We went door to door delivering educational flyers on the faces of fascism (see the end of video). They were very popular
w/neighbors, many of whom had "We Stand With Fed Workers" signs in their yard. A few we chatted with expressed interest in repeating the protest in the coming days. 👀

CONT IN 🧵

ISP has fallen back and the feds have withdrawn for now.

The crowd chants “Let them go!”

Cook County Sheriff’s van departs with arrested protesters. At least nine people arrested, including a medic and one of the musicians.

As ISP deals with zip tied protesters on the curb, masked feds and ICE agents with pepper ball guns at the ready look on outside the detention center.

Everything that just happened was both brutal and expected given how we've seen ISP behave these last few weeks.

Saw troopers striking people with batons, dragging protesters. They're currently cuffing someone marked as a medic. Approximately nine people we see in state custody now.

State troopers in riot gear just plowed into the crowd, started arresting protesters and clergy.

Chief Mills told people they could go ahead and protest in the barricaded zone. Activists and press entered the street instead. Facing off with ISP and Broadview PD now.

Crowd here has grown, and people are fired up with chants. Broadview PD and ISP trying to push people out of the street/maintain the "protest zone." Someone plays the accordion.

Despite the restrictions, protest is still happening. Crowd is chanting, "CPD! KKK! ICE! They're all the same!"

This is what that looks like in practice—protesters are still here, they and press have been sequestered to these two corners where they are "not protesting."

Note: the city of Broadview has imposed a curfew on protest here outside the detention center.

Free speech hours (even in the "allowed" area boxed in by cement barricades here) don't start until 9am.