TopspinOpponents of a police academy planned for Chicago's West Side again took their complaints directly to Mayor Rahm Emanuel this week by disrupting one of his appearances. Protesters posted a short video on Twitter on Wednesday of two women standing in front of the mayor during his speech at an annual iftar dinner to mark Ramadan at the Chicago Cultural Center, who shouted, "No cop academy!" and "Free Palestine!" In the video, Emanuel attempts to defuse the situation, saying, "Don't worry" and "No, no," as security approaches the women. He then tells the two he'll talk to them about their concerns if they let him finish his remarks. But the women start chanting while holding a banner that reads, "From Gaza to Garfield Park Invest in Education not Occupation," and get escorted from the room by guards, the video shows. The incident comes after Emanuel was confronted earlier this year by opponents of the proposed $95 million police academy while he was out of state speaking to students at the University of Michigan, the University of California at Los Angeles and Harvard University. The #NoCopAcademy activists filed a lawsuit last week alleging the City Council Budget Committee violated state open meeting rules by approving a plan to allow the city to use money from a land sale to help pay for the police and fire training facility in West Garfield Park without first allowing public comment. A Cook County judge refused to grant them a temporary restraining order to block a vote on the ordinance by the full City Council last Friday, and the council passed the measure 39-2 at a meeting that was packed with chanting protesters as well as supporters of the academy project. Opponents of the academy say the money instead should be spent on programs they say will directly benefit residents, such as job training, education and mental health services. (John Byrne) What's on tap*Mayor Emanuel had no public events scheduled. *Gov. Bruce Rauner is attending a ribbon-cutting in Macomb. Later, Rauner is scheduled to appear at a vineyard in New Berlin to uncork an Illinois Bicentennial Wine. *U.S. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and congressional candidate Jesus "Chuy" Garcia are scheduled to take part in a roundtable discussion on infrastructure Friday in Chicago. From the notebook*White Sox chairman among Emanuel donors: Mayor Emanuel's re-election campaign took in $890,000 this week, records show. Jerry Reinsdorf, the Bulls and White Sox chairman, was among the donors and gave $30,000 to Emanuel's campaign, records show. 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