Three hundred federal agents from ICE, Border Patrol, FBI, and ATF conducted a military raid on a residential apartment building at 7500 S. South Shore Drive in Chicago on Tuesday, Sept 30th.
Agents fast-roped down from Blackhawk helicopters onto the building’s roof. They used flash bang grenades to breach doors. The justification for this military-style assault was to disrupt “illegals” from Venezuela that they claim to be part of TDA(which has been designated as a terrorist organization).
The feds also claimed the South Shore neighborhood was “a location known to be frequented by Tren de Aragua members and their associates,” but DHS gave no evidence to support the assertion, and authorities did not confirm that any of the people arrested were members of the Venezuelan gang. Chicago Sun Times
Agents detained every single man, woman, and child in the building regardless of their immigration status. They broke down the doors of US citizens, zip-tied them, and dragged them out to waiting U-Haul vans. They presented no warrants and did not allow detained citizens to contact lawyers.
Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties.
Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours before agents finally let him go.
“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,” Johnson said. “I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.” Chicago Sun Times
Agents dragged children from their homes, naked, and zip-tied to each other. Ice dragged out NAKED CHILDREN, ZIP-TIED TO EACH OTHER, and stuffed them into waiting vans!
“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.’” ABC7
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.
“It was heartbreaking to watch,” she said. “Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.” Raw Story
Agents destroyed property, tossed the homes of these residents, and allowed their property to be stolen.
When he got home from work, Jones said he entered his unit to find all of his electronics and furniture missing, and all of his clothes and shoes thrown on the floor. Jones said he had no idea who took his belongings and hadn’t received answers from Chicago police.
“I’m pissed off,” Jones said. “I feel defeated because the authorities aren’t doing anything.”
On Wednesday, toys, shoes and food were still in piles in the building’s hallways. Property managers were seen throwing mattresses and broken doors into dumpsters. Chicago Sun Times
Our Chickens have Come Home to Roost
The raid in Chicago used the same tactics our military perfected overseas in the war on terror. Our troops would get an intel package(often wrong) for targets at XYZ location. The targets would be hit in the dead of night using overwhelming force. Everyone inside would be zip-tied and detained. They would separate the men from the women and children and drag away anyone who was suspected of being a terrorist.
When trump came into power in 2016 he changed the rules of engagement for Special Operations missions targeting these “terror cells.” These teams were now given the permission to kill every military-aged male on target regardless of whether they had a weapon or fought back in any way. Seth Harp details this in his new book “The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces.” He describes it as an assassination program.
Trump came in, in a typical Trumpian fashion, did the same thing as, as, as his predecessors, but just in a particularly gauche sort of way. You know, he also loosened the rules again. I mean, the rules around assassination are insane and most people don’t even know that the U.S. has an assassination program or that Delta Force operators are right now, as we speak, assassinating scores of people per month in places like Iraq, Syria, Somalia.
But the rules around it are, are classified, so we don’t know exactly what they are, but the best information I have is that there’s just some really fuzzy requirement that’s like if a person is found by unilaterally by JSOC or CIA analyst, pose a threat to Americans, then they’re green lit for assassination, not only them, but anyone who’s considered their financiers or facilitators or enablers. Lawfare
The feds used these exact same tactics in Chicago in the guise of fighting “illegal immigrant gang members.” Designating TDA as a terrorist organization was one of the first things trump did when he took office. January 20th executive order “Designating Cartels And Other Organizations As Foreign Terrorist Organizations And Specially Designated Global Terrorists.”
The same exact tactics. Inserting on the roof via Blackhawk helicopters. Flashbang grenades deployed against sleeping US citizens. They zip-tied every resident and dragged them out of the building and shoved them into vans. “They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van.”
This is how the regime intends to quell dissent in the homeland. This is how they intend to take care of the “homegrowns.” This is why trump signed an executive order to designated Antifa as a terrorist organization. This is why the regime shifted to the language of “radical leftist Democrats” and calling Democrats terrorists in the wake of the Charlie Kirk shooting. They are laying the base now with their language to equate anyone who opposes them as a terrorist.
They’re building the foundation so that they can use tactics like this on their political enemies and anyone who dissents or resists the regime without the pretense of “illegal immigration.”
Raise Holy Hell
We need to raise holy hell about this extreme overreach. This is a blatant violation of everyone’s 4th amendment rights.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-4/
It is not normal for police forces in a “free society” to do mass raids and round-ups in the middle of the night and then sort through the people afterwards. The agents checked the citizens for warrants after the fact!
“It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face,” Fisher said. “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.”
Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released. ABC7
That’s not how anything works! The fourth amendment specifically protects all people, regardless of citizenship status, from unreasonable searches and seizures. We are protected in our homes. Police cannot break down your door, zip tie you, and hold you in the back of a van while they determine whether or not you’ve committed a crime that they can hold you on! That’s not how any of this works!
To legally enter your home they must first have a warrant signed by a judge after providing evidence of probable cause that you’ve committed a crime. Only then can they come break down your door and arrest you. This is blatantly unconstitutional.
Everyone involved in this raid should be put in prison for breaking our laws and willfully violating the constitutional rights of everyone in that building.
This should be headline news on every major outlet across the US, yet not one single national news organization has picked it up! Not one!
Help spread this news to every person you know, this is the most egregious overstep I have seen to date and this cannot be allowed to be normalized. This is dystopian in the extreme.
FIGHT BACK!!!!!!!
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