#Bovino carries out #Halloween #arrests. 'They showed up here to terrorize people,' alder says
The agents swept through the #Chicago Albany Park & Edison Park neighborhoods, & suburban #Evanston, #Skokie & #Niles Friday morning & afternoon after [dog killer] #DHS Secy #KristiNoem said *enforcement* [terrorist] operations would continue on Halloween despite #Illinois Gov #JBPritzker asking they pause for the holiday.
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2 detained, pepper balls fired by federal agents in Albany Park — 'It happens so fast'
Immigration agents tackled one man and dragged another from a vehicle to make the arrests in the Northwest Side neighborhood.Chicago Sun-Times
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •US #BorderPatrol Commander-at-large Gregory #Bovino led a caravan of at least a dozen agents across #Chicago suburbs including Evanston, Skokie & Niles, & Edison Park neighborhood.
Sun-Times journalists followed the caravan for at least an hour & witnessed 4 arrests—2 in Albany Park & 2 others in Edison Park & Niles.
Christopher Klim, a #US #citizen from #Poland, was seen handcuffed & later released ~2PM as he remodeled a home in the 7400 block of North Oconto Ave.
#Trump #law #immigration
Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •His co-worker, who Klim said also is a #US #citizen from #Poland, was arrested & taken away in the caravan of SUVs.
“I’m not [a] criminal. I’m just working,” Klim, 59, said shortly after he was released & the federal agents had driven away.
“I’m so stressed…I’m worried,” Klim said of his co-worker. “He’s got his car. He lives not so far from here, but I don’t know even [his] last name & I don’t have a phone number to his wife.”
#Trump #law #Chicago #immigration #CivilRights #fascism #Gestapo
Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •About 5 neighbors stood nearby, shouting at the agents [#FreeSpeech] who gave verbal warnings they would deploy #TearGas. They never did.
Klim & the other man had been working on the house for a couple weeks, acc/to Brendan Ek, a neighbor across the street. “It seemed a little ridiculous, honestly. Big waste of #taxpayers’ money, if you ask me,” Ek, 30, said.
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •About 15 mins before that incident, #Bovino’s caravan stopped in the H Mart grocery store parking lot in Niles & detained another man who was just walking through the lot.
Friday’s arrests began around 9:30AM in the Albany Park neighborhood, when agents tackled a man to the pavement in the 3200 block of West Lawrence Ave after they accused him of assaulting one of them [no one including CST journos witnessed the alleged assault].
#Trump #law #Chicago #immigration #CivilRights #fascism #Gestapo
Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •A crowd gathered & shouted, “Let them go,” at the agents. Agents ripped another man from his car & detained him after other community members tried to put themselves in front of him.
“It’s actually horrifying,” said a friend of one of the men detained, who did not want to be identified. Minutes earlier, the person had just seen the man standing there.
“It happens so fast. You prepare, but then you don’t know what to do,” the person said.
#Trump #law #Chicago #immigration #CivilRights #fascism
Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •A reporter spotted one agent without a #BodyCamera. Another agent used a GoPro camera in addition to a body camera. Some agents had numbered identifiers on patches on their uniforms. Others had identifying numbers written on tape.
The Sun-Times reported Friday that several federal #immigration agents have not worn identifying information, against a judge’s order.
#Trump #law #Chicago #judiciary #Constitution #CivilRights #fascism #Tyranny #MilitaryState #Gestapo
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IDs are mismatched, illegible or still missing 3 weeks after judge’s order to immigration officers
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in reply to Nonilex • • •Agents issued one warning about #TearGas but did not deploy it. They fired #PepperBalls instead toward #demonstrators before #Chicago police arrived & cleared the roadway, allowing the vehicles with agents & detainees to leave.
Ald. Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez (33rd) was holding a staff meeting in her ward office around the corner when she heard whistles & ran out the door.
#Trump #law #immigration #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #PoliceBrutality #fascism #MilitaryState #Gestapo
Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •Rodriguez-Sanchez said she saw a man being detained, & anticipating the use of #ChemicalAgents, immediately ran to nearby Hibbard Elementary School to make sure #children were inside.
She came back to the scene, & said she was at one point shoved by federal agents as she tried to reach the man who had been pulled out of his vehicle.
“They showed up here to terrorize people, & they got a response from the community. People did everything they could. I’m just so heartbroken,” she added….
#law
Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •More pepper spray was deployed in #Evanston in the afternoon, acc/to the #DHS spox & Evanston police.
A driver crashed into a #BorderPatrol vehicle near Oakton St & Asbury Ave, drawing a large crowd to the area who shouted at the agents, some of whom allegedly spit on them, acc/to DHS. 3 #US #citizens in the crowd of #protesters were arrested as agents deployed pepper spray to disperse the crowd.
#Trump #law #Chicago #immigration #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #fascism #Gestapo
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