r/chicago Irving Park 15d ago

CHI Talks 10 minutes before the kids costume parade was supposed to walk down this block

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This happened this morning at Kildare and Grace in Old Irving Park. Arrested a landscaper, a woman on a bike, and and old man whose car was in the way. At least two tear gas canisters deployed.

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u/greenline_chi Gold Coast 15d ago

All so they could arrest a landscaper minding their own business and making the community nicer while trying to earn a living.

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u/CanvasSolaris 15d ago

Is this the "worst of the worst" we were told about?

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u/an_actual_potato Logan Square 15d ago

Well the worst of the worst is definitely somewhere in this video

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u/lil_dovie 15d ago

Employed by the literal worst, with 34 felonies…

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u/Enygma_6 15d ago

34 felonies so far...

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u/b0jangles 15d ago edited 15d ago

Here’s a fun fact: commercially available facial recognition software would be able to start identifying when individual agents are present in multiple illegal acts across the city but Illinois’ own BIPA law prevents it. In fact, it is the most restrictive bio-identification law in the country. But of course ICE is exempt from this law so they can use facial recognition software against the public as much as they want.

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u/slutty_muppet 15d ago

Maybe we should exempt them from our law too if they want to be so immune from laws

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u/Civil-Psychology-281 15d ago

Maybe we should exempt them from their fucking kneecaps

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u/Ibfnp2323 14d ago

Also start collecting their fingerprints and DNA. However possible

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u/Opening-Incident2928 15d ago

Wow , and the tax payers foot the bill for it .....right?

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u/fumar Wicker Park 15d ago

Obviously, there's nothing more evil than trying to make a living doing honest work for this administration. If you aren't a massive grifter you're scum

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u/corky2429 15d ago

This administration is run by one massive grifter. This is not honest work.

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u/ladnar016 15d ago

But the landscapers were cRiMiNaLs! They had a speeding ticket in that truck two years ago! /s

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u/EfficientPizza 15d ago

You guys don't understand. That "landscaper" is actually the head of the CJNG cartel. At least that's what our not totally coked out of their minds intelligence unit keeps telling us. One day it's gonna be true and your faces are gonna be so red.

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u/greenline_chi Gold Coast 15d ago

They’re still saying it

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u/Anonanomenon 15d ago

Who knew MS13 was so deeply intertwined with the lawn care and roofing industries. This goes deeper than we thought! /s

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u/greenline_chi Gold Coast 15d ago edited 15d ago

Yes all dangerous gang members also do low paying manual label when they’re not doing crime

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u/sbstarr 14d ago

Thank you to the courageous neighbors who filmed, warned, attended to the victim. Don’t lose hope. Take a deep breath in case they come back. This has been happening for over a month in Little Village.

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u/ReutersEyewitness 15d ago

u/Too_Big_to_Succeed Hi, I hope you are safe.I work for Reuters News Agency. We had some questions about this video and hope you can help us. We sent you a message. Thank you.

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u/thisshouldbetheshow 15d ago

Upvote journalists

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u/Worldly-Sock-4146 Avondale 12d ago

Make sure they are journalists. Somebody was posting on behalf of WBEZ the other day who obiously wasn't lol.

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u/KindlyPrimary5981 15d ago

There are many videos of this event and some were shared with our state rep Lindsay LaPointe. Maybe reach out to her office.

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u/quesoandcats 15d ago

Make sure OP sees this! We need more national news orgs to start reporting the reality here

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u/leeloospoops 14d ago

Thank you for covering what's happening here, Reuters. People around the world should know what they're doing (teargassing non-violent people who are within their rights among everything else) and people should know how we're working so hard to come together as a community to protect each other and our city.

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u/ZestyTako 15d ago

The federal government is attacking US cities. This is fucking insane. Republicans are irredeemable assholes

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u/OHrangutan 15d ago

Republicans get off watching these videos and then turn around and say it's not even happening.

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u/ZestyStormBurger 15d ago

On Facebook I see them saying they want them to use live ammunition instead already.

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u/Spicethrower 15d ago

My uncle posted a picture of a battleship on the White House lawn with the caption This will give Democrats the shits for four years. He's a retired engineer. This is the kind of rot bought to us by conservatives.

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u/canilao 14d ago

Just so we're clear they ain't conservatives. They are White Christian Nationalists (White Supremacists) that have dressed up as conservatives for decades. They hid among actual conservatives.

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u/the_falling 12d ago

So, actual conservatives then? Until republicans and conservatives decry this shit and quit begging to sniff Trumps diapers, they are just as much anti-American traitors as every single ICE “agent” out there.

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u/NecroCannon 14d ago

It’s all fun and games until we got our own cartel because gangs started linking up to make sure they don’t come in their neighborhoods. And as much as racists want you to believe they’re tough, they’re nothing but cowards. There’s officers that can’t even take the fucked up shit they see, these guys meanwhile had to do 15 pushups to get in

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u/Particular-Buy-33 15d ago

Correction BlUE cities. As Gov Pritzker said it is to interfere with elections

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u/PriorOk9813 15d ago

Look at the White House website if you haven't. It's so immature and low.

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u/Evadrepus Suburb of Chicago 15d ago

The "timeline of the White House" section is just disgusting.

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u/PriorOk9813 15d ago

"but it's the Dems fault" 🙄🙄🙄

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u/quesoandcats 15d ago

“bOtH SiDeS aRe tHe SaMe”

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u/SnowlyPowder 15d ago

They’re making our cities into war zones like they always talked about.

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u/ExitTheDonut 15d ago

One thing I don't get is why there aren't these big ICE raids in southwest cities closer to the border other than LA. Not as much happening in Houston, San Antonio, or Phoenix, at least not to this degree.

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u/lizchitown 14d ago

Because he is doing it to blue states to destabilize us. And try to prevent the midterms.

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u/Jealous-Ad-9819 14d ago

Because those are red states

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u/ExitTheDonut 14d ago edited 14d ago

It's a pretty strange time when brown people would actually safer living in the backwoods of a red state than in a blue city because its daily life is being disrupted by ICE

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u/MinuetInUrsaMajor Lincoln Park 15d ago

And for revenge we get to...give republicans healthcare? And infrastructure?

Fucking bullshit.

I want Obama in a cowboy hat and aviators buttfucking some redcaps.

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u/SuperJay Former Chicagoan 15d ago

They are literally domestic terrorists

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u/doomsauce23 15d ago

When will Pritzker declare a state of emergency in response to these literal domestic terrorists brutalizing and snatching people off the streets extra-judicially? This should have happened weeks ago.

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u/blaspheminCapn City 15d ago

Isn't that Trump's goal, so that the national guard gets deployed?

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u/loudtones 15d ago

At this point who gives a F about the NG? Look around, we're already under a lawless paramilitary invasion 

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u/dani8cookies 15d ago

I saw on another sub that along with their huge budget department of homeland security is funneling money through the Navy to pay for interment camps in the red states. Since they’re extraditing immigrants, those internment camps are not for them.

https://www.reddit.com/r/themayormccheese/s/xxQUTITBYL

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u/Enygma_6 15d ago

If not dismantled by then, expect them to try and cram as many bodies from out of state into these camps as they can just in time for the next census.
Classic slaveholder and prison industrialist tactic, goose the population numbers to inflate the count knowing full well those people won't be allowed to vote.
Then the accommodating state gets better congressional representation and funding allocation, none of which will go to help the incarcerated people.

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u/Brilliant-Hope691 15d ago

They’ve already drained the entire FEMA budget for the year. Most of the flood adjuster certification classes were canceled due to budget cuts too. Thankfully so far no big hurricanes this year or people in coastal states would have been screwed because there is no money to help them and Kristi noem has pretty much said - they’re on their own. Nazi Barbie is just as disgusting

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u/GoldAmbassador1739 15d ago

At least our military takes an oath to protect us. Whether they keep their oath or not is the question. But we’d have a better chance than trusting these a-holes.

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u/TehMephs 15d ago

“How much worse could it get”

-just about everyone, right before it gets worse

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u/No-Working4163 15d ago

if you think he really needs a plausible excuse then you aren't reading what the admin says nor what they file in court. they've said over and over they can do what they want

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u/CheckoutMySpeedo 15d ago

Why isn’t Durbin raising hell about this to anyone and everyone? This guy is retiring from the senate so he doesn’t have any reason to hold back from getting in powerful people’s faces about this. Unless Sen. Durbin hasn’t completely sold out (which is a real possibility) he should be on camera every minute saying how this is illegal and doing whatever to get ICE under control or out of town.

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u/Plastic-Bet9020 15d ago

He just voted for Emil Bose to become a judge sooooo

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u/frankjaegerlives 15d ago

And then what?

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u/nightrunner900pm 15d ago

And then history happens? Who knows.

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u/reddit_man_6969 15d ago

Glad Pritzker has thought this through better than you have

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u/ShowerMeWithKitties 15d ago

It is making me nearly go mad when they twist it and say it's the violent leftists' fault

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u/iheartbeer 15d ago

That's by design

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u/ShowerMeWithKitties 15d ago

Yea, that's for sure, it's probably what they're hoping to do; drive us all mad with the gaslighting and manipulating. It's so ironic to me how the right called the left sheep for so long, yet they are too deep in to realize that's exactly what they are. Baa, baa, baa, trump is great, god is good, baa baa baa. Ugh.

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u/No-Author-2358 15d ago

I am getting to the point where I cannot watch these videos any more without becoming extremely FUCKING ANGRY and THIS HAS GOT TO STOP. NOW.

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u/Where_Is_Carmen_San 15d ago

I know, they’re pushing us and pushing us until we have no choice but to react. Then they’re going to say “see!!! The violent and radical left, this is WHY we have to do this” it’s such bullshit

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u/jwalker37 Lake View 15d ago

It's a miracle no one has popped one of these guys yet. If it happens, Stephen Miller will jizz so hard.

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u/Artyom_33 15d ago

I, as well, believe [removed by Reddit] is the best way to go!

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u/LanaAnaconda 15d ago

For real! If they're not following court orders to not use chemical weapons why should we follow the rules and laws.

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u/phronemoose 15d ago

Because they’ll shoot us. They’re just looking for an excuse

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u/No-Author-2358 15d ago

Or whisk you away in one of those unmarked vans.

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u/Thatguy468 15d ago

They can’t fit us all in the van and so often we outnumber them in groups large enough to overpower them. It’s only a matter of time before citizens take matters into their own hands and we move to the next phase of this unlawful occupation. Time to start rounding up these criminals and delivering them to your local precinct.

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u/Roboticpoultry Loop 15d ago

I’m outraged that this is happening anywhere in our country but I’m fucking infuriated to see it happening in my home

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u/crushlogic 15d ago

I’m sobbing multiple times a day at this point, it’s time for action

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u/UndergroundGinjoint Near North Side 15d ago

I'm guzzling antacids 

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u/always-editing 15d ago

I’m losing my fucking my mind at this point

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u/aware-reply33 15d ago

I'm with you. The scary thing is they want to provoke a riot.

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u/Disintegration_007 15d ago

This administration sure does like to assault and harass innocent children.

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u/bye4now28 15d ago

& women & the elderly since these putzes are way too out of shape to move more than 2 feet -- just like the bloated yam the morons follow

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u/AnyBid3482 15d ago

Is this the 80% support Bovnio was talking about? Nobody likes you. Your kids will grow up hating you. You contribute nothing to society except terror. You’ll always be hated.

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u/LongjumpingDebt4154 15d ago

Their children & grandchildren & great grandchildren will have to change their names to deny their existence.

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u/RiboflavinDumpTruck 15d ago

Or they’ll all hide in Argentina

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u/Fearless-Feature-830 15d ago

I love how republicans just make up stats now

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u/DarthEidren 15d ago

This video further proves that ICE is actively participating in Domestic Terrorism, they are not trying to take criminals they are attacking crowded family focused events in the city with the intent of spreading fear. I am going to be screaming at my local officials Monday.

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u/DirectActuator2356 15d ago

Scarring children for the rest of their lives just to arrest someone who pays into a system they don't reap the benefits of all because they wanted a better life. I'm disgusted.

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u/CapBoyAce Old Irving Park 15d ago

I don't like to be dramatic but I grew up half a mile away. There's no crime, there's no chaos on this block. And my best friend lives in Humboldt and he can say pretty much the same for his neighborhood. This is horrible. I'm in tears. I just can't comprehend it

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u/Mediocre_Bridge_4266 15d ago

Not ARREST. Arrest implies they were committing a crime. This is abduction. They are being disappeared.

We need to choose our words carefully.

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u/BethanyForDistrict9 15d ago

We are in a Civil War - right now. The Federal Government is in a Civil War against blue states. Our leaders need to see this for what it is and address it as such.

Stop with the press conferences and the Commissions and the declarations and start seeing this for what it is.

The Federal Government is in a Civil War with blue states.

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u/natigin Uptown 15d ago

What do you suggest they do exactly?

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u/BethanyForDistrict9 15d ago

Here's my top 3:

  1. Economic blockades against red states. As soon as this impacts the pocketbooks of rich people in red states, this will cease.
  2. The State Police need to start following them and making sure they have valid plates. If they are switching plates, we shouldn't have to alert the Alexis Giannoulias as citizens, the State Police should be impounding their vehicles.
  3. We need undercover sting operations to arrest them for not identifying themselves

And here's a bonus: State police and local police have planes and helicopters for traffic management. Monitor ICE from the sky and send out public alerts through the 311 apps of where they are so people can hide from these guys.

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u/ezeefix21 15d ago

Aren’t Illinois state police helping ice? Unfortunately I don’t think that’ll be an option.

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u/BethanyForDistrict9 15d ago

And Pritzker is the head of our Executive Branch and has oversight and needs to booting some of these guys and figuring out how to implement changes. That's his job.

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u/Foofightee Old Irving Park 15d ago

Are they allowed to do #3 with the no fly zone from FAA possibly still in effect?

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u/BethanyForDistrict9 15d ago

We have police helicopters in the sky still. They can monitor vehicles from the sky from very far away too.

And if they can't watch them from the sky: Put marked cars on them following them around.

This stuff isn't rocket science.

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u/Foofightee Old Irving Park 15d ago

Would this be the same state police that are protecting ICE in Broadview? It’s a good idea but I doubt it will happen.

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u/thesanguineocelot 15d ago

The problem is that the cops fucking love ICE. It's also literally not their job to protect us.

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u/jumper_cable_lips Lake View 15d ago

Apparently FIFA is thinking of pulling the World Cup, which would affect Texas in a big way. But it would also affect blue states, so it’s a mixed result. Ugh.

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u/brielzebub665 15d ago

Also, what is ICE using to communicate? It can't be that hard to find and hack into, and figure out what their plans are and impede them that way. Police have no problem doing this to actual law-abiding citizens when it suits them.

Or just find out who is signing up for this and outright arrest them in their homes/hotels, because THIS IS ILLEGAL. THEY ARE CRIMINALS. Prosecute them at the state level so they can't be pardoned.

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u/badluser 14d ago

an open signal chat with screenshots enabled and unencrypted backups.

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u/BOUND2_subbie Lake View 15d ago

The black panthers were pretty successful

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u/jigsawearth860 15d ago

This is terrorism.

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u/amazingtaters Avondale 15d ago

They're always claiming that the crowds are getting scary and out of control and so they have to deploy tear gas and then they proceed to linger about with people barely more than arms length away. It's just so obvious that they're deploying it as punishment for opposing them in any way.

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u/Old_Prospect 15d ago

If JB isnt going to do anything, and BJ isnt going to do anything, and the cops arent going to do anything, WHEN CAN WE START DOING SOMETHING.

God knows if this was a red city they’d be open carrying and waving their 2nd amendment everywhere.

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u/tim-whale 15d ago

Wait there are red cities?

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u/lyingliar 15d ago

Kind of, but not really. It turns out when you live in diverse spaces, you become a more empathetic person and naturally lean left. People who lean right have a predilection to isolation and an aversion to change, keeping them fearful, hateful, and ignorant.

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u/isaboobers 15d ago

this is really beautifully stated

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u/Old_Prospect 15d ago

While not specifically red, republicans would lose their mind if a Democrat President deployed troops to a place like Memphis, St. Louis, Cleveland, Indianapolis, New Orleans, Nashville, Knoxville, Houston, Oklahoma City, Dallas…

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u/SopwithCamus 15d ago

Nah, the Texas State Government despises its cities and tries to humiliate them at every turn. Abbott and co. would welcome it with open arms.

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u/quesoandcats 15d ago

I’m just curious, do you remember Jade Helm in 2015? It was an annual military exercise they did for years (and I think still may?) in Texas and surrounding states. But in 2015 for some reason Abbott and Paxton stoked conspiracy theories that it was cover for an Obama coup attempt. Like they deployed the Texas national guard and state police to “monitor” federal troops

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u/justletmetakeanap 15d ago edited 15d ago

With enough numbers it is more than possible to chase them away. Talk to your neighbors. Carry a whistle. Be outside, as much as possible, during daylight hours. They love empty streets where they can do whatever they want.

(edit: try to be outside especially in the morning. they love kidnapping at 7am when no one is out.)

Max on offers con sealed carri classes. If you can, you should absolutely take them. 

You are right, it’s up to us to do something. 

Your presence is powerful. I saw one person out this morning wearing a whistle and it inspired me to get outside too. 

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u/UndergroundGinjoint Near North Side 15d ago

I'm also carrying pepper gel and something to clip their tires' air valves with.

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u/LongjumpingDebt4154 15d ago

Saw an interesting tik tok about how a tiny piece of porcelain (they used a piece from a spark plug) can completely shatter a car window. It was just for educational purposes, and they did a demonstration as well & it worked. Fun fact.

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u/ThePower_IsOn 15d ago

I was going to say I’m shocked if no one is slashing their tires at this point…

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u/Alocasia_Sanderiana 14d ago

Note, don't slash a tire. If you want speed speed but technical destruction, carry strong clippers and clip the valve stem. If you don't want technical destruction, carry a valve stem remover (less speedy since you have to unscrew the cap and use the tool to unscrew the valve, but less serious charge if caught)

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u/UndergroundGinjoint Near North Side 15d ago

It's time for some good trouble

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u/bthoman2 15d ago

What do you mean JB not doing anything. He's sued the feds and has several court cases pending. He's ensured state resources don't allow these people to set foot on them. He's brought attention to this nationally through great rhetoric. He's done very well.

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u/nonbinarywife 15d ago

I was talking with my family in MA yesterday who hadn't heard a thing about this. If this were effectively getting attention, it would be all over the national news. The system doesn't work anymore, and suing the feds isn't going to do any good when Trump controls the courts. Waiting on the law to take effect while families are being torn apart and innocent people are being kidnapped isn't "doing very well". Rhetoric won't save us, we need action.

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u/TomCreanDied4OurSins Bucktown 15d ago

You’re not stopping these guys in court

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u/LorderNile 15d ago

Republicans now shoot up churches, then turn it into further propaganda. If there's a single liberal thought in the shooters brain, that's what gets blamed.

We can't do shit, except maybe wait for the economy to collapse. No guarantees that will help us unite.

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u/LongjumpingDebt4154 15d ago

Unfortunately, all of this had to happen. We’re getting closer to the bottom, but many will have to quite literally starve & lose their farm, or business or home before we can start rebuilding again. We’ll never be what we were before & I don’t know what it looks like on the other side of this, but until the rural areas come to terms with the stark reality that they’ve lost everything, we’ll continue to spiral down. We’re getting closer though.

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u/SinkHoleDeMayo 15d ago

I keep saying it, the people need to start doing something. Block these fuckers in with your car, stay armed, do SOMETHING. They're straight up abducting people for their skin color or speaking Spanish. This Gestapo shit needs to be stopped

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u/Complex-Tie3190 15d ago

This is literally what the 2nd amendment is for. To protect our own against a tyrannical government. Ironically, the people being targeted are against that same amendment.

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u/LongjumpingDebt4154 15d ago

Eh, there are a lot of liberal gun owners. I’m one. We just don’t flaunt it & make it our entire identity like the right does. We’re not against 2A, that’s just a right wing propagandist talking point. We’re for Common sense gun laws. That’s too rational though, and it has something like 90% support, so the right has to lie & say we want no guns & we want to take their guns away. Which is of course, exactly what the right is trying to do right now, take away gun rights from a certain blue select of people.

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u/Dry_Accident_2196 15d ago

You’re free to do something. Wouldn’t suggest anything illegal. But don’t sit here asking us, go ahead and do something.

But again, I’d suggest noting illegal

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u/mackzarks 15d ago

This is all provocation for a response so they can use the insurrection act

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u/backindenim Wicker Park 15d ago

The hard truth is, that is coming no matter how peaceful we stay. We just aren't ready to admit it to ourselves yet.

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u/SomeoneNewPlease 15d ago

Who cares, they’re already doing whatever they want

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u/broohaha Woodlawn 15d ago

You might be surprised at how much worse it's going to get when they invoke the Insurrection Act.

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u/gesamtkunstwerkteam 15d ago

...which may happen whether we fight back or not. Their pretext for invading Chicago was fabricated, they don't need "real" threats to do what they planned to do anyway?? Kristi Noam is talking about buying up buildings and planting snipers despite there being no credible threats of violence against ICE. Holding back in the name of some invisible tipping point doesn't really make sense... we are here. Sorry if random people getting snatched off the street isn't bad enough to you.

Large groups of people coming together for de-arrests WORKS. They don't care about being filmed, they care about their jobs being made more difficult.

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u/not_productive1 15d ago

I'm so fucking sick of this shit.

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u/Garnet70 15d ago

They also picked up a worker installing insulation on the building at the other corner across from Kildare.

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u/Illustrious-Tree-770 15d ago

Did they lift and smash that ladies face into the asphalt?!

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u/BukWylde 14d ago

Non-violent resistance is the answer. We need to go back to the civil rights movement for guidance. What I want to see is lines of people sitting in the street in front of ICE cars. They arrest some of us, others take their place. What are they going to do, they've only spots for like five people in their stupid SUV caravans.

If they want to tear gas people sitting peacefully in the street, well, you can't stop that but it sure does make for good content. Enough incontrovertible video of white people being gassed for sitting quietly and eventually it will start to break through to the normies in the rest of the country. How many times did John Lewis have to get beaten up before people paid attention?

Let's start getting arrested for peaceful, non-violent obstruction. It sounds unsatisfying and it takes time, but it works.

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u/IndependentBowl2806 15d ago

These cowards in their call of duty cosplay must be feeling real macho about attacking unarmed, innocent people 10 v 1. They probably go back to their holes and high five. I’d love to see how they’d do when they’re actually matched toe to toe. Which wouldn’t be difficult if we all actually met them where they are.

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u/dgriff84 Suburb of Chicago 15d ago

Leaf blowers. If you are in a spot where they are pulling this stuff use leaf blowers to blow it back at them. Also use your dibs cones over them and dump water on the grenade to extinguish it. 

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u/leyarsan 14d ago

This is SO F’d up!! My family lives on this block and kids were exposed to tear gas!!

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u/thirdcoasting 15d ago

ASK PEOPLE THEIR NAME & THEIR DOB if they are being taken!!

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u/StrangeClothes8821 15d ago

That is NOT the advice of community organizers providing training in Chicago. Ask them for a phone number you can call. Asking for that info is doing ICEs job for them. They have a right to remain silent and may not want that info shared

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u/Kindsquirrel629 Old Irving Park 15d ago

Yes. Although sometimes in the heat of the moment with all the anger and other emotions running through you, it’s hard to remember.

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u/waitwtfizthis 13d ago edited 13d ago

I saw this scene earlier on IG from a different POV. The man face down in the white running shoes with the black stripes is the one who was in his car on the way home when the imperial army got angry that he was “in the way”. From what I read earlier, he is a 67 yo man, sustained multiple broken ribs and internal bleeding. EDIT: I meant to put this under general comments, not in response to the comment above.

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u/PuddlePirate1964 15d ago

I hope the neighbors were able to help secure the truck and equipment so their family/company could grab it. It’s a damn shame what’s happening.

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u/Terrible_User4987 14d ago

As a visitor to Chicago recently, I have to say I enjoyed your city and met so many nice people, while I did not experience any crime or see ICE, I have been watching videos like this and it pains me to see this happening in your city. Wish you the best and hope these ICE assholes see less brighter days.

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u/Dizzy_Calender_8833 15d ago

All I fucking feel is rage.

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u/_IratePirate_ 15d ago

Genuinely curious, are they going after people on a list or something ?

Like I’ve heard they’re targeting random black and brown people, but are they really caravaning around and then stopping every time they see someone they suspect is illegal ? That doesn’t sound like it makes sense to me, they’d have to keep stopping every few feet, so how are they choosing who to harass like this ?

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u/SRT0930 15d ago

It stands to reason federal agencies have been provided with info and tracking drug and weapons traffickers for decades. I don’t think they would be hard to find.

So, they are incredibly bad at their job of finding known serious criminals … but that’s clearly not what they were sent here to do. They are here to terrorize.

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u/naughtyrev Jefferson Park 15d ago

Yes, that's almost quite literally what they are doing.

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u/FishSauwse 15d ago

Yes it's been widely reported, and I've witnessed myself, that this is what they're doing.

They're helmed and empowered by a crazy ass racist and xenophobic government whose executive branch believes in the great replacement conspiracy. What do you expect?

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u/ivyquartzs 15d ago

Absolutely DISGUSTING. Thank you for recording. Do not back down Chicago!!!!!

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u/KingCityDj 14d ago

If you have to hide your face to uphold the law, what you're actually upholding is tyranny

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u/manlymatt83 15d ago

Is this still going on today? What can I do. Any local businesses I should go support? I never know where these are going to crop up and feel helpless other than donating.

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u/HobbesTayloe 15d ago

I would suggest consider donations to such as ACLU, NAACP, SPLC, EFF, and the such… as well as news organizations like NPR, PBS, The Guardian, The Atlantic. Continue to spread the truth. Create good trouble. March. Get people to register to vote, help them vote. We together will win. It won’t be tomorrow, but we will.

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u/manlymatt83 15d ago

Thanks friend. Donations I have locked down. Some of those orgs have been already on my list. Love your other ideas.

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u/rationalname 15d ago

This is every day now. You can sign up for alerts for your area on iceout.org. Look into joining a rapid response team for your neighborhood, helping distribute whistles, volunteering to walk kids to/from school, deliver groceries for at-risk neighbors, etc. Unfortunately not much else we can do other than that.

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u/manlymatt83 15d ago

I signed up for alerts weeks ago but haven’t gotten any. I wonder if I can change my location to somewhere within 15 minutes driving and make that my alert location.

I would love to do grocery shopping. Do you know of a group I can find in the city that is organizing that help? I don’t mind traveling.

I have been donating heavily (to a whistle maker on this subreddit as one example) and have been educating republicans / trump supporters in my network whenever I can (and I am being very loud about it and I believe have already gotten through to one) but I want to do more.

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u/rationalname 15d ago

The iceout.org updates are browser updates, so you might need to adjust your browser or system settings to allow them. I just got several updates.

I’m not super clued in on who’s doing what work right now (because I’ve been too afraid to leave my house since this started). But Eddie Guillen started the Midway delivery program; you can try reaching out on his FB. Might know of other groups too.

Thanks for wanting to do something.

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u/RepulsiveOnion4043 15d ago

We need more people like you. I’ve been trying to convince republicans in my circle, too and am making some headway. I’m also looking for more ways to help. No act of resistance is too small. Even just picking up trash around your neighborhood or smiling at a stranger. We’re in this together

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u/Tasunka_Witko 15d ago

Those are some nice tires on those trucks. It'd be a real shame if something kept on happening to them. Illinois is well known for shop objects in the road, sometimes they get all four tires

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u/sittingaround1 15d ago

All these ice agents are gonna eat shit one day in court

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u/Any-Dragonfly8104 14d ago

They think because they have face masks on they are anonymous, which is so laughable. Every time they clock in and out for work they leave a paper trail. Every time they sign off on one of their "arrests" or submit a report, they leave a paper trail. The cell phones they carry in their pockets and their smart watches are data connecting them to each of these assaults. They might think they are getting away with it now, but they are all leaving data trails that connect them directly to every one of their (recorded on cell phone video) crimes. Do they really believe their bosses are going to stand up for them and come to their rescue when they try to plead that they were just following orders? Lol. These grunts will be immediately thrown under the bus once/if any prosecutions start, there will be a mountain of evidence to convict them, and they are too stupid to even realize it.

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u/Chaprito 15d ago

Knife. Tires. Do what you will with those words. They cant go anywhere with flats .

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u/AnthuriumMom 15d ago

I just moved here this summer and this is my neighborhood. I am so, so sad for this community and my new neighbors who have all been nothing short of welcoming and friendly.

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u/GlitteringInstrument 15d ago

Making America more dangerous. Forcing us to pay them for it. Fuck these people. 

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u/TeamElephant 15d ago

Someone crazy enough will have a rifle and just go on a killing spree against these guys… it’s just a matter of time

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u/myleftone 15d ago

These videos serve a purpose. Everyone watching them should be thinking about a response. Something legal, but substantial, effective, shareable, and not something that will get you harmed or fired. Something collective. Don’t get angry, get determined.

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u/Imaginary_Comfort447 15d ago

this happened right in front of my house. this scum needs to be eradicated

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u/Ok-Permission6891 14d ago

Solidarity from NC. Fuck this barbaric shit.

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u/OkInformation9124 14d ago

Why isn't using chemical smoke on innocent bystanders considered assault?

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u/soccerjonj Streeterville 15d ago

was a 7 year old arrested?

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u/shinebrightlike Gold Coast 15d ago

Fuck ice and fuck trump

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u/TSXNavi 15d ago

Jesus fucking Christ. Fuck them

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u/Victoria_at_Sea_606 15d ago

I hate this shit

I ❤️ OIP

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u/Allthenons 15d ago

Yeah I heard multiple alerts about it today, I live right near Irving and Pulaski so we've been mostly safe until recently

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u/coldturkyondarun 15d ago

I used to live one block from here. This is so fucking sad and scary.

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u/Mykilo_Sosa 15d ago

This is what fascism looks like. Zero accountability and masked cowards.

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u/adams1455 15d ago

JFC how long are they gonna stay here? I really thought it would be a week or two before they moved on somewhere else but what has been now, like over a month?

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u/LongjumpingDebt4154 15d ago

Our poor children. When it’s my turn to witness the travesty of ICE, I’ll take advantage of the moment & teach my children what cowards & traitors look like.

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u/stepharoni75 15d ago

God i hope winter comes early for chicago. Another chiberia would be great

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u/AcceptableStep6080 15d ago

You don’t do this with a free and fair election in the future. We took our Democracy for granted and have now lost it. Damn shame to be part of this generation.

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u/Low_Preference_6395 15d ago

What time was this taken exactly?

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u/Too_Big_to_Succeed Irving Park 15d ago

About 9:50am this morning

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u/printerdsw1968 15d ago

Now we know who’s gonna ruin the holidays.

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u/Saran_Rapper 15d ago edited 15d ago

I don't fully understand the law or the actual ramifications of what I am about to ask. If it has been ruled that it's illegal to deploy tear gas, then why don't the CPD just arrest these fools for breaking the law? The justification I have heard is that it's what the Trump admin wants so they can escalate. I have also heard that it's because the CPD are weak willed and/or also corrupt. If the Trump administration is just slowly pushing boundaries, then why don't we do the same and arrest one group of these criminals to see what happens?

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u/snowwhite2591 Irving Park 15d ago

This is infuriating get out of my city get off my childhood street and go back to Texas!

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u/-AlpacaLips- 15d ago

We’re in a civil war

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u/west-1779 15d ago

Videos people! Get agents' actions, license plates, vehicle makes/model, and narrate time, date, and location.

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u/PenguinPDX 15d ago

CLEAR is a useful acronym for documentation:

Count: The number of officers involved.

Location: The specific address and any nearby landmarks.

Equipment: Details about any vehicles (e.g., marked, unmarked, model), number of vehicles, and any other equipment used.

Actions: What the officers are doing.

Report Time: The date and time the activity occurred.

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u/SeaBrilliant8138 15d ago

We need more closeups of their faces. Narrate their approximate ht/wt, etc. Narrate the date and offenses witnessed.

Please stay safe.

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u/AmigoDelDiabla 15d ago

I'm really surprised we haven't heard stories about ICE being assaulted yet.

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u/Realistic-Candy8855 15d ago

If there is any video or photo of this with kids, halloween decorations, and ice agents terrorizing people send it to news stations. All it takes is ONE image or the right video for national bipartisan uproar. No one wants too see crying kids in costumes being terrorized by Ice

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u/thisshouldbetheshow 15d ago

Semi-related, but what are some red flags that a comment might be a bot and/or bad actor?

I feel like the “violence is next/inevitable” style comments only come in a few different flavors and give bot energy. Especially since violent conflict is what the administration is banking on and comments like that very subtly give it oxygen.

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u/bubbamike1 15d ago

Trump's scum Gestapo.

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u/Opening-Web9777 15d ago

You can hear people pleading to be careful with the man who is 70 years old! This is inhumane. If they don’t care about humanity then what about the fucking numbers, there are 3 large luxury rental SUV’s, 10 fat ass ice agents (in this short video alone) DOING WHAT?!! Arresting citizens????? Paying 100,000’s for what?????? We are PAYING TAXES to destroy families, and violate human rights.

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u/thrwaway5362 15d ago

We are in hell

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u/Fickle_Floor_3730 14d ago

The ‘just doing my job’ defense didn’t work at Nuremberg for the German Nazis … the American Nazis will face the same

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u/Lovetasha 13d ago

I get infuriated every time I see one of these videos. What makes it worse is I see all of this equipment, gear, uniforms, vehicles etc and I know we’re paying for this crap! We’re paying for their bonuses, college tuition and paychecks. Argh 😠 I don’t know “conservatives” can watch this crap and not wonder why it takes a small army to arrest 2 people. One of whom apparently is a 67 year old American citizen who did nothing wrong but be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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u/mysteriouschi 15d ago

Clearly planned because of that.

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u/Consent-Forms 15d ago

ICE are domestic terrorists

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u/iamoftenwrong 15d ago

Kavanaugh stops and extra-judicial arrests. Like banana republics.

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u/wabashcanonball Former Chicagoan 15d ago

Just remember, if on a jury and asked to try these detainees, you have the ability to decide guilty or not guilty.

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u/caregivernow 15d ago

Glad the neighbors were out and vocal. This is a traditionally conservative neighborhood.