“In Evanston, the people who are organizing and carrying this movement are young people, and I want to make that super clear,” Parisien said. EFBL has also met with City Council, organized protests and redistributed donations through a mutual aid fund.

Through these organizations, Parisien is leading equity workshops to discuss antiracism, at her school and at other Evanston schools.

Since the police killing of George Floyd last spring, ETHS senior Mika Parisien has been working as a board member of both Students Organized Against Racism and Evanston Fight for Black Lives. Police say they will have extra patrols around Evanston beaches this weekend.Evanston Township High School students are continuing to educate the Evanston community and press on racial equity in the city, even as they say the momentum behind last summer’s wave of antiracism action has fizzled. Anyone with information on the case is asked to call Evanston police detectives at 84 or text information to 274637, starting the message with EPDTIP. The other victim was treated and released. One of the 15-year-olds remains hospitalized in critical condition. The park area around the shooting scene was reopened for use late this morning. In a news release issued Thursday afternoon, Evanston police said the shooting occurred after two small groups of people who knew each other got into a verbal altercation outside the entry to Clark Street Beach and at least one person from one of the groups fired a handgun, striking members of the other group, before running to a vehicle and fleeing the scene.Ī TV news van parked at the beach was the only indication on the lakefront of Wednesday night’s shooting by Thursday afternoon. Evanston Police say the three victims were from Skokie.

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