City-contracted security calls police on volunteers handing out food to migrants at Chicago YMCA
NELL SALZMAN AND LAURA RODRÍGUEZ PRESA
CHICAGO TRIBUNE UPDATED JUNE 17, 2023 3:37 PM
CHICAGO — The city is investigating after police were called Thursday night on volunteers serving food to asylum-seekers outside a temporary shelter at the YMCA in West Ridge.
The three volunteers said the shelter’s city-contracted security guards threatened and harassed them and told them to leave the premises before calling police as the volunteers passed out food to the migrants, who told them they’d only been served “bread and apples” inside the shelter.
“They have no warm clothing. People were shivering. They were ravenous,” said Laurie Hasbrook, one of the volunteers. TOP VIDEOS Cristina Pacione-Zayas, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s deputy chief of staff, told the Tribune on Friday there was an ongoing investigation into the incident, but couldn’t comment further.
The asylum-seeker shelters are manned day and night by Favorite Staffing, a contracted vendor that works to support management operations, according to a statement from the city.
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