, y luego 2-0 en Polonia.

Fue el inicio de una mágica trayectoria europea. Bodø/Glimt pasó a las rondas de clasificación de la primera edición de la Conference League de Europa, y 18 partidos después perdió ante la Roma de José Mourinho en los cuartos de final.

En 2022 y en 2024, Bodø/Glimt cayó en la ronda de playoffs de la Liga de Campeones en agosto. La temporada pasada, el cambio a la Liga Europa terminó en semifinales contra Tottenham.

Bodø/Glimt dio con la tecla en agosto pasado. Otro título noruego llevó al equipo directamente a los playoffs de clasificación, donde despachó a Sturm Graz.

La élite lo esperaba tras un progreso constante bajo Thomassen y el entrenador Kjetil Knutsen, quienes se incorporaron a Bodø/Glimt en 2017, y un grupo leal de empleados.

¿Otro Leicester?

Thomassen se ríe de las comparaciones con el título del Leicester en la Liga Premier inglesa en 2016, tan cercano a un milagro como cualquiera en el deporte moderno.

“Leicester y esos clubes tenían una organización mucho más grande que la nuestra”, señaló, al recordar a su club hace nueve años. “Éramos apenas 40 personas empleadas en la empresa y eso incluía a los jugadores. Teníamos un presupuesto total de 4,2 millones de euros (5 millones de dólares)”.

“Hay mucha gente que ha estado en el camino con nosotros. Somos un grupo pequeño, pero hay mucho corazón y pasión por el juego y por el trabajo que hacen”, agregó.

Una familia

“Es lo mismo que una familia”, expresó Thomassen. “Para algunas personas un abrazo es solo un abrazo. Cuando ves a nuestros jugadores abrazarse, y se ven todos los días, es como una relación construida sobre el respeto y, de alguna manera, el amor”.

La ética de priorizar al equipo, con jugadores en su mayoría noruegos y daneses, cree él, ayudó al conjunto a crecer después de que “nos costó un poco” al inicio de la Liga de Campeones, sin victorias, con tres empates y tres derrotas hasta diciembre.

“A menudo vemos que el otro equipo tiene elementos individuales en su juego, algunos a un nivel muy, muy alto”, explicó Thomassen. “Nosotros somos más un equipo, un equipo sólido”.

El dinero sigue al éxito

La bolsa de premios de la UEFA empieza a acumularse: más de 26 millones de euros (30 millones de dólares) la temporada pasada, y ahora se acerca a un total del orden de los 61 millones de euros (72 millones de dólares) que el Club Brujas obtuvo la temporada pasada al alcanzar los octavos de final de la Liga de Campeones.

Vencer al Sporting significará un bono de 12,5 millones de euros (14,8 millones de dólares) de la UEFA por los cuartos de final contra el Arsenal o el Bayer Leverkusen.

“No siempre se trata de dinero, se trata de la gente y del tipo de esfuerzo que pones”, reiteró Thomassen. “Esa es una de nuestras ideas principales: mantener los pies en la tierra”.

Aun así, se está construyendo un nuevo estadio, el Arctic Arena, con capacidad para 10.000 espectadores, en las afueras de la ciudad.

“Para el fútbol es algo hermoso que un club como el nuestro pueda estar entre los últimos 16 clubes que quedan en la Liga de Campeones”, manifestó Thomassen.

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https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/27/el-club-cenicienta-bod-glimt-crece-en-la-champions-league-tras-el-rechazo-a-la-superliga/ 

After downtown hotel owners banded together to offer to tax themselves and raise money to boost tourism, aldermen advanced their plan Friday.

The new “Tourism Improvement District” backed by hotel, labor and business groups would allow dozens of large Chicago hotels to impose a new 1.5% tax on overnight stays to give Choose Chicago, the city’s tourism marketing organization, more money to promote the city.

The ordinance won approval from the City Council’s Finance Committee and could face a final full council vote next month.

“We don’t come to you today to ask you to find additional funding. We come to you today with a solution,” said Kristin Reynolds, president and CEO of Choose Chicago. “A solution that is driven by our hotel industry and provides a new privatized funding stream designed solely to attract visitors and create jobs.”

The tax would add the fee to overnight stays at hotels with over 100 rooms downtown, near McCormick Place, near the Illinois Medical District and in Hyde Park.

The money would be used solely to promote tourism by attracting events and conventions and advertising the city’s cultural riches. The plan will bring in $40 million, Reynolds said.

Choose Chicago’s current budget of around $33 million is far below the cities it competes with, like a $120 million budget in Orlando or another north of $200 million in Las Vegas, Reynolds said. Even after the influx of money, Chicago’s tourism budget would still be below that of many competitors, she said.

“Our competitors know very well that Chicago is underfunded, and they use it to their advantage, not only to attract the same conventions, events and visitors that we’re trying to attract to Chicago, but to lure away our legacy clients,” Reynolds said.

The change will touch every neighborhood as it brings more business to Chicago, said Ald. Jason Ervin, who sponsored the plan in the council.

Ald. Jason Ervin, 28th, speaks with Ald. Pat Dowell, 3rd, after a City Council meeting, Dec. 29, 2025, at Chicago City Hall. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)

“This is a necessary and vital component for Chicago to stay competitive in the convention market,” Ervin said. “The other smaller cities are starting to gain ground on us for the fact that they have the incentives and we do not.”

Ald. Brian Hopkins called the measure an “easy yes vote.”

“Anyone who has participated in the budget process for the past couple of years can’t help but notice how rare and uncommon it is for any sector of our Chicago economy to raise their hands and say, ‘Please tax me more,’” he said. “They know this is going to work. There is a direct connection to the public investment that we will make, to the benefit that we as a city will receive.”

But some supportive aldermen called for more clarity on how the money will be spent. Ald. Pat Dowell, the Finance Committee’s chair, said she felt the plan is “a little light on specifics” regarding spending.

Ald. David Moore, the lone “no” vote, questioned the need for a boost to the convention business and shared concerns that it could make “staycations” for Chicago residents staying at downtown hotels more expensive.

“I am concerned about how this impacts people who are living in this city that may want to go out and enjoy their city,” he said.

Spending would be approved by a committee made up of 11 hoteliers, with non-voting seats for a labor representative and a representative of the city, according to Michael Jacobsen, president and CEO of the Illinois Hotel and Lodging Association.

“They will decide an annual budget, and then every single expenditure from this fund,” he said. “We have to be nimble.”

Jacobsen said some spending focuses will be rebuilding Chicago’s reputation as a destination for international tourists, a hotspot for domestic visitors and recruiting business travel.

If approved, the tax would be approved for five years. A renewal would require more support from the council and hotels, Jacobsen said. Hotel owners can also vote to remove the tax if it does not deliver growth, he added.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/27/chicago-hotel-tax-industry-boost-tourism/ 

Top Nike Distributor Sounds Profit Alarm As BNP Says China Remains “Red Flag”

Tyler Durden
Fri, 02/27/2026 – 15:45

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/top-nike-distributor-sounds-profit-alarm-bnp-says-china-remains-red-flag 

Two Chicago Tribune journalists were recognized in the annual Associated Press Sports Editors contest as among the best in the country.

Julia Poe was named one of the nation’s 10 best beat writers for her Sky coverage last year. Among the entries submitted were her exclusive on star forward Angel Reese’s discontent amid the Sky’s second consecutive losing season, Courtney Vandersloot’s “heartbreaking” injury during the team’s historic first game at the United Center and the organization’s partnership with a cybersecurity company to monitor and curtail online harassment and abuse.

Poe, a USC graduate who came to the Tribune in November 2021, also covers the Bulls.

Armando L. Sanchez won top-10 honors in action photos for his shot of New York Mets first baseman Pete Alonso falling over the wall while trying to catch a foul ball during a game against the Chicago Cubs on Sept. 23, 2025, at Wrigley Field.

Mets first baseman Pete Alonso falls over the wall while attempting to catch a foul ball from Cubs catcher Carson Kelly during the fifth inning on Sept. 23, 2025, at Wrigley Field. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)

Sanchez has been a Tribune photojournalist since 2014, two years after graduating from Western Kentucky University.

The winning entries were submitted in APSE’s largest circulation category, competing with journalists from other top media outlets in the country. Contest judging took place this week in Las Vegas.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/27/chicago-tribune-apse-awards/ 

Merrillville Police are investigating a likely murder-suicide.

Officers were called at around 8:15 a.m. Feb. 27 to the 7600 block of Van Buren Street for a firearm assault, according to a department release. There, they found a man and woman dead inside the house, the release said.

A preliminary investigation shows that it was a domestic event and that there’s no further danger to the public, the release said. Merrillville Police Chief Kosta Nuses said the investigation is ongoing.

Anyone with information on this incident is asked to contact Merrillville Detective Van Rite at either (219) 769-3531, ext. 349, or avanrite@merrillville.in.gov.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/27/two-dead-in-suspected-murder-suicide-in-merrillville/ 

Trump: “Maybe We’ll Have A Friendly Takeover Of Cuba”

Tyler Durden
Fri, 02/27/2026 – 15:25

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-maybe-well-have-friendly-takeover-cuba 

Por SARAH RAZA

La secretaria de Justicia de Estados Unidos, Pam Bondi, anunció el viernes que otras 30 personas fueron acusadas formalmente por su presunta participación en una protesta realizada en una iglesia de Minnesota contra la aplicación de las leyes migratorias.

En una publicación en redes sociales, Bondi manifestó que 25 personas habían sido detenidas y que habría más arrestos en las siguientes horas de ese día.

“NO PUEDEN ATACAR UN LUGAR DE CULTO. Si lo hacen, no pueden esconderse de nosotros: los encontraremos, los arrestaremos y los procesaremos”, escribió Bondi en la publicación: “Este Departamento de Justicia DEFENDERÁ a los cristianos y a todos los estadounidenses de fe”.

Los detenidos tendrán una primera comparecencia ante el tribunal y un juez magistrado fijará las condiciones para su liberación.

Entre los arrestados figuran los periodistas independientes Don Lemon y Georgia Fort, y la destacada activista local Nekima Levy Armstrong, quien fue objeto de una foto manipulada publicada por la Casa Blanca en la que aparece llorando durante su arresto. Se han declarado inocentes de cargos por violación de derechos civiles.

En total, 39 personas han sido acusadas por la protesta en la iglesia, y todas enfrentan cargos por conspiración contra la libertad religiosa y por interferir con el derecho a la libertad religiosa.

Un grupo de manifestantes acudió a Cities Church, en St. Paul, Minnesota, el 18 de enero, después de enterarse de que uno de los pastores de la iglesia también trabaja como agente del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE, por sus siglas en inglés). La protesta provocó una rápida condena de funcionarios del gobierno de Trump y de líderes conservadores por interrumpir una ceremonia dominical.

La acusación formal sostiene que los “agitadores” entraron a la iglesia en un “ataque coordinado al estilo de una toma” y realizaron actos de intimidación y obstrucción.

“Los niños pequeños se preguntaban, como dijo un niño, si sus padres iban a morir”, se indica en la acusación.

Un abogado de la iglesia elogió al Departamento de Justicia por acusar a más personas.

“La Primera Enmienda no le da a nadie —sin importar su profesión, notoriedad o política— licencia para irrumpir en una iglesia e intimidar, amenazar y aterrorizar a familias y niños que rinden culto en su interior”, afirmó Doug Wardlow en un comunicado.

La acusación revisada incorpora nuevas imputaciones, en comparación con la original presentada en enero.

En ella se indica que dos personas “realizaron labores de reconocimiento” fuera de la iglesia un día antes de la protesta y grabaron su visita en video; una de ellas dijo: “Mi idea es poder cerrar todo este callejón aquí mismo”.

Según la acusación, el video fue enviado a Armstrong, a quien se acusa de ayudar a encabezar el esfuerzo, para que lo utilizara en la preparación de la protesta.

Armstrong se ha declarado inocente y expresó que ella y otros estaban siendo objeto de ataques por alzar la voz contra “la tiranía del gobierno de Trump”.

La protesta en la iglesia ocurrió durante un par de meses tensos para Minnesota, donde el gobierno de Trump envió miles de agentes federales para la Operación Metro Surge tras una serie de casos de fraude contra el gobierno en los que la mayoría de los acusados tenía raíces somalíes. En muchos casos, los agentes federales lanzaron gas lacrimógeno para el control de multitudes en enfrentamientos vecinales con activistas, y a menudo los detenían junto con inmigrantes.

El 7 de enero, un agente federal mató a tiros a Renee Good, una madre de 37 años, en el sur de Minneapolis. En otro tiroteo mortal, una semana después de la protesta en la iglesia, un agente federal mató al enfermero de 37 años Alex Pretti.

Se desataron manifestaciones en todo el país en respuesta, seguidas por un cambio en la dirigencia de la Operación Metro Surge y la posterior reducción gradual de la operación de control migratorio a mediados de febrero.

Desde entonces, las Ciudades Gemelas han lidiado con el impacto en las comunidades y en la economía local. La ciudad de Minneapolis dijo que sufrió un impacto de 203,1 millones de dólares debido a la operación, y que decenas de miles de residentes necesitan ayuda de emergencia.

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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/27/departamento-de-justicia-de-eeuu-acusa-a-30-personas-ms-por-protesta-en-iglesia-de-minnesota/