i called on the man about town, mikey oquendo. [upbeat music] mikey o grew up here and has everyone on speed dial. nobody knows this neighborhood better than him. - we re approaching la division, division street in chicago, which is central to the humboldt park community. puerto ricans know it as la division. - la division. - every puerto rican in chicago has a division street story because there is a little bit of everything, right? you ve got el mercado, the wepa market. it s an opportunity for young entrepreneurship. then you ve got urbantheater company. - right. - to get folks here an opportunity to experience theater. - but humboldt park wasn t always this way. the chicago machine structure affected all latinx communities, and it took generations of puerto ricans demanding equality to make change. - this was a very, very segregated city. we couldn t go in certain areas where, you know, it was clear that puerto ricans were not welcome. the injustices that were happening in this com
[upbeat music] mikey o grew up here and has everyone on speed dial. nobody knows this neighborhood better than him. - we re approaching la division, division street in chicago, which is central to the humboldt park community. puerto ricans know it as la division. - la division. - every puerto rican in chicago has a division street story because there is a little bit of everything, right? you ve got el mercado, the wepa market. it s an opportunity for young entrepreneurship. then you ve got urbantheater company. - right. - to get folks here an opportunity to experience theater. - but humboldt park wasn t always this way. the chicago machine structure affected all latinx communities, and it took generations of puerto ricans demanding equality to make change. - this was a very, very segregated city. we couldn t go in certain areas where, you know, it was clear that puerto ricans were not welcome. the injustices that were happening in this community to the people, the police brutality,
president handling vladimir putin a list of what you can t do. there s a pattern happening because of the weakness we re seeing. you highlighted it just there. even in our response to this, we are weak. kirby, within hours of this happening, out on cnn morning show, it s very, very deep there. milley emphasizing that. it s very deep there. why are we telling the russians this as they have a warship in the area and saying we don t even have a ship there. why are we broadcasting strength? that s not something biden has the ability to do. last hour, congressman waltz from your home state of florida was on with me. that s how i learned why we removed the warships. it was appeasing putin so maybe he wouldn t do more than a minor incursion. we know how ukraine worked out. we took our warships out. we couldn t go back in there now if we wanted to.
that we couldn t go back up into the line, or coming into the voters. we were being intimidated by law enforcement, even after this woman had pulled a gun. after she pulled her gun, we reported it to the police, and the only thing that we ever got was a community service opportunity, taking up that report. it is these two years, they ve been kind of hurtful for a lot of people who just wanted to do good. i can imagine. cliff, georgia public broadcasting reported that during the boards meeting in macon, webster who is white, offered often combative explanations for her suspicions of black voters matter, and why she brought an antique pistol with her to cast a ballot.
a few people that began to get upset about miss webster, as you mentioned. she was one of the ones that took water, and they began to engage in the conversation about what black voters matter was about. is that the same thing is black lives matter? they begin to say all of these salacious things, and at some point, obviously begin to get agitated. this is in a full parking lot, i m saying there were 500 people waiting in line, doing the polls, casting their votes. they accused me of assaulting her at one point. it just all went on from there, and they didn t stop there. they had the local officials actually having sheriff deputies come down, and just kind of form some kind of line across some of us to tell us that we couldn t go back up into the line, or coming into