The horrifically violent video on the front page of this morning's NYT -- one block form my home of 33 years. . . should be plenty of new evidence, for the finding of contempt. Bovino was on the scene, and his ICE chopper was circling about 500 years above for over an hour aftewards. The young whyte people dragged from their car and beaten were US Citizens, simply following ICE into my town, when the trailing gray ICE SUV slammed on the breaks immediately after crossing a green light, northbound on Asbury. That caused the red sedan to rear-end into the ICE vehicle. Local response teams were already following them on bikes, and blowing whistles. Following / observing law enforcement is simply NOT unlawful.
As the video indicates, an ICE agent leveled his service pistol at a whyte bystander over 15 feet away (yes, I was there -- not five feet away as it happened), and at another point dragged both of the male and female witnesses across the pavement. . . kneeling on both of them, prone on the pavement repeatedly. The young male suffered a badly cut eye, from punches ICE agents rained down on him. This is plenty of cannon fire, to seek a contempt order from USDC Judge Sara L. Ellis. Here's the state of the play, in the Seventh Cir. -- and a bit from the NYT reporting:
. . .Evanston was especially roiled by the presence of Border Patrol agents on Friday. . . .
Bystanders said that a motorist had been following federal agents along a major street when the agents stopped short, causing the car to crash into it. . . .
Videos shared with the The New York Times show the agents tackling the driver, a woman, to the ground.
Allie Harned, a social worker at Chute Middle School a block away, said she heard the crash and came running.
“When I came upon her, they were tearing her out of the car,” Ms. Harned said. “She was on the ground. Her shoes fell off.”
After bystanders began yelling and blowing whistles, the agents detained at least one person in the group, according to the Evanston police.
One officer briefly pulled a weapon and aimed it at the crowd, one of the videos shows. Ms. Harned said she screamed and ran. . . .
For the record, again -- both of the people in the red sedan were/are US Citizens -- exercising their rights to monitor law enforement operations under the Chicago Welcoming Ordinance -- and the First Amendment. Onward, to contempt -- and a future jailing -- for Bovino.
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