Police: Flag-Chucking Lincoln Park Resident Among 52 Nabbed at Chicago Pride Parade

By Andy Ambrosius and Carrie Frillman

A Lincoln Park woman was among those arrested during Sunday's Chicago Pride Parade in next-door Lake View and police say she not only threw a flag at an officer, but scratched his face and tried to hit him.

Police arrested at total of 52 people during the event, Redeye reports, which is more than double those arrested following the Chicago Blackhawks win.

The Pride Parade blew through Lake View and parts of Uptown, bringing more than a million bystanders to the streets. 

It’s unclear how many people rallied after the Hawks victory, but the main celebration packed Clark Street both Near Wrigley Field and in Lincoln Park.

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Police made 23 arrests and handed out 21 additional tickets during the rowdy Wrigley celebration and dozens of storefront windows were shattered in Lincoln Park. 

Arrests were mostly made for disorderly and reckless conduct, and the tickets were issued for nonviolent crimes.

All but two of the arrests made at the Pride Parade were misdemeanors, Redeye writes, with a more serious offense being the arrest of Camile Campbell, 20, of Lincoln Park.

Campbell reportedly walked into an area blocked off by police, threw a 2-foot long flag at an officer’s face and proceeded to strike the cop and scratch his face, Redeye reports. She was charged with aggravated battery to a police officer and was held on $50,000 bail.

The details behind the remaining misdemeanors remained a mystery Wednesday, but drinking near the parade may not have contributed to the 52 arrests.

This is the first year Chicago has enforced a strict new ordinance regarding drinking at the parade. However, Sgt. Jason Clark of the 19th Chicago Police District said officers don’t take offenders to the station for those violations.

“For drinking on the public way, we issue tickets,” Clark said when interviewed about the new ordinance. “Therefore officers aren’t making physical arrests. When a person doesn’t have a valid ID or is unwilling to sign the (ticket), then a physical arrest is made.”