LOGAN SQUARE — A Logan Square resident who is planning a vigil in the neighborhood Monday night said the latest high profile police shootings of black and brown men pushed her over the edge into activism.
The vigil, which is set for Monday, July 11, at the Eagle Monument in Logan Square, is not an anti-police rally, rather a chance for the community to come together and say no more, according to Brittany Vargas Dragic, the organizer.
"I just had gotten so tired of being a Facebook warrior," 26-year-old Vargas Dragic said.
So for the first time, she decided she was going to be the one to organize her friends and neighbors to come together and speak out.
Monday night's vigil will start at 8 p.m. and is in honor of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile and Pedro Erik Villanueva.
"A lot of people my age have been intimidated by the idea of getting out there, of either getting shut down by police or other friends and being intimidated," she said. "The things that have been happening in the past two years in Black Lives Matter a lot of my friends have been like it's time. We can’t stand by any more. It's time to be loud and start doing something.”
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