Biography
Yonte Harris was arrested during protests against the NATO summit in Chicago on May 20, 2012. Police alleged that Harris grabbed an officer’s legs during a confrontation and pushed the officer’s bicycle into the officer’s chest. Harris was charged with aggravated battery to a police officer and ordered held on $200,000 bail. Contemporary prisoner-support reports continued to list him in Cook County Jail after the summit; the available sources do not establish his exact release date or the final disposition of the charge.
Documented release review October 13, 2026: The original Nuclear Resister issue 167, page 3, rendered and visually inspected, individually lists Yonte Harris as recently released. The page's September 3, 2012 footer establishes release by that reporting date, not on that date. His missing endpoint is therefore recorded only as 2012, after the documented May arrest. No exact day or duration is inferred from the newsletter, a different defendant's bond date or a generalized headline about freed protesters. Exact discharge, final disposition and an individually identified portrait remain unverified.
