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Chuck Darwin
@cdarwin@c.im  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

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/

Techdirt

Chicago And The End Of American Liberty.

Around 10 PM on Monday, September 30th, 2025, federal agents surrounded an apartment building in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood. ICE, Border Patrol, FBI, ATF—a multi-agency operation targeting …
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mekka okereke :verified:
@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io replied  ·  activity timestamp 15 hours ago

@cdarwin

I agree that this is terrible. But...

🤔 They did this to a few apartment buildings. 40 people. And folks are rightfully upset about that. But... 10 times more people than 40 people, would be 400 people.

10 times that, would be 4000 people.

10 times that again, would be 40,000 people.

10 times that again, would be 400,000 people.

6 times that, would be about 2.4 million people. That's about how many Black non-Hispanic, and Afro latino people live in New York City. About half of them are men and boys. Around a million people.

90% of those Black men and boys in New York City have been "stopped and frisked." 90%. Not a typo. Nine in 10.

Another 90% stat: In some years, NYPD does ~700,000 stop and frisks. Over 90% of the people stopped and frisked, are Black. So why is the cumulative percent of Black men stopped and frisked not more than 90%? Because some of those 700K stops are for women. And some lucky Black men get stopped and frisked 5, 10, 15 times a year.

If you ask a Black person in the US what a "ghetto bird" is, they'll tell you that it's a Blackhawk helicopter that heavily militarized police jump out of, to harass and shoot Black people. There have been rap songs about this since the 80s.

Here's a challenge: find an adult Black man that has spent any significant time in New York as a teenager, that *hasn't* ever been detained by a cop with a gun. This isn't rhetorical, and it's not a trick question. It is possible to find! A decent percent of Black men in New York have avoided this! About 10%!

And ICE detention is not nearly as bad as pre-trial detention at city or county jail. It is not remotely close.

[CW: official NYC video on staying safe from assault in jail]
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8zYBmsP6fes

So no, fascism has not "come to the US." It's always been here. It's just recently expanded its target beyond innocent Black people.

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Bjørnar (he/him)
@btuftin@social.coop replied  ·  activity timestamp 16 hours ago

@cdarwin #KavanaughStop

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