Independent, UK - A federal judge is banning immigration authorities from firing tear gas and using other riot weapons during protests in Chicago after video evidence and courtroom testimony from protesters, reporters and faith leaders revealed agents acting as “professional agitators.”
District Judge Sara Ellis also accused Greg Bovino — the top border patrol official for Trump’s mass deportation operations in Chicago — of lying in court about his officers’ use of force and his claim that protesters hit him in the head with a rock.
The government’s evidence in the case is “simply not credible,” Ellis said during a Thursday hearing, according to the Chicago Tribune.
“Describing neighborhood moms as professional agitators shows just how out of touch these agents are,” Ellis said of descriptions of protests in one Chicago neighborhood.
A lawsuit from protesters, press groups and faith leaders accused agents of indiscriminately firing tear gas and pepper balls into crowds and at close range, without warning, as volatile scenes emerged from protests against immigration raids across Chicago’s neighborhoods.
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