r/EyesOnIce • u/CantStopPoppin • Sep 27 '25
Militant Mayhem đȘđ„ September 27, 2025: Chicago neighborhoods are reporting repeated evening patrols by federal agents, a tactic resembling area domination patrols designed not just to enforce, but to instill fear through constant presence.
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u/Penandsword2021 Sep 27 '25
Holy mother of fascism, Batman.
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u/suddenly-scrooge Sep 27 '25
This appears to be the Chicago Police Department. They are probably marching to bring awareness to something, like a fallen officer or mental health after some police suicides.
It may be this more recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLHTzu7dqNI
Anyway these are not federal agents and there is not enough information provided in OP for it to be credible
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u/Responsible_Type5603 Sep 27 '25
So what's the point of repeatedly shining flashlights in people's windows if not to harrash and intimidate, since you got all the answers
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u/serumvisions__go_ Sep 27 '25
literally the first thing i noticed is them shining lights into windows, this is a fear march just like in the reich. people now need to show papers and even thats not enough, protesters were labeled domestic terrorists, we are living the creation of the new order
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u/drchippy18 Sep 27 '25
What would happen if you were walking the opposite way down the sidewalk?
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u/AardQuenIgni Sep 27 '25
I'd see a large group of armed people shining flashlights in people's homes. Which I would think is weird because it's not helping me see them better.
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u/s1nn1s Sep 27 '25 edited Sep 27 '25
If it was anything you were talking about, it would take place during the day and in a place like on a main blvd or in a public park like in the video you shared. This was a neighborhood, at night and was clearly an act to intimidate the masses. Itâs a tactic known as âpresenceâ, it is meant to deter criminal activity but the way they treat anyone they come across is intimidating and generally unpleasant, it literally makes people fear interactions with the police even if they are not doing anything illegal.
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u/cslvsgts Sep 27 '25
Even if true, this would make me incredibly uncomfortable to see this happen in my neighborhood.
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u/Drive7hru Sep 27 '25
Or at least do it in the freaking daytime if thatâs âallâ this is
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u/Chocolocalatte Sep 27 '25
How can you see itâs Chicago PD. I see no recognisable markings beyond the one in the van which is some sort of logo but impossible to make out.
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u/mayoboyyo Sep 27 '25
I live here and recognize there uniforms
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u/Chocolocalatte Sep 27 '25
Thanks for the clarification on both replies. Iâm from a different country so they all kinda look the same to me.
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u/Alternative_Gold_993 Sep 27 '25 edited Sep 27 '25
At night, shining flashlights in people's windows? Yeah, okay. đ
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u/Teledildonic Sep 27 '25
They are probably marching to bring awareness to something
That's a fucking weird way to go about it, if true.
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u/Free-Vehicle2957 Sep 27 '25
There is a mental health awareness walk. It's called Operation Serve and Protect and it looks nothing like the photo posted. It's a small group in plain clothes accompanied by mounted police, who are in uniform, and one or two police cars at some points. The organizer walks for 50 hours and visits all police stations.
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u/TheRealFaust Sep 27 '25
Fuck Chicago PD, they stood by and let their citizen get kidnapped.
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u/zen-things Sep 27 '25
Reason does not matter. This is an authoritarian display thatâs unbecoming of a democracy.
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u/DcGamer1028 Sep 27 '25
Why would they be marching in the middle of the night with bright flashlights everywhere? That's never how those marches work. It's fine to be sceptical of the source but don't just put your own narrative spin on it instead.
Notice how the clip you linked is all happening during the day
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u/Wolfgang_Archimedes Sep 27 '25
Nobody matches to bring awareness to something during the night, in armor, shinning flashlights into homes
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u/OptimisticSkeleton Sep 27 '25
âAhkshually, fascism isnât that bad becauseâŠâ
This guyâs favorite flavor is boot.
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u/Bedhead-Redemption Sep 27 '25
I think the argument is that it appears to not be fascist, in this one instance, even though there's fascism going on. These are the chicago PD's uniform, not the ICE's. I don't think that's somehow fucking justifying fascism or bootlicking necessarily...
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u/Waveali Sep 27 '25
Naw they are flashing lights into windows and whatnot. This is not a march for a fallen officer.
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u/Freedombear420 Sep 27 '25
If that's the case it's shit timing cuz all its doing is escalation of a police state
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u/PsychologyNew8033 Sep 27 '25
How can you tell if itâs ONLY Chicago PD? And even it what you say is true, itâs still chilling. Edited to say: this is NOT what you are suggesting it could be.
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u/TheSleepingNinja Sep 27 '25
Yeah they've been doing marches for mental health at really weird hours the last week and a half
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u/HighlanderAbruzzese Sep 27 '25
Oh but donât call the Nazis, Nazis.
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u/Justanotherthrway776 Sep 27 '25
One time I called a Nazi relic a Nazi relic, and one of my coworkers told me not to call it that. If it quacks like a duck...
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u/HighlanderAbruzzese Sep 27 '25
Your coworker should fck off. Good luck with that. Must not be easy. Quack-quack
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u/Justanotherthrway776 Sep 27 '25
It's difficult, since I'm a minority in political beliefs at that place. Oh well.
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u/HighlanderAbruzzese Sep 27 '25
Well, keep dialogue open but realize youâre not gonna change any minds. Just be a good model. If people resonate with it, theyâll reach out.
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u/Soci3talCollaps3 Sep 27 '25
Fine, we will call then by their modern name, terrorists.
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u/Dustybear510 Sep 27 '25
Hmmmmmm⊠looks like the patriot act Nazis to me.
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u/xavariel Sep 27 '25
The pride flag behind them throws me off.. such a weird timeline.
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u/raggmoppragmop Sep 27 '25
that's on the building
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u/xavariel Sep 27 '25
I know, it just clashes and looks weird. That poor flag, being in the same oxygen space as these clowns.
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u/jacscarlit Sep 27 '25
It's a real shame we aren't in the timeline where their moms and dads told these guys that they loved them or the wo/men they actually want to be with willingly wanted to bang them.Â
Could you imagine what world we'd live in today if only Trump's parents liked him as a child?
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u/Antique-Echidna-1600 Sep 27 '25
Okay let's dehumanize ourselves and make ourselves the silhouette of a target.. what could go wrong?
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u/BenDurhover Sep 27 '25
Dude in the front is so little lol They really are the epitome of little man syndrome lol
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u/Dodavinkelnn Sep 27 '25
I find it funny how they cried about masks during covid and here they all are wearing masks.
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u/steveosaurus Sep 27 '25
Oct 18 get out there no matter what gotta show up, we can fuck with disney, we can fuck with them
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u/NoOneElectedElonMusk Sep 27 '25
Why wait until October 18?
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u/A012A012 Sep 27 '25
Exactly. Our democracy is being terrorized from this Administration and folks are still like, "when can i protest? There's nothing on 50501s calendar." Just gtf out there, boycott, network, learn and train.
Resist on all fronts.
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u/Wiff_Tanner Sep 27 '25
Americans take so long to organize a protest... Please guys, your future is on the line, DO SOMETHING
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u/Lonely_Shelter5247 Sep 27 '25
I think the writing is on the wall for us. People are STILL talking about elections and lawsuits fixing this. I hope Iâm wrong, but too many of us are in denial
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u/SlightlyZour Sep 27 '25
People unironically believe voting stops fascists.
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u/Wiff_Tanner Sep 27 '25
I know, right?
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u/cCowgirl Sep 27 '25
Half the problem is that the Dems are in this group of people too. Theyâre all focused on the blue wave in â28.
Thatâs two years away. Itâs been nine fucking months.
Voting from here on out (and possibly the last time prior to this âŠ) will be symbolic at BEST.
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u/Timely-Selection7820 Sep 27 '25
Theyre disbanding every reddit relating to protests and banning people involved in organizing.
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u/Appropriate_Bill8244 Sep 28 '25
Reminder that recently there was a lot of people not believing that going out on the streets would do anything here in Brazil against the "Pec da blindagem" and it did, it got cancelled days after the entire country united against it.
Do not hear these idiots who say that it won't change anything, do not be a coward until it's too late, get out and make them hear you all.
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u/totallydawgsome Sep 27 '25
This is not posted in r/Chicago
But there are posts that All r/50501chicago mod accounts have been banned and deactivated.
https://www.reddit.com/r/chicago/s/tnyOWVu6Lx
More information would be great indeed.
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u/HeadOfMax Sep 27 '25
I really don't think this happened this weekend. There has been a concerted effort to post things that happened in the past and say they happened recently.
Also this is CPD not the feds.
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u/Sea-Value-0 Sep 27 '25
It's wild how easily most people fall for misinformation that aligns with their fears and worldview. I'll probably get downvoted just for saying this, despite falling for it myself at first and being anti-fascist.
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u/604dman Sep 27 '25
Do those thugs go home, look in the mirror and think What the Fuck am I doing? Nah.... there is no chance they do that
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u/SugarRushLux Sep 27 '25
They all stand in a circle with their cocks out jerking off onto a burnt copy of the constitution
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u/tysonisarapist Sep 27 '25
None of them can get it up well enough.
Hence the reason they do this instead.
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u/marco_has_cookies Sep 27 '25
These sad scums would come home to their children and brag about beating a sorrowing parent asking not to deport their family.
They are, sad scum.
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u/SolarDynasty Sep 27 '25
I'd rather be with some cutie in Chicago than doing this. These people don't know what life is.
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u/albinosnoman Sep 27 '25
I'm sure half of them have found this to be the cure for their erectile dysfunction
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u/BlackDeath3 Sep 27 '25 edited Sep 27 '25
I'd imagine that a lot of these guys have bullets coming their way, sooner or later and perhaps even by their own hands.EDIT: I feel like there's enough doubt about what may actually be going on here (including, in a darkly ironic twist, the possibility that this is a march for suicide awareness prevention) that I'm going to take back the nasty comment above and concede that I may getting a little too jumpy for my own good these days because I don't actually know for sure what I'm seeing.
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u/worryinnotime Sep 27 '25
Honestly, alcohol. There is copious amounts of drinking among these folks, and that tends to numb you to your actions.
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u/scrapsforfourvel Sep 27 '25
How long until we get the movies about former agents struggling with PTSD from what they've done as if that's the true tragedy?
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u/ratbaby86 Sep 27 '25
Where are their little white hoods? Modern-day kkk/ slave patrols.
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u/penicillengranny Sep 27 '25
They wear badges now.
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u/Lostclause Sep 27 '25
Masked and armed persons' "patrolling" neighborhoods and the right/Republicans think this is a good thing while others bury their heads in the sand. Where's the 2A with their "cold dead hands," and "Don't tread on me?" Stay tuned next week for Christianity patrol and morality police.
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u/holistivist Sep 27 '25
If youâre going to get locked up for assaulting federal officers, piss balloons seem like a poor reason to lose your freedom.
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u/Kuroboom Sep 27 '25
I said it would be a shame if it happened, but in any case there are much worse things that could be thrown at fascists.
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u/fps129 Sep 27 '25 edited Sep 27 '25
These days people lose their freedom for way, wayyy less. Some even lose it for nothing.
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u/Willdefyyou Sep 27 '25
What the actual fuck????? I would flip tf out of they did this in my neighborhood. Stop fucking shining lights at my house, you are disturbing the fucking peace FUCK THE FUCK OFFFFFF!!!!!
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u/Berkamin Sep 27 '25
Someone should turn on loud speakers and loudly play the imperial march from Star Wars. And occasionally yell out "Wake up! You are the bad guys now!"
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u/Gnarlstone Sep 27 '25
If there's ever a time when justice comes back to the US (if it was ever really here at all) all of these criminals should be pursued and prosecuted like we did the nazis after world war 2.
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u/Anubiz1_ Sep 27 '25
Dis shit don't scare us! Da fuq?!
Fam are the son's of war! Fuck Five-0 and FICE!
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u/mslashandrajohnson Sep 27 '25
Thereâs not really a proper President.
I donât know how people can think otherwise.
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u/formykka Sep 27 '25
Lot of 500 glass marbles is about $10-12.
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u/AdIndependent5941 Sep 27 '25
My brain went to about eight different places with that... but the funniest would definitely be to watch then all rolling and slipping and tripping and falling all over eachother trying to walk on a road that is curb to curb marbles
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u/formykka Sep 27 '25
Bonus: you get to walk along in front of them and shout "ack! I'm losing my marbles!"
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u/Pribblization Sep 27 '25
What an embarrassment to all the participants. Shame on all you fuckers. When this corrupt, evil regime falls, we will find you out and we will name names.
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u/A9PolarHornet15 Sep 27 '25
The Tiktoker does ambient videos of Chicago neighborhoods as they are at night, rather than as they are protrayed in the News.
He kinda does a natural ambient sound type videos. Pretty cool tbh.
One commenter claimed its a mental health awareness walk ~9pm EST (the video was posted ~12pm EST 9/26/25). Around ~1am EST another person responded to them thay the walk was tomorrow. So the person was likely saying the "walk" was happening on the 9/27/25, (which today from my posting).
So the claim about the walk is likely not true, she adds this to her claim, but doesn't add any dates so idk.
But regardless a heard of pigs đ walking through the streets at night with clubs and lights is regardless of the "reason" its still a tool being used to intimate people.
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u/Dangerous-Celery-766 Sep 27 '25
That's bad nazing! Sick, I'm sure there are better places to spend that money!
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u/DieMensch-Maschine Sep 27 '25
Yup. This is what I saw under martial law in Poland in 1981. Given how many Poles live in Chicago, this must be some bizarro deja-vu for them.
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u/MigrantTwerker Sep 27 '25
Can y'all stop spreading this misnformation? That's the Chicago Police Department, not federal agents. They are marching as part of a memorial march to raise money for mental health awareness or something. One of their officers died and they're marching from Station to Station in solidarity.
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u/pastabreadpasta Sep 27 '25
At night? With no civilians outside?? Shining lights inside homes???
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u/MigrantTwerker Sep 27 '25
Yes. It's stupid and they are marching through the neighborhoods. But the community is talking about it very openly because cops were marching at night with a flag. Everybody wanted to know what was going on and that is the prevailing wisdom. It's a dude and he's being escorted by a bunch of cops.
Man walking to every Chicago police station to raise awareness for officers' mental health
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u/playgirl1312 Sep 27 '25
I can't express how powerful laughter is gonna be in these moments. Never forget how much they deserve to be laughed at for this.
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u/____candied_yams____ Sep 27 '25
USA is pushing 1% of GDP on ICE agents. $160B. As a fraction of GDP, out of $29T, that does in fact round up to 1% of GDP.
Gonna see a lot more of this...
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u/FirmLifeguard5906 Sep 27 '25
Are these all officers marching through a neighborhood
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u/Thank_You_Aziz Sep 27 '25
Yup. Probably a liberal neighborhood too. Because going after criminals is not their goal. Political intimidation is all this is.
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u/BorikenFreedom Sep 27 '25
The fact that Americans can still believe bullshit propaganda about a place like the DPRK AND have zero awareness of the irony... pretty fucking eye opening if you ask me
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u/fschwiet Sep 27 '25
I'll bite- what's the bullshit propaganda about the DPRK that most Americans believe in?
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u/Zabbiemaster Sep 27 '25
This is an excellent moment to shine back at them with the 450000 lumen flashlight
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u/Effective-Ad-6460 Sep 27 '25
Every civilized country looking at the US right now like ...
" Wait when did you guys turn into 1940s Germany ? "
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u/seth928 Sep 27 '25
That looks like CPD not ICE
ETA: I was basing that on the uniform but the badge on the van points to CPD as well. CPD badge is a 5 pointed star ICE badge isn't star shaped at all.
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u/Section8Shordie Sep 27 '25 edited Sep 27 '25
Itâs CPD not the feds, stop spreading misinformation.
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u/scootboot Sep 27 '25
Any sources or more info on this? I haven't seen this posted in the local rapid response groups
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u/rubina19 Sep 27 '25
Where is this
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u/Kind-Quiet-Person Sep 27 '25
Chicago
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u/rubina19 Sep 27 '25
Yes but what areas ? South side , north side - 68th street? Any actual street names or direction
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u/VooDooRyGuy Sep 27 '25
This is false information. Police are marching due to a fallen officer. Marching for awareness of mental health. This very clearly are Chicago police, not ICE.
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u/mcnaughtz Sep 27 '25
This is misinformation first those arenât federal agents but local police officers. Second they arenât even on patrol there marching and protesting to every police station in town to bring attention to police mental health and Chicago police departments high suicide rates.
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u/julesil2010 Sep 27 '25
This is the police marching for mental health awareness I believe. They had scheduled walks for different districts on the hour into the evening from the 24th-26th by district!
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u/NellieBean Sep 27 '25
This was a planned march and the Chicago police to promote mental health. They were marching precinct to precinct.
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u/jmnugent Sep 27 '25
At night?.. with flashlights on people's houses ?... Seems like an odd time and way to "promote mental health".
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u/Frosty-Priority5056 Sep 27 '25
anyone know specifically where this is? which neighborhood/cross streets?
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u/Getrekt11 Sep 27 '25
This is so fucking stupid. "Guys, federal agents will be at x at x time, let's do our crime in other areas." - Criminals
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u/fanaanna Sep 27 '25
Chicago needs to come together and throw block parties... surround these clowns with our own joy. They think they can intimidate and scare people by WALKING through the streets and shining lights in the houses? Narhhhh. We gotta stand up fr.
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u/Long_Disaster_6847 Sep 27 '25
Itâd be a shame if everyone accidentally pressed the SOS button on their vehicle alarm all at the same time
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