Pertissue Fisher, who lives in the building, told ABC7 Chicago that ICE agents forced everyone out and only asked questions later. Fisher said she was handcuffed and questioned before being released at around 3 a.m. The officers, she noted, “just treated us like we were nothing,” and, “It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face.”
Another ABC7 interviewee ducked upon hearing flash bangs denote, and was then distressed by the sight of children detained. “They was bringing the kids down too, had them zip-tied to each other,” she said. “That’s all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where’s the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, ‘f*** them kids.’”
A witness of the same name told the Chicago Sun-Times it was “heartbreaking” to see “kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers.”
Witness Darrell Ballard recalled seeing the agents use a “big, 15-inch chain saw” to cut down a fence. “We’re under siege,” he said. “We’re being invaded by our own military.”
The problem is that you feel obligated to push one of the buttons. I feel like I’ve explained myself clearly and concisely so I guess that’s all I can do.
Hope I gave some folks food for thought but I will continue my real contribution in the streets and I encourage anyone who can, especially if you’re not on a visa and are white, to stand with us. I was horrified as a kid learning how cowardly most germans were during the holocaust both with their voting and with their capitulation (and, often, complicity) when their neighbors were being rounded up.
people like the ones you’re responding will never accept the reality that they’re part of the problem and trying to explain it to them should only be done if you’re getting something out of it; like spotting holes in your own political theory.
they’re such an overwhelming majority that their views will self perpetuate until the system become untenable; you have to keep your eye on the long game.
I know, I know:( As a personal principle I try to give people the benefit of the doubt when I have the energy, but I acknowledge this is out of blind hope.