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D. Spaulding

(410 posts)
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 11:28 AM Thursday

See the crap they're pulling in Chicago, it's frightening; but no one will pay attention [View all]

because the Media have decided the shutdown will be the topic of the day, and everyday;

"Just hours after President Donald Trump said U.S. soldiers should use America's cities as “training grounds,” federal law enforcement officials on Tuesday night descended upon an apartment complex in Chicago where witnesses say they broke down residents’ doors, smashed furniture and belongings, and dragged dozens of them — including children — into U-Haul vans.

Local resident Rodrick Johnson, who lives in the building raided by Immigration and Customers Enforcement (ICE) agents, told the Chicago Sun-Times that federal officials broke down his door, put him in zip ties, and kept him detained outside the building for three hours before letting him go.

https://www.rawstory.com/it-was-heartbreaking-naked-zip-tied-children-dragged-from-homes-in-surreal-ice-raid/

“I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up,” he told the paper. “I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.”

Pertissue Fisher, who also lives in the building, backed up Johnson’s account and said that agents forcibly removed all residents from their homes regardless of their legal status.

“They just treated us like we were nothing,” she told local news station ABC 7 Chicago. “They, like, piling us all up in the back on the other side, and it wasn’t no room to move nowhere.”

Ebony Sweets Watson, who lives across the street from the raided building, told the Chicago Sun-Times that she saw children, some of whom weren’t even wearing clothes, dragged out of the building by ICE agents and then placed into U-Haul vans."

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I wonder if any of them asked to see their warrants? Bev54 Thursday #1
"I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one." live love laugh Thursday #2
Maybe read the post you're responding to? intheflow Thursday #4
Wouldn't have helped. ICE (FBI was present) were smashing and chainsawing doors. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Thursday #5
it's getting a lot of play in the media here. mopinko Thursday #3
Lot of media play in the foreign press as well... hunter Thursday #6
WE ARE AT WAR...with our own government. MiHale Thursday #7
People did nothing angrychair Thursday #8
what do you do against the U.S. LyfeTimeDem Thursday #26
Trump WANTS the people to physically attack ICE Martin Eden Friday #49
Ok, so what's your suggestion... Wuddles440 Friday #53
MASSIVE peaceful protests, and contact our elected officials. Martin Eden Friday #56
Although I'm increasingly pessimistic that such actions... Wuddles440 Friday #61
I appreciate your respectful reply Martin Eden Friday #62
I know you mean well angrychair Friday #54
You have not said what you would have done. Martin Eden Friday #55
What I would angrychair Friday #57
You cast aspersions on the neighbors for doing nothing Martin Eden Friday #58
I would have resisted angrychair Friday #59
I spelled out the alternative in post #56 Martin Eden Friday #60
hmmm.....wonder what we could have done differently? LyfeTimeDem Thursday #9
I wondered how many of the accosted or onlookers eligible voted for this or voted by default of not voting. live love laugh Thursday #11
and how many protest voted against LyfeTimeDem Thursday #18
too many. mopinko Thursday #19
You mean the children? yardwork Friday #50
There should be lawyers flooding the zone with lawsuits over this. These should be slam-dunk cases. Midnight Writer Thursday #10
there have been a lot of lawyers mopinko Thursday #17
a lot of them are now under contract LyfeTimeDem Thursday #20
Thought Pritzker was going to kick them out leftstreet Thursday #12
he never said that. mopinko Thursday #15
Right.....short of declaring Secession LyfeTimeDem Thursday #21
Ask other Govs to send NG troops leftstreet Thursday #33
Blue State Governors aren't LyfeTimeDem Thursday #34
You can't kick them out Jilly_in_VA Thursday #29
It's ethnic cleansing, not an immigration crackdown. LuvLoogie Thursday #13
Confederacy 2.0 LyfeTimeDem Thursday #23
All the Northern states did ethnic cleansing, too. LuvLoogie Thursday #35
oh for god sakes LyfeTimeDem Thursday #36
The indigenous were driven out of their land everywhere LuvLoogie Thursday #37
and wtf does that have to do with this? LyfeTimeDem Thursday #38
It's happening "now" because LuvLoogie Thursday #39
Post removed Post removed Thursday #40
LOL what is nihilistic about reminding LuvLoogie Thursday #41
Look outside your bubble LyfeTimeDem Thursday #42
You seem surprised by all this. I don't know why. LuvLoogie Friday #43
Im done with you LyfeTimeDem Friday #45
You're confused by my demeanor. Of course it can get worse. LuvLoogie Friday #48
Nazi Germany people Thursday #14
Exactly....1933 Germany so far LyfeTimeDem Thursday #24
The NAZI fuckers are testing limits. bluestarone Thursday #16
These psychopaths need to be removed from their ivory towers now! Initech Thursday #22
and HOW do we do that... LyfeTimeDem Thursday #25
#trump could Stop this cruelty at any time but he chooses NOT to stop it. riversedge Thursday #27
Stop it?? It's what HE WANTS them to do. B.See Friday #44
Start arresting rhem moonshinegnomie Thursday #28
And they want us to stop calling them Nazis? Jilly_in_VA Thursday #30
Tell me how this is not kidnapping. Thunderbeast Thursday #31
Better that ninety-nine thousand innocent people are incarcerated unjustly than one guilty one go free. twodogsbarking Thursday #32
What do you call this? I call it people paying attention. Have you looked at Chicago newspapers? Hekate Friday #46
It's all bullshit theater for bullshit cable news programs. Initech Friday #47
Evil Republican thuggery Champp Friday #51
As far as I know only Chris Hayes covered this yorkster Friday #52
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