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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15m

State troopers carrying one of the protesters they just tackled.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 18m

Again today, local police outside Broadview just aggressively arrested more protesters. Tough to tell exactly how many, but looks like 3-4 people were just detained.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1h

Request denied/unanswered.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1h

Father Larry attempts to walk toward the detention center.

ISP prevent people from moving forward. Lieutenant Col Bradley says he's making a call and dialing the ICE facility, but also says people may be waiting a while.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1h

Religious leaders here are not mincing words. They have repeatedly used the word "evil."

"Detention and deportation are acts that wound the body of Christ, and deny the dignity of God's people."

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2h

Music now.

Grim reminder: people held inside the detention center have reported it's impossible to hear much coming from outside.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2h

A group of hundreds of faith in coalition who started at a Maywood church just arrived at the detention center for a eucharistic procession.

They want to offer communion to detainees inside, but won't be able to get past the barricades and fence on Beach Street.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2h

Despite the ongoing horrors, protesters have been met with pretty much non-stop honks of support from drivers and truckers passing by this morning.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2h

This one includes a sheriff's van from Indiana—not uncommon to see sheriff's departments from Indiana and Wisconsin assisting with transport here.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2h

People here have been periodically begging local police to stop them, to "do something." One protester is crying.

Another caravan (including the ICE SUV) departs. Seeing more Border Patrol inside.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2h

A van with visible captives inside just returned.

"Those are people!" someone shouts.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3h

More vehicles with masked Border Patrol agents inside departing. It's a busy, busy morning for the secret police.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3h

While this is going on here, ICE has been spotted on foot + in vehicles across SW + NW sides of Chicago. Can't verify reports rn, but also presuming suburbs. Yesterday was brutal. It's not lost on us they have more agents free for weekend kidnappings now with their facility secured by state police.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3h

Lots of fed traffic leaving Broadview this morning.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3h

A van full of masked feds leaves the ISP protected lot to many shouts of "fuck you."

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3h

In Broadview, IL this morning outside the Chicago area ICE detention center—

Just rolled up, immediately saw ISP/CCSO arresting a protester w/ a guitar (he appears to be in good spirits over it).

ICE vehicles have been coming and going, including a large bus driven by a masked agent seen earlier.

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 5h

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5h

We noticed this yes, but did not have a chance to ask for more details. Entirely fucked

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h

Now is probably a good time to note "disorderly conduct" has a broad definition and there's little stopping a cop from framing your conduct as disorderly at a protest (which they need to do in order to disperse people). Whether charges stick is a different story. But we know how this typically goes.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h

Broadview police chief Mills and ISP were examining some documents last night before targeting one protester in a small, completely non-disruptive crowd for a bag search. Looks like they're brushing up on ~policy~

Chapter 10: disorderly conduct

Police chiefs meeting

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 6h

It was easy to presume a lot of this from the course of events but it’s still interesting that the Illinois Attorney General specifically cleared any TRUST Act concerns for police doing protest control work in Broadview.

Alex Harrison @alexhairysun.bsky.social · 20h

There's much more in that NIPAS letter, but moving on: the other letter is the one ref'd by Kreis, sent to NIPAS' attorney by Christopher Wells of the ILAG office, where Wells confirms the actions of the Unified Command (and thus NIPAS) are "permissible under Illinois law, including the TRUST Act".

A letter dated October 3, 2025, with the letterhead of the Illinois Attorney General's Office addressed to Benjamin Schuster, an attorney at Elrod Friedman LLP and the legal counsel for NIPAS. The subject line is "Re: October 3 NIPAS Request for Assistance in Broadview, Illinois. The letter reads:

Dear Mr. Schuster:

I write at your request as a follow up to our conversation this morning and to my prior communications with member agencies and leadership of the Northern Illinois Police Alarm System (NIPAS).

I have enclosed an October 2, 2025 press release issued by the Illinois State Police ("ISP"), the Cook County Sheriff's Office, and the Broadview Police Department, among other agencies. As described in the attached, these agencies have established a unified command to coordinate public safety measures in Broadview in order to "protect the health and safety of all individuals, including nearby Broadview residents and businesses, and enable the peaceful expression of First Amendment rights." The unified command has established "designated areas" in Broadview "where people can safely exercise their rights, which will support the safety of the public, and ensure vehicular traffic can safely access the roads in the area.”

Please know that the Illinois Attorney General's Office has been in consultation with ISP regarding the establishment and purpose of the unified command. The type of law enforcement activities referenced in the attached are permissible under Illinois law, including the TRUST Act, and participation by NIPAS agencies in such activities would similarly comport with Illinois law.

Respectfully,

Christopher G. Wells
Chief, Public Interest Division
Office of the Illinois Attorney General

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 20h

Very serious person Andy Ngo has now been reduced to pleading with his audience to please please PLEASE take the dancing antifa muppets seriously

Andy ngo mad at Portland street animals

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 19h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 17h

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