"Fucking Nazi little shit."

After crashing, this agent sprints into a nearby Walgreens with his gun out, pointing it at people in the store as he looks for the passenger of the vehicle he and fellow agents hit.

The customers berate the agents.

Just before the crash, you can hear the agents driving so fast that their tires squeal around many turns. One agent grabs spike strips while the driver asks to try a pit maneuver despite lacking certification.

New body camera video from the Trump admin's immigration crackdown in Chicago includes scenes from a car chase and crash in a residential neighborhood.

Agents smash into the back of another car so hard their airbags go off. They immediately jump out with guns drawn.

Incompetence from immigration agents comes up several times in this newly released Midway Blitz body camera video, like in this clip where an agent struggles for the better part of a minute to pull the pin on a stinger grenade before giving up.

Later in this same video, you can hear Bovino and another agent talk about how their gas masks didn't fit properly, so they effectively tear-gassed themselves.

Minutes later, this order led directly to protesters and press being tear-gassed by federal agents, including @statuscoupnews.bsky.social photojournalist Jon Farina. This body cam shows agents shoving two protesters down before helping them back up.

"It's all about arresting people."

Newly released body camera video from immigration agents in Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago shows Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino ordering a crackdown on peaceful protesters outside of the Broadview, IL, ICE detention facility on Sept 27.

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Border Patrol agents boxed in and arrested this woman on Chicago’s west side. Agents told me she was arrested for “impeding” but would not say how.

Audio removed where she yells her mom’s full name and phone number to protesters nearby. Story to come for @statuscoupnews.bsky.social

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Boarder Patrol agents boxed in and arrested this woman on Chicago’s west side. Agents told me she was arrested for “impeding” but would not say how.

Audio removed where she yells her mom’s full name and phone number to protesters nearby. Story to come for @statuscoupnews.bsky.social

Today I interviewed Sergio Martinez in a Chicago suburb. He says he voted for Donald Trump.

And then last week ... his brother was abducted by federal agents.

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This morning in Addison, IL, masked federal agents broke a car window. Witnesses said the agents never showed a warrant, handcuffed three people, and took a husband and wife. The couple’s family say they have lived here for decades. Story coming soon for @statuscoupnews.bsky.social

After a couple of weeks juggling a newborn and covering the occupation of Chicago, I let myself touch grass today. Highly recommend.

A bus with bars in the windows just left the ICE detention facility in Broadview, Illinois. People were inside.

This truly bizarre. The Village of Broadview is one step removed from selling tickets for the right to protest ICE.