No More Excuses (UPDATES!)

Even the weather is cooperating:

• Thursday... Cloudy. Slight chance of rain in the morning...then rain likely in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 40s. Northeast winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.

Looks like protest time will be decent enough for marching. We will try to update as possible. Anyone taking pictures, e-mail them to us and we'll post the good ones.

Good luck and we'll see you there.

UPDATE: We're going to try something never before attempted in the history of SCC - updates from the scene. Actually, we tried it once, but it was a crime scene, it was busy, it was impossible. This might not be. The only trouble is, we can't really check e-mail or post pics live. Our uniform allowance we mean salary economic reality doesn't allow us to afford a really snazzy phone. Anyway, we're headed over to the 001 parking lot, then a free CTA ride. Good thing we've got that parking permit so Sergeant Deputy doesn't tow the car.

UPDATE: Talk from the scene, word is the 008 District bus had to go back for seconds, there were so many people.

UPDATE: Talk from the scene, 016 reports almost 100 people at Habetler Bowl when the bus arrived.

UPDATE: The picket line reaches reaches all the way around City Hall. Laugh that one off Shortshanks. A number of coppers are saying that Goudie's hit job on behalf of the mayor was the last straw. Thanks Chuck!

UPDATE: WBBM is saying "thousands" of police. Seeing as how the Police Department always overestimates crowd sizes for special events and the media underestimates if the mayor tells them to, we're comfortable saying the crowd is in excess of 2,000. Anyone from FOP doing a head count?

UPDATE: Live Pic!

Send what you got. We'll get to what we can.

UPDATE: More pics:Off to Daley Plaza - the crowd is so big it's moving in fits and spurts.

UPDATE: Channel 7 says "a few hundred"

Evidently, Channel 7 is full of shit again, from Goudie on down.