Children tear-gassed. Teenagers tackled to the ground. Bellingcat analysed footage of clashes between federal officers and civilians after a judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics in Illinois: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10/31/illinois-immigration-protests/?utm_source=mastodon
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Watch the videos.
Make up your own mind.
Who is telling you lies.
The witnesses or the armed authorities? In the video.
I put a ? There because nobody is sure who these people are…
No badges, no name tags, no identification to what agency they really are from. #america #gestapo #thugs #ice
Trying to invite violence. By committing violence. Innocents being assaulted. #Trump desperately wants to invoke the insurrection act by having thugs do violence to citizens. #american #justice
Just like when a pig sleeps in a palace, it becomes a pigsty, when the line is crossed in policing, it becomes “normal”.
@Bellingcat Armed, masked, poorly trained, overly aggressive persons regarding civilians their enemies they can mistreat, injure & deprive of their constitutionally guaranteed rights do never belong in any public office, paid for by American taxpayers!
@Bellingcat if some unmarked magat pulls on me, when is it okay to pull my own weapon in self defense? Asking for a friend.
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