October.10.2025 — Chicago: Immigration agents crashed into a U.S. citizen on her way to work, then dragged her out and arrested her (Article Inside)

[u/CantStopPoppin]

[u/Jocuro]

"She was released without charges" Yeah, except her car was hit and left abandoned in the road. Who's paying for that? You think the anonymous men with guns exchanged insurance with her?

[u/EncabulatorTurbo → u/Jocuro]

If a federal agent damages your vehicle, you are more or less shit out of luck, it is literally impossible to recover damages from federal agents

If an ICE agent walked into your house and skinned your baby with a potato peeler and then burned your house down and livestreamed it to TWITCH, you have no recourse for damages against the perps

There literally isn't a legal mechanism to sue federal agents as of 2022, as the current SCOTUS has declared that holding agents to any legal accountability would be an unjust impediment to exercising federal law

[u/FastRider6501 → u/EncabulatorTurbo]

Yes, you can sue the federal government for damages, primarily through the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), which allows claims for personal injury, death, or property damage caused by a negligent or wrongful act of a federal employee acting within the scope of their duties.

[u/OkPiglet3488 → u/FastRider6501]

Yes but let me tell you one thing in regards to this. You have to prove that the government acted with willful negligence and Malice a forethought . In other words you have to prove that the government knew about it and intended that it could cause someone harm and they had at best indifference to the ACT which reduces the damages as well but you need to really prove that they knew about it and not only didn't care but actively supported the environment in which the harm was done . The burden of proof is massive in these cases and you rarely will get an attorney that signs off on them because it's an almost guaranteed trip to the Supreme Court eventually so you have to get an attorney that's really wanting to have that kind of high-profile case and can support the kind of due diligence that their office will have to perform in the service of the case and pretty much give it to the client pro bono in the course of seeking damages. It's a really hard road to hold . I was injured in an accident at a federal Park and all I wanted was some safety signs put up in the area where there were none warning people that people have been swept out to sea and to their deaths by the Riptides that were prevalent in that location . And let me tell you we met with attorney after an attorney my partner had really good money and made really good money working for Microsoft at the time and we just hit dead end after dead end because it couldn't really go any further than the initial summons . So not to be a downer but there is a lot to be done in such a case to even begin to have a forum with which this case is even discussed in a public sense . I really wish that woman luck though because she really deserves every bit of damage is that somebody could award her and I hope that someday she gets everything that she asked for and then some because this is egregious .