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Cool Zone Media.

Welcome to It Could Happen here, a podcast where the It is the authoritarian takeover of the city of Chicago.

I have your host, Mia Wong, and today is an episode that

was significantly delayed by the fact

that our guests got shot in the face by riot

munitions while attempting to cover an

anti-ice protest at an ice facility, and then

her co-worker was fucking

grabbed by the feds the next day,

which she was also still

out at for reasons that are

semi incomprehensible to me, because again, she was just shot in the face.

This is, this is Raven, a journalist with the independent outlet Unravelled, which really, truly

is doing a lot of incredible work on the incredible proliferation of ice raids around Chicago.

Raven, welcome to the show.

Oh, boy.

Oh, boy is right.

Thanks for that intro.

Yeah, we're in the shit right now.

We're in it. Yeah. I guess I want to immediately start this with, you are mostly, you're basically okay from my understanding from getting shot in the

face of the right ammunition like a week ago. I am, I am basically okay. I have, like, some swelling still in my jaw. I'm going to the doctor. We'll see, like, if there's any soft tissue, like, lingering effects later on down the line. But nothing's broken.

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