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Vaccine protest fizzles: Chicago police union's call for 1,000 officers to attend receives lackluster response
John Catanzara, the firebrand president of the Chicago police union, called for a thousand officers to show up at Chicago Police Department headquarters Tuesday morning, but only a few dozen actually appeared and some were not cops.
CHICAGO - Chicago Fraternal Order of Police Union president John Catanzara has COVID.
Catanzara talked about testing positive in a YouTube video posted on the union's page on January 1.
"Yours truly with the vaccination got COVID," he said. "Came down with COVID Thursday night apparently. Friday morning after testing negative in the morning I tested positive like 20 hours later. This vaccine is not a vaccine. It is a COVID treatment at best. Far too many people are getting the virus for it to be called a vaccine. That needs to stop."
Catanzara said his symptoms have not been severe.
"Mine were pretty mild, they're already subsiding. Hopefully I'll be ready to go Tuesday for the closing of the arbitration," he said.
Catanzara has led the police union in a battle against the City of Chicago's vaccine mandate.
Five Chicago police officers have died of COVID.
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