truly disturbing video from palatine.

agents appear to drive onto a sidewalk in pursuit. as they wrestle to put a young person in the car, the driver starts to pull away. the person recording shouts, “they’re tasing him!”

unclear if they actually used the taser, but you can hear it charging up.

in chicago’s austin neighborhood around 8 am:

this horrific video posted to social media shows at least four feds open a person’s car door, then handcuff and abduct them from laramie avenue.

while most eyes were on greg bovino’s early morning photo op in downtown chicago this was happening 15 miles west in suburban melrose park:

video captured around 6:30 am shows a team in four vehicles detaining a person on lake street. one agent is seen rifling through the person’s car.

pilsen resident ellie praises the community response to border patrol’s terror.

“if they wanna go after working people, working people can shut this shit down,” they say.

elias cepeda with pilsen defense and access slams cpd for helping federal
agents abduct chicagoans and politicians like mayor brandon johnson who are ultimately in charge.

chicago alder byron sigcho-lopez calls yesterday’s events “shameful” but also an example of the strength of our community.

he ties the fbi’s cooperation in trump’s mass deportation scheme to their murder of black panther leader fred hampton.

happening now:

community members are gathering at the chicago fbi field office to demand ice and border patrol agents leave the city and stop terrorizing residents.

yesterday, the fbi and other feds helped greg bovino and a caravan of border patrol agents ravage little village and cicero.

after an hour-long protest in silence outside the broadview ice detention center, the handmaids end their demonstration and march away.

there are maybe 25-50 folks left in the “free speech” zone.

the current scene.

state/local police have shut down one of the “free speech” zones and are requiring all protesters to stand on the east side of beach.

the street is entirely closed to traffic yet cops arrest anyone who stands on the concrete barriers or steps into the street.

so many cops.

outside the ice detention center in broadview, illinois:

the illinois handmaids and the democratic women of cook county are demonstrating against the kidnapping of community members by federal agents.

in waukegan about an hour ago:

greg bovino among the convoy of feds crawling through the area, per this facebook video. at least a few abductions already.

bovino also spotted earlier today in nearby north chicago, where naval base great lakes is located.

federal agents are back in the skokie/evanston area this morning.

this video, posted to facebook about 10 minutes ago, shows federal agents driving through the williamsburg village subdivision amid construction vehicles parked along the road.

lots of residents out with whistles.