All Hell Breaks Loose as Trump Invasion Backfires

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2:37Ben Meiselas:Peaceful protesters under attack by chemical warfare being inflicted on them by the Trump regime. ICE Gestapo raiding Walmarts, raiding grocery stores, beating people, attacking people. You see people running out with baby strollers, trying to avoid the chemical weapons being thrown at them by Trump's ICE Gestapo. Trump is trying to find any pretext to justify the military invasion of Chicago. He's ratcheting things up. We have this caught on tape, but you all have to see what's happening right now. And you need to share these videos with everybody you know. You need to know that there is a war taking place inside the United States, and it's coming from Donald Trump invading blue states and blue cities with ICE Gestapo, military weapons, Black Hawk helicopters, destroying the communities that just want to live in peace, damn it.

3:33Ben Meiselas:And Trump's the one who's creating the war zone. People are just trying to live in peace, and this is what the Trump regime is doing. It's despicable as Governor Pritzker posts Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents. They're going through the streets and they're shooting pepper spray bullets at people and punching people and knocking people off and ramming their cars into people. As Governor Pritzker says, ice is an out of control danger to our peaceful communities. These images from the Sun Times today speak for themselves. Look at these image, image, image, image, image.

4:10Ben Meiselas:Look at these images right here. And this, the community just trying to live peacefully. You have ice shooting tear gas toward a father carrying an infant still in the baby carrier. You have 13 Chicago police officers were tear gassed as they were there just to try to deescalate ice, trying to attack the community. Their infants getting sick from the chemical agents. Watch what happens in this community. Watch this is happening on the southeast side of Chicago. Play this clip.

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5:24I'm not, I'm not, I'm not. Where is she? I don't know.

5:28Ben Meiselas:Then you have ICE raiding a Walgreens in Chicago. You'll see this older white ICE Gestapo agent tackling a black man to the ground, arresting him for running. He's a US citizen. He's American, a woman yells, that's my brother-in-law. The store location was forced to close because of everything with ICE, manager told the rest of the customers. This is crazy, he said. They're closed for ICE stuff going on as ICE is declaring war on a freaking Walgreens at 106th, 106th in Chicago. What the hell's going on? Here, play this clip.

6:13Get the fuck out of here. Get the fuck out of here.

6:22He's a citizen. He's a citizen. He's a citizen. He's a citizen. That's my brother-in-law. You don't know what's going on, so get the fuck back.

6:47Ben Meiselas:And then there was this powerful moment yesterday in the New York federal courthouse, 26 federal plaza immigration court. So these ICE agents separate a family. Our friend Sandy Bakem is there and she's been recording footage that she's allowed us to share with the Midas Touch Network. Thank you, Sandy. Sandy's a great video journalist. Give her a shout out, support her work. We at the Midas Touch Network want to support video journalists like that on the ground doing this work. So great work, Sandy. She gave us this video. This is at 26 Federal Plaza. ICE agents separate the family. And then this lady who was family member was just kidnapped by ICE Gestapo.

7:31Ben Meiselas:She stands up to ICE and she's like, I'm not scared of you. What the hell are you doing here? She's like, you're weak. Here, play this clip. This woman's a hero. Here, play this clip. Bitch, you stupid bitch. That's why y 'all are a bunch of fucking criminals. I wish you would. I wish the fuck you would. Yes, the fuck we his family. You're all a bunch of big pussies. Who the fuck is it? We don't like none of you. You okay? No, how can I be okay? You okay? Are you okay? Are you okay? I look like I'm okay? Don't come up in my face here because I hit hard. Fuck wrong with y 'all. Try it. I wish you would.

8:08Try it. You try me and see what the fuck happened. No, no, we angry. All of us angry out here. So don't think it's y 'all alone. You, who you telling get out of here? Why you telling me get out of here? You ask me a question and I'm answering you. Fuck wrong with you. Oh, stupid ass bitch. That's why you gotta hide your face. You wanna go to jail? You told me no more. I have to tell you anything. You wanna go to jail? Fuck wrong with you. You wanna hit me? Hit me, bitch. He ain't got me. Nobody's scared of you. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Come, come, come. I got rings on you. Here you go. You a pussy, bitch.

8:44You a pussy, bitch. That's why your kids that don't like you. And your wife is fucking on you. That's why you gotta hide your face. My face ain't hit us, bitch. I'm American, you stupid bitch. Fuck wrong with y 'all. You can take me too high. I'm sure I'm in the zoo in your face. You know what to do? No, no, no. You want me? Fuck wrong with y 'all. Fuck all of you. Put that on the news. Let Trump see it. I'm just a fucking rat. Does listening to the craziness of the world just make you want to cuddle up on the couch with your cat? Well, me too. This podcast is sponsored by Smalls. If you're a listener of this show, you know that my cat cannot live without Smalls.

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10:58Ben Meiselas:Now, this was taken by Laura Rodriguez-Presa over at the Chicago Tribune. This was a scene from yesterday's ICE operations in Chicago as well. Another angle of what went down. Play this clip.

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12:08Ben Meiselas:By the way, you can see the man right there with the holding the baby as he's being gassed by ICE. I mean, this is what's happening in the United States of America. While Donald Trump's saying, oh, I want a Nobel, I want a Nobel peace prize. You are inflicting war inside the United States with a personal military police force. How am I going to explain this to my baby girls one years old right now? He meant it. How am I going to explain it to her when she's older? What? I'm just happy that she'll not hopefully not remember any of this stuff that's going on. take a look at this scene right here as ICE agents.

12:47Ben Meiselas:Anybody who records them they go after, play this clip. You're going to be arrested, okay? If you've been doing that, I'm going to arrest you. You understand? You understand? You're going to be arrested. You've been warned. You have been warned, okay? You're impeding. We're going to arrest you for impeding.

13:18Ben Meiselas:Here's another video clip. This one's activity in Rogers Park, Edgewater. Play this clip. This is a warning. When we leave, and if you keep following us, we will place you under arrest for impeding operations and telling us them. I am warning you. I am letting you know, okay? And you can feel me saying that. I'm filming you right now talking to you. Why don't you take off your mask? Because I don't want COVID. That's because of COVID. Can we see badge numbers? November 5-3. Okay, let's go. Everyone's butt bad news. No, no. I'm going to tell you right now. You need to leave and quit following us or we're going to yank you out of this car.

13:51Both of you. Okay? That's correct. Okay. Okay. But you understand my warning, right? No, I don't. What do you need me to explain? I need you to get the fuck out of this neighborhood. No, no, no. That's not going to happen.

14:01Ben Meiselas:We're doing operations here, ma 'am. And that's the problem. I don't care. Are you saying that right now? What you just said is proof that you're impeding our operations. Okay. So do you want me to yank you out of this car? but you need to quit telling us okay we are not leaving

14:18we're filming you too yeah okay yeah likewise

14:32Watch out, hey sir, he's leaving. Hey, whoa, hey! Whoa, why are we pointing guns at people?

14:56You guys okay? Yeah, we're fine. We're just following them for like 20 minutes.

15:05Ben Meiselas:And this is what it looks like. If you're driving in Chicago, you'll just see ICE agents kidnapping people on the ground, beating them on the floor, and also shooting chemical agents, pepper spray bullets at people. Play this clip.

15:41Ben Meiselas:And then finally, I want to show you this clip right here from the local media network. So ICE is setting up raids outside Catholic churches. The priests have to give special warnings during mass because the church is now being swarmed by ICE agents because they know that immigrants want to go there to pray and be there to, in order to, you know, because they're religious people. And now this is what's going down. I mean, how despicable. Play this clip. In Rogers Park, the presence of federal agents outside of a local church brought out many in the community determined to keep parishioners safe.

16:20It was just after 8.30 this morning when Julie looked out her Rogers Park window to see this. Immigration enforcement agents interrogating a man stopped right in front of St. Jerome Catholic Church. I think they've been casing the church. I mean, the mass times are down. I think that they've been casing the church. There was somebody up the street up there the other day that got picked up. They're in this neighborhood for a reason. With a Spanish language mass going on at that hour, Julie and her partner alerted the priest, along with several others in the neighborhood, who took it upon themselves to make sure people were able to leave the church safely.

16:56I felt really badly for them. I mean, they were inside, scared to come out, and I can understand why. She and others were back again for this evening's bilingual mass. The goal here is not to create any conflict, but actually to create a safe space. The parishioners telling us they're unnerved, and not just because of what happened today. Right now, everybody doesn't want to come out because you don't want to be deported. The Archdiocese tonight did not comment on the incident, but on CNN, Cardinal Blaise Cupich spoke of the ongoing raids. Yes, we surely have the need for a state to provide safety for people and also secure its borders.

17:41But let's not forget that human dignity also has to be preserved. Many of these people who don't have documents have been working here for a long time and contributing to our society.

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