US Dist Judge Georgia Alexakis heard testimony 2 eks ago about what happened after the Oct 4 incident in Brighton Park, which led to a standoff between protesters and federal agents who deployed #PepperSpray balls & #TearGas into the crowd.

Solicitor General John Sauer has also pointed to it while arguing #SCOTUS should let #Trump deploy #NationalGuard troops to #Chicago [these Trump attys🙄].

#law #immigration #judiciary #DueProcess #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #Tyranny #ICE #CBP

The #7thCircuit Court of Appeals granted the #Trump admin’s emergency request to pause the order, which required federal #immigration agents to give warnings before deploying #TearGas & other #weapons. The order had also barred agents from arresting or dispersing #journalists & required them to wear #BodyCameras & clear #identification.

#law #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality

WTAF?

US appeals court halts order limiting #immigration agents' response to #Chicago #protests

A US court on Wednesday paused a judge’s order that restricted when federal immigration agents can use #TearGas & other anti-riot weapons on Chicago area #residents, #journalists & #clergy members protesting the #Trump admin’s immigration crackdown in the city.

#law #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality
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#Chicago locals take on #ICE block-by-block

The #immigration agents' #TearGas #grenades clinked & then exploded against the concrete, shrouding the block in plumes of white gas. The dozen or so residents at the scene only screamed louder.
“We don't want you here,”yelled Rae Lindenberg. The 32-yr-old, who works in marketing, ran out of her apartment when she heard the shrill sound of whistles. "Get out of our neighborhood!"

#Trump #law #Constitution #CivilRights #fascism
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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

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.

#Trump #law #Chicago #immigration #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #fascism #Tyranny #MilitaryState #Gestapo

In #Chicago, residents & local journalists have captured footage showing clouds of #TearGas drifting toward #homes, #storefronts & #schools. Some residents said the tear gas has aggravated their #asthma. Others said they’ve experienced severe emotional distress [#trauma].

#Trump #law #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #HumanRights #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #PoliceBrutality #fascism #Tyranny #MilitaryState #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #WhiteSupremacy

The use of #TearGas has persisted in recent days despite a #CourtOrder forbidding officers from using #ChemicalAgents against #demonstrators & #journalists unless they pose a safety threat. Last week, Gregory #Bovino, the #BorderPatrol official leading the #Chicago operation, was videotaped throwing a tear-gas canister into a crowd. In another incident, #immigration officers deployed tear gas as #families were walking to a Halloween parade.

#Trump #law #CivilRights #HumanRights #PoliceBrutality

Since then, federal officers have thrown #ChemicalAgents out of vehicles on city streets, creating a hazard for motorists. They have thrown #TearGas canisters near stores & #schools, exposing #children, #pregnant women & #older people to the noxious gas. And on numerous occasions federal officers have fired pepper balls directly at protesters—in one case, striking a pastor in the head.

#Trump #law #Chicago #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #HumanRights #PoliceBrutality #fascism

Federal #immigration officers are using chemical irritants to *disperse* #protesters in ways that violate #US policing norms & are testing the boundaries of #UseOfForce #laws, video footage from #Chicago shows, in some cases [intentionally] hitting #demonstrators directly with the munitions.

#CBP & #ICE officers have deployed #TearGas in cities around the country, but its use has been especially prevalent in Chicago, where the #Trump admin launched Operation Midway Blitz in Sept….

#law

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#ICE & #BorderPatrol’s use of #TearGas injures, sickens & *tests* [breaks] the #law

Federal #immigration agents say chemical agents are needed to disperse *violent* [people exercising their right to #FreeSpeech] protesters. But videos show officers directly firing at people in aggressive & “unorthodox” ways.

#Trump #Chicago #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #PoliceBrutality #fascism #MafiaState #MilitaryState #WhiteSupremacy
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Illinois: ICE and Border Patrol Out of Control

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"Bovino casually violated a court order. That is contemptuous, in the moral if not legal sense of the word.

So yesterday, Judge Ellis haled Bovino into federal court, and grilled him about this scene, about the tactics he and his agents are using, and about the Trump administration’s respect for court orders."

#Bovino #BorderPatrol #Trump #fascism #Chicago #teargas #resist #fightback #fightfascism ✊

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Contempt

Under Trump, federal law enforcement scorns the courts

^{Terry Moran (Real Patriotism with Terry Moran)}

Suddenly, #TearGas canisters flew from the window of the SUV.

The cloud of gas rose, first white, then green, & the street exploded into pandemonium. Some people ran. Others shouted at agents to leave. Sirens screamed toward them. Parents blew through stop signs & drove on curbs to reach their #children.

#law #Chicago #Trump #immigration #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState

Parents, teachers & caregivers have been grappling ever since with how to explain to children what they’d seen: how much to tell them so they know enough to stay safe, but not too much to rob them of their childhood. A toddler shouldn’t know what a #TearGas canister is, Kucich said.

“I don’t know how to explain this to my kids.”

#law #Chicago #Trump #immigration #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #MilitaryState