we love you. we want to embrace you. we want to do whatever we got to do to bring you out of a life of crime, out of the streets. chicago, we love you. all of the people in the streets, we love you, and we trying our best out here to make sure that the community, our city is safe for everybody. >> reporter: fantastic. thank you so much. as you can see, that's father flago right there. he is part of making sure this march happens and the communication with the police department. as we are walking towards this exit right now, not sure how it is going to go as we get to this highway exit in terms of the conversation, but they've been having over and over. they said they wanted to make sure that the protesters could continue to protest but at the same time, like you can see, they're stopping a man trying to get on with the motorcycle. if that is part of the conversation, here is the front part of that protest as we speak now, trying to squeeze towards the highway. you can see all of this sort of unfolding agency we speak, making our way down toward the highway. >> okay. ryan, can you hear me? >> reporter: i can. go ahead. >> yes. if you could put the mike close