say, Thanks, Seth, I'm excited that you went for it, because usually my ideas are much more chaotic. Um, there was a couple of notes from the discussion that you had on Monday, where it was believed that three to four members of the press had been arrested by CPD on Tuesday, and we're still getting info that it seems possible that there's six, and we don't have all of their names, but you know, that's at least double what was reported out as of Tuesday night, echoing what everyone else was saying that there were a lot of conflicting orders, you know, CPD and the mayor and you know, everyone in Chicago made a lot of noise about how much training CPD had been doing for crowd control. They boasted these enormous numbers. They had cops out there with professional cameras photographing the police lines to sort of, you know, boast about their presence at these protests. And then when it came to actually, know. Knowing what to do it just like the the whole ass fell out of it, they didn't know how to handle press. There were a lot of conflicting things that we were told on, you know, on Monday, when protesters breached the two fences, there were a significant number of press between those fences, between part 578, and the DNC. And I saw Aaron like there was a photographer near me who asked him, I don't have CPD credentials, am I okay to document this? And Aaron said, Yeah, as long as you stay with the other press, you're acting as press. You know, that's fine. And he confirmed that again when I asked the theory being that if you are engaging in press activities, you are clearly not participating in the protest. And as long as you stay with press, it's fine. And then, after the fence had been breached, a number of press continued to hang around. Part 578, there were, you know, mainstream like news cameras setting up, doing stand ups to report back on the previous fence breaching and, you know, protesters getting pushed out and arrested. At one point, the press gaggle was so kind of, it was, it was kind of foreshadowing, but the press gaggle between the two fences was kind of stubborn about wanting to stay to make sure they could document whatever the police would do that they actually obstructed access for protesters who were trying to avoid getting arrested, which was a problem, and That's, you know, something to discuss another time, but press continued hanging out at the park, and CPD brought in a flood of cops, and then started doing the Move back, move back, move back. And it wasn't until they had arrested another three people who, you know just didn't want to move that they actually started announcing the park has been closed because the fence was breached. And I said to a white shirt, I think it was Brooks. I was like, You could have told us that from the beginning, because there were pressed with their tripods and their, you know, soap boxes and like they were trying to do their jobs, and they ended up getting partially stuck trying to get all their gear out of the way of this massive surge of cops. I saw another indie get stuck behind the line of cops, and then a US, like Secret Service cop, grabbed him by his shirt and, you know, threw him out of from behind the police line into the front of the police line to then get shoved. We were, you know, squeezed and couldn't move, and I was getting screamed at because I couldn't move, because there was a ton of people in front of me, tons of cops behind me, into my side and just saying, like you could have, you could have just announced that the park is closed and given us time to collect our belongings and leave, and instead, they chose not to do that. They chose this overwhelming show of force for things that it wasn't really necessary. There wasn't any sort of coherency behind it, so much as wanting to seem tough and trying to seem tough to press who are there to work is a losing battle. You end up having situations where on Thursday night, Ahern tried to direct the press to stay behind an arbitrary line, and there was a photographer next to me who said, is that an order or an ordinance? Because in order, we're not going to listen to that if it's a city ordinance directing press to keep a specific distance, that's something that we will take into account, right? And then the press, instead of listening to him, broke around that line, went around behind him, and then flooded the street to document an arrest of a protester. And then press just took the street, ended up pushing the CPD bikes back and pushing the police line away, and then the cops just left because it was mostly press. And on Tuesday night, when press were arrested, Ahern actually, like forcefully ripped the press credentials New York City press credentials of photographer Josh Pacheco off of their neck, ripping their hair. They told me that AHan did this, and said, you don't get to keep your your credentials because you're being detained. Those credentials, along with the CPD credentials of another member of the press, magically ended up at the lawyer's office for the members of the press that had been detained, and they were able to retrieve those and continue wearing them. Come Thursday night, CPD was taking photos of press people's CPD badges, and, you know, threatening to confiscate them, which was a little bit absurd, because the conflict the convention was over, so like it's, you're just basically threatening. To steal a souvenir at that point. There were other members of the press who had New York City credentials that CPD ripped off their neck, which they do not have the authority to do. There was a guy with a camera who when the police came through and formed that kettle on the sidewalk where they did those mass arrests on Tuesday, they were directing press to leave the area, and one person didn't have any credentials, but he was using a camera, and he was documenting. He was working as press, and CPD wouldn't let him pass, because the cop was like, Oh, he doesn't have credentials. And then another supervisor had to come over and allow him through. And this guy was like, terrified that he was going to get arrested while trying to do his job. Meanwhile, I was, you know, as soon as I saw that JP, Josh Pacheco had been arrested, I started yelling my head off with them, like, demanding answers as to why they're arresting press. And my understanding is that they flooded into this space and just started grabbing anyone at the exact same time that they were also trying to direct press to leave the area. So press started to move based on that order, and then they grabbed them as they were leaving, and then they charged them with disorderly conduct, which is, you know, just absurd. So you know, for all of this, this bluster that CPD and the mayor's office have made praising CPD about how well they handled everything they were not equipped to handle this press gaggle, and this is a typical press gaggle for New York City, but because of how they behaved, I think is what led to this sort of additional stubbornness on Thursday from the press of like, we're not Listening to you. We're going to do our jobs, and you are irrelevant like you, like you know, because they cross that boundary of arresting press and have been just behaving wildly incoherently through the whole week.