Pertissue Fisher came out to the hallway of her apartment in her nightgown to find armed agents yelling “police.”

She had a gun pointed in her face.
She was handcuffed.
She was held until 3 AM before being released.

Fisher isn’t suspected of any crime.
She lives in the building.

Alicia Brooks stuck her key in her door to enter her own apartment.

An officer grabbed her.

“What’s going on? What’s going on?”
He never told her.

She was detained.

Every resident in the building was detained.

Not just suspected gang members. Everyone. Adults. Children.

Witnesses report children zip-tied together, crying, terrified.

One federal officer, when asked about the children, reportedly said: “Fuck them kids.”

Marlee Sanders watched as agents separated detainees by race.

“They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van.”

Thirty-seven people were arrested.

How many innocent residents were held at gunpoint, handcuffed, detained for hours without probable cause?

Federal authorities won’t say.

Residents estimate 30-40 additional people were held and released.

Blackhawk helicopters.
Flash bangs.
A chainsaw to cut through fencing.
Doors blown off hinges.
Holes in walls.

An entire building’s worth of American citizens treated as enemy combatants in a war zone.

This happened.
In Chicago.
In America.
This week.
And we’ve already moved on to the next story.
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/03/chicago-and-the-end-of-american-liberty/

"Blackhawk helicopters. Flash bangs. A chainsaw to cut through fencing. Doors blown off hinges. Holes in walls. An entire building’s worth of American citizens treated as enemy combatants in a war zone.

This happened. In Chicago. In America. This week.

And we’ve already moved on to the next story."
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-sufferable-evil

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