Posted on 11/06/2025 12:47:48 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge in Chicago will issue an extensive injunction restricting federal agents’ use of force, saying Thursday that a top Border Patrol official leading an immigration crackdown repeatedly lied about threats posed by protesters and reporters.
The preliminary injunction detailed in court Thursday came in response to a lawsuit filed by news outlets and protesters who allege federal agents have used excessive force during the operation that has netted more than 3,000 arrests and led to heated clashes across the nation’s third-largest city and its many suburbs.
“I see little reason for the use of force that the federal agents are currently using,” said U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis. “I don’t find defendants’ version of events credible.”
Ellis said her order will prevent the “chilling of First Amendment rights” from excessive force, and among other things, will require agents to give two warnings before using riot control weapons. A written order is expected to follow.
The Chicago area crackdown, part of the Trump administration’s growing federal intervention in Democratic strongholds, has triggered a litany of court action, including forcing improvements at a federal immigration facility activists say is a de facto detention center and blocking a National Guard deployment.
Thursday’s ruling, which is expected to be appealed by President Donald Trump’s administration, refines an earlier temporary order that required agents to wear badges and banned them from using certain riot-control techniques, such as tear gas, against peaceful protesters and journalists. After repeatedly chastising federal officials for not following her previous orders, she added a requirement for body cameras.
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Yea, because the illegals are going to just stand there to be deported and the antifa assholes are going to just wave their signs...
Let’s let the pussy Chicago judge attempt the arrest and after he gets his liberal butt creamed, the real agents can get the real work done.
I’m old enough to have been fooled into believing that most judges were honest and competent, but I didn’t know much about DemocRAT judges.
"It is the policy of the Department of Justice to value and preserve human life. Officers may use only the force that is objectively reasonable to effectively gain control of an incident, while protecting the safety of the officer and others, in keeping with the standards set forth in Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S. 386 (1989). Officers may use force only when no reasonably effective, safe, and feasible alternative appears to exist and may use only the level of force that a reasonable officer on the scene would use under the same or similar circumstances."
Portland Antifa
“I don’t find defendants’ version of events credible.”
Ah yes. The brave judge living behind locked gates with armed guards knows what happens out on the streets when democrat party terrorists are attacking ICE agents.
Why would this judge thinks she has power out side her court room.
Wow I guess she thinks the juridical branch has all the power under the constitution.
From the wisdom of Roger Murdock….
And well funded by the left.
Judge Sara Ellis... born in Canada to Jamaican parents. Moved to America at age 15. No Republican filibuster to stop this rootless non-American to lord over American society.
She rules from emotions, like a British judge, not on the law. The attacks against the Border Patrol are numerous and well documented.
I think that this judge is an idiot...I watched many Youtube videos dealing with ICE agents in Chicago area...Some people throw objects at agents...Some people try to damage agents' cars...
Being "nice" does not work with the people trying to interfere with what federal agents are doing...Only thing they seem to understand is tear gas...Agents ask them not to get too close...They do not listen...Agents use tear gas...Then those "protestors" step back...
This stupid judge knows that she cannot order ICE agents to stop making arrests...Instead, she will stop agents from making arrests by making it very hard for the agents to defend themselves...
Hangin judge needs to be........
Arrest that Judge for impeding Federal operations.
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