‘State-sponsored terror’ in Chicago

[UltraBudgie]

On Halloween, ‘state-sponsored terror’ in Chicago and the north suburbs

In Albany Park, they fired pepper-spray balls to disperse an angry crowd and arrested two U.S. citizens. In Evanston, one repeatedly pointed his weapon at protesters while another knelt on a man’s back and punched him in the head.

They grabbed workers at an apartment complex in Hoffman Estates, landscapers, house painters and laborers in Edison Park, Skokie and Niles.

Despite pleas from Gov. JB Pritzker to pause federal immigration enforcement operations while children celebrate Halloween, teams of Border Patrol agents — including one led by Cmdr. Greg Bovino — tore through Chicago’s Northwest Side and nearby suburbs Friday, sparking violent clashes with community members throughout the day.

In a statement provided late Friday, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesman said five Mexican citizens were detained in the raids. None of them had violent criminal histories, according to the information released by DHS.

Three U.S. citizens were also arrested for “violence against law enforcement,” the statement said.

One of the first reported encounters took place around 9:30 a.m. in Albany Park. There, witnesses spotted three vehicles carrying federal agents along West Lawrence Avenue near North Kedzie Avenue.

A crowd quickly gathered on the street, drawn by the sound of car horns and whistles — what’s now become a familiar soundtrack of public resistance in the Chicago area to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Operation Midway Blitz.

Neighborhood resident Olivia Dunn and Alivia Olson said they were walking back from a coffee shop when they saw three agents, two clad in camouflage, handcuffing their friend, a U.S. citizen who lives in the same building as them. Video from the scene shows their friend face down on the pavement in front of a business on Lawrence. One agent is heard in the video telling both women that their friend assaulted a federal agent.

The video goes on to show their friend being led into the back of a black truck with a Missouri license plate.

“It’s horrible,” a visibly shaken Dunn said of her friend’s arrest.

Moments after their friend was detained, federal agents arrested a second man, who witnesses said had tried to intervene as agents were trying to yank someone from a vehicle that pulled out of an alley and into their path.

Video from the scene shows a dark-colored Toyota Prius trying to turn onto Lawrence from an alley. The Prius appears to be unable to leave amid the crowd of people. An agent approaches and opens the driver’s side door. A woman in pink tries to step between the agent and the driver.

As an agent tries to move her, she leans down into the open driver’s seat while 33rd Ward Ald. Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez opens the passenger side door and, with a second person, pulls the woman free from the agent’s grasp.

The agents continue trying to grab someone from the Prius. One stops to shove Rodriguez-Sanchez as she approaches them, then a man steps in front of the driver’s open door. The agent turns back, grabs the man around his shoulders and slams him to the street.

Someone in the crowd screams: “Don’t (expletive) touch him!”

A masked agent is seen holding what looks to be a pepper ball gun. Multiple white chalk-like marks were visible on the street where witnesses said agents fired pepper balls toward the ground to disperse the crowd. Video shows the Toyota driving from the scene.

Chicago police arrived and helped clear a path for agents to leave, drawing sharp rebukes from those gathered on the sidewalk.

It’s unclear why agents were in the neighborhood. A Border Patrol spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

After agents and police left, Rodriguez-Sanchez talked about the arrests on social media, saying she understood both men arrested by agents were U.S. citizens.

“They came to terrorize our community,” she said of the federal agents, before thanking the community’s response.

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https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/3...-evanston/

Turns out, it was locals assaulting officers and interfering with law enforcement.

And it looks like Chicago government officials are directly interfering, too (see highlighted section). Will they arrest her, I hope?

I'm getting real fed up with slanted news coverage like this, which is having the obvious and deliberate effect of stoking anti-government violence. At what point will something be done about it?

[David64]

People need to learn that you DO have a Right to film the police during their operations.

You Do have the Right to protest what they're doing.

YOU DO NOT have the Right to physically interfere with them.

The rules of FAFO apply and if you ignore that rule because you think you're special, face meet pavement.

[UltraBudgie]

YOU DO NOT have the Right to physically interfere with them.

Do you have the right to follow them around and blow whistles and honk horns? That's what she's been doing.

ICE Tells North Side Alderperson To Back Off As She Warns Neighbors About Immigration Agents
October 21, 2025

Masked agents approached Ald. Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez and her chief of staff in an alley, where they were told they were impeding ICE activities. A state representative said he was also approached by agents while alerting residents to ICE’s presence Tuesday.

ALBANY PARK — Ald. Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez (33rd) is speaking out after federal immigration authorities led her into an alley and warned her that she was “impeding” them in Albany Park Tuesday morning, she told Block Club.

Rodriguez-Sanchez was in a car following agents driving in a black SUV near the intersection of Avers and Leland avenues around 10:35 a.m. Tuesday. The alderwoman was in her car with her Chief Of Staff Veronica Tirado-Mercado honking horns and blowing whistles to alert neighbors to the presence of federal agents, she said.

“They went into an alley because they wanted to get us secluded,” Rodriguez-Sanchez said. “And I followed them in, and that’s when they came out of the car and gave me a warning. Afterwards, we kept following them. But we lost them at some point going south on Pulaski.”

Rodriguez-Sanchez, whose ward includes parts of Albany Park, Irving Park, Avondale and Ravenswood Manor, said three federal agents wearing camouflage uniforms and masks approached her. The incident was also recorded.

One of the federal agents tells Rodriguez-Sanchez that “911 is going to be notified,” according to the video.

“I’m giving you your warning, okay?,” the agent said, according to the video.

When Rodriguez-Sanchez asks what the warning is for, the agent said “impeding in our operation, ma’am.”

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https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/21/...on-agents/

[putnam6]

Ok, drive around, follow fire trucks and EMTs, honk your horn, blow your whistle. Guarantee they suggest you quit.

You are impeding one person from doing their job... making a dangerous job more dangerous, only a self-centered paranoid overreactive azzhats would think this is OK.

Follow the mailman around, honking your horn and whistling, see how long that shit lasts. FFS 

We've lost our decorum, tact, and stoicism when a certain generation doesn't get thier way, and we are now a much lesser nation because of it.

There are ways to change this legally and non-disruptively in an election.

But for now, an illegal person is illegal and our lawfully employed officers have the right to do thier job without public interference.