'We're being invaded by our own military'
ICE agents waved their guns at people, handcuffed people who had no warrants, and zip-tied children together in a wave of terror described as "being invaded by our own military."
Trump’s ICE thugs are now zip-tying children together while they wave their guns around in what is being described as “being invaded by our military.”
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents waved their guns at people in an apartment hallway, handcuffed people who had no warrants, and zip-tied children together in a wave of terror in a South Shore apartment building in Chicago overnight.
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Trump has suggested he could turn Chicago into a military training ground.
Residents and neighbors described the raid as a traumatic event, with one telling ABC7 Chicago News that the building was shaking. They also spoke to resident Pertissue Fisher, who said ICE treated them all as if they were “nothing.” She described coming out into the hallway of the complex in her nightgown around 10PM on Monday, to meet a gun in her face and people yelling, “Police!”
“It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face,” she told ABC7. “They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, ‘No,’ I didn’t.”
Nonetheless, they handcuffed her, not to release her until 3 AM.
This was all captured by Citizen app video, and neighbors told ABC7 there were dozens of ICE agents. A woman described being grabbed by agents as she put her key in her lock. She reports she was detained without being told why.
Other neighbors described ducking as they heard “several flash bangs.”
“They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other,” Watson said. “That’s all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where’s the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, ‘f*** them kids.’”
Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building.
“They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down,” said witness Darrell Ballard. “We’re under siege. We’re being invaded by our own military.”
Other users shared videos they say were of a woman and children being taken by ICE two days ago in Chicago:
And things are getting “tense” outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago four days ago, with ICE agents chasing after protesters, and smoke and pepper bullets being deployed outside the facility. An agent hurt his own leg chasing after one protester.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has denied reports that federal agents use zip ties on children.
“This is categorically false. During a recent encounter and arrest of an 18-year-old illegal alien, he was photographed alongside minor children in immigration court in San Antonio, Texas. ICE officers do not restrain minors,” DHS assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Newsweek in early June.
Zip-tying children isn’t new for Trump’s ICE, either. Four months ago, a poster shared this:
Other video from mid September appears to show ICE agents arresting a man in Little Village “as his wife and two young children cry. The man’s wife said the agents did not present a warrant and says her husband has a work visa and no criminal record.”
After ICE agents fatally shot a Mexican immigrant on September 12th, DHS issued a statement justifying the killing saying the federal agent was “seriously injured.”
“Two weeks ago, a man was shot and killed by ICE in Franklin Park, Illinois. Shortly after, ICE issued a statement justifying the killing, saying the federal agent was ‘seriously injured,’’’ Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said.
But then bodycam footage from Franklin Park police officers “showed the hurt ICE agent describing his own injuries as ‘nothing major.’”
Trump’s ICE agents are wildly untrained to the point that they raise loaded guns to aim at people for no reason, shove a 79-year-old man to the floor in passing just for fun it seems, shove a young mother to the ground after pulling her hair, and try to shove their own loaded weapon into their pants, missing a holster or even the ability to get inside their pants so they end up sticking it into a belt loop with it aimed at their genitals.
These are not people whose job is to deescalate violence or deal with crime. They are either not trained on rules of engagement like regular police or the military, or they have such emotional issues that they are unable to uphold the standards. Either way, they would be unlikely to pass an exam to be a police officer by any qualified person.
Over and over again, we see the presence of ICE agents incite confrontations and violence, with Portland police saying as much in a court hearing. They are not there to deal with violence; they are there to incite violence in order to justify further militarization of the United States of America.
Donald Trump has turned the US military on the people of America, and every single Republican and the majority conservative Supreme Court are letting him do it.
Let’s talk about what Trump’s ICE is doing. Share your opinions in the comments below.
So, it begins.🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘 It must 🛑 stop
Done just to show THEY have Power…no real rationale!!