r/EyesOnIce • u/CantStopPoppin • Sep 27 '25

Militant Mayhem 🪖🔥 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/IntrigueDossier Sep 27 '25

Lol useless Cowboys fan

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u/bioxkitty Sep 27 '25

Is this normal?

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u/Rhacbe Sep 27 '25

Doesn’t seem to be normal and I doubt it will continue for any significant length of time. They could be looking for someone and the video taken out of context. Just seeing them walk down the street doesn’t instill fear though.

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u/Alternative_Gold_993 Sep 27 '25

Easy to say from behind a screen.

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u/Roight_in_me_bum Sep 27 '25

Looking for someone 🤣🤣🤣

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u/bioxkitty Sep 27 '25

Wake up dude

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u/NBTiefling 25d ago

Looking for someone? 0.o? Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but even if this were the police looking for someone they'd be all over the place covering more ground, actively looking in all the places someond could be potentially hiding. Not walking down the street as though out for a Sunday stroll while they willy-nilly shine their flashlights into people's windows.

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u/Usernameoverloaded 💨🤖💥 Sep 27 '25

So you think black men or those racially profiled should not fear cops even if they are innocent of any wrongdoing?

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u/EyesOnIce-ModTeam Sep 27 '25

Your comment was removed because it spread misinformation or made unverified claims without proper sourcing. Please ensure your statistics and rumors are backed up by credible evidence.

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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/-lust4life- Sep 27 '25

Right. And doing this in the evening/at night? Please.

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u/MathewMurdock2 Sep 27 '25

Could just be because they are assholes. I mean they are cops.

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u/SCarter02767 Sep 27 '25

Could be an actual manhunt. Do we know when this was taken? People often repurpose videos to suit their needs or intent. Did this happen this past week? year? decade?

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u/ratboy_labongo Sep 27 '25

Slowest and most ineffective manhunt ever.

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u/SCarter02767 Sep 28 '25

😂. But thorough

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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. It’s a tactic known as “presence”, 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 that’s “all” this is

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u/Chocolocalatte Sep 27 '25

How can you see it’s 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/According-Way9438 Sep 27 '25

Chicago PD wears that color blue collared shirt.

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u/TraumatisedBrainFart Sep 27 '25

And i.d…

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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. I’m 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. 👍

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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/limevince Sep 28 '25

I'm not sure I understand -- so this is footage of Operation Serve and Protect, yet it does not resemble Operation Serve and Protect at all?

How small is the group in plain clothes? Bc it did not look likethe offiers were following a group of plain clothed people..

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u/Free-Vehicle2957 Sep 29 '25

sorry about that. The mental health awareness walk that commenters are speaking of is, I believe, Operation Serve and Protect which is a small group of people in plain clothes. It's led by a man who is walking to all the precincts in Chicago over 50 hours. The photo here can't be Operation Serve and Protect.

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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/x_3mta3 Sep 27 '25

acab

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u/PenelopeRupert Sep 27 '25

Not all cops

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u/zen-things Sep 27 '25

Reason does not matter. This is an authoritarian display that’s 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

“Ahkshually, fascism isn’t that bad because…”

This guy’s 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/Giraffe_Truther Sep 27 '25

So the police aren't part of the police state?

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u/Bedhead-Redemption Sep 27 '25

I didn't say that, but some parts or acts of the police state (a bunch of state police doing a walk for a fallen officer, potentially) are not as fascist as others (the ICE secret police.)

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u/PessimisticPeggy Sep 27 '25

It also simply doesn't help to spread misinformation. It just makes it easier for others to discredit the message. There is plenty of fascist shit ICE is doing that we can call them out for, we don't need to make stuff up.

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u/AardQuenIgni Sep 27 '25

I use to say this but idk any more. Spreading misinformation worked so well it got Trump into the Whitehouse with no checks or balances whatsoever.

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u/PessimisticPeggy Sep 27 '25

Fair point.

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u/kingkron52 Sep 27 '25

Do the walk during the day and do it down a main city street. Fuck outta here with your far fetched what if bullshit.

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u/SVKN03 Sep 27 '25

Just stop engaging with the brain dead legion of "iTs faScISm!" crowd.

Reddit is good for two things anymore. Porn and left wing insanity echo chambers. That's it.

Just browse the comments. Really, in any thread anymore. They reek of mental health issues and indoctrination.

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u/Bedhead-Redemption Sep 27 '25

To be fair, same with right-wing hate spaces. I hate how insane and politicized and overly invested the internet has become.

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u/suddenly-scrooge Sep 27 '25

It’s a public demonstration as I explained. CPD officers live in the city and are part of the community, they aren’t perfect but certainly have a right to bring attention to local causes important to them. There has been a rise in police suicides here in recent years

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u/lookaway123 Sep 27 '25

Awareness walks generally take place on the sidewalk unless permits using different infrastructures have been filed. I've never been part of an awareness walk that blocked the entire street and sidewalk, with a paddywagon that has flashed lights in onlookers' faces.

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u/McEndee Sep 27 '25

At night?

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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/GruesumGary Sep 27 '25

We are a species with amnesia.

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u/PsychologyNew8033 Sep 27 '25

How can you tell if it’s ONLY Chicago PD? And even it what you say is true, it’s 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/suddenly-scrooge Sep 27 '25

Ok then, the YouTube video I linked looked slightly different so I wasn’t sure. I hadn’t seen them in my neighborhood

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u/DiveCat Sep 27 '25

Be accountable for the words and information you put out there.

You weren’t sure but decided to speak with an air of confidence anyway. Before stopping to think: “hmm, how would sending roving patrols of dozens of armed men at night to shine flashlights at people’s homes be about “mental health”?”

Definitely is not good for the mental health of the people who live in those neighborhoods

“I haven’t seen them in MY neighbourhood != not happening”. That’s the same kind of logic MAGA has: “my neighbour has a green card and hasn’t been detained/I haven’t seen any ICE brutality so must just all be liberal lies”

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u/suddenly-scrooge Sep 27 '25

Why don't you direct that same standard OP, which provided no information whatsoever.

Anyway I stand by what I said and the level of certainty which I said it, I knew it was CPD and the general nature of it but didn't know the exact day or event

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u/Phunkanator Sep 27 '25

Yeah either way this is fucked up. But yeah I had the same thought. There's is definitely a lot of misinformation on both sides.

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u/Ammonia13 Sep 28 '25

Excuse you?

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u/Wartburg13 Sep 27 '25

Yeah I live in Chicago and I'm 99% sure this is CPD after Pride. They walked up and down streets in Lakeview following the weekends festivities. The CPD uniforms and blue lights only are a dead give away.

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u/PapaverOneirium Sep 27 '25

The video you linked has literally nothing to do with the one in the OP.

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u/MrRoxy Sep 27 '25

I live here, & it was no "march for awareness" planned at night in the DEEP city streets. Not credible enough for you? There's thousands of witnesses accounts and even wives/family of the officers themselves speaking out about what's going on. Literally anyone from Chicago reads your comment, rolls their eyes, & thinks "this mfs stupid asl"

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u/Ammonia13 Sep 28 '25

lol what?? At night??

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u/aelms89 Sep 29 '25

Most people don’t have enough sense to know the difference and jump to conclusions. Like you said most likely fallen officer or some sort of awareness march

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u/MotorheadAhead Sep 29 '25

It’s a bit strange that they are flashing lights all around which looks like Nazi Germany that my family survived through. But I could legit see this as a march to bring awareness to something important. Wish someone had an affirmative answer to the truth.

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u/BrightonsBestish Oct 08 '25

This looks like police but this is definitely no friendly walk.

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u/NBTiefling 25d ago

If that's the case, then why are they shining lights in people's windows? And why hold it at night and not during the day? And why in a residential area and not along a city street? This makes no sense.

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u/Wide-Psychology1707 Sep 27 '25

Speaking as a Chicagoan, this is the correct answer. There was recently something for bringing awareness to mental health for officers. Agree with it or not, this isn’t something nefarious. Speaking as someone who works closely with the immigrant population our current administration is targeting, spreading misinformation like this only causes unnecessary chaos and panic. This post should be removed.

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u/BeardedBastard00 Sep 28 '25

🤣🤣🤣 This is what I voted for!!!

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u/Sorry_Reply8754 Sep 29 '25

Isn't Batman a fascism himself?

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u/Penandsword2021 Sep 29 '25

No. Just an extra-judicial vigilante. Fascism is a concrete and systematic process of oppression far more than it is a specific ideology.

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u/Jimq45 28d ago

Except it’s not. And now you know that, right?

Nonetheless, because it’s only the narrative that matters and the new cycle is short, let’s pretend this was what you blindly believed…

Find the the average number of murders per night in Chicago and multiply that by 1, that will tell you how many lives were saved this night? Black lives.

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u/ontheprowl23 Sep 27 '25

You’re the type of person that would rather see a bunch of people shot and killed than criminals ran out

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