You are Gestapo or Storm Troopers, or SA/SS, if you use hard-core military tactics to empty a five story apartment building, kick in housing unit doors, detain zip-tied residents outside all in the in middle of the night, and end up arresting ONLY 37 illegal aliens (presumably, it being unclear still, days later), and say you are Americans, GREAT AGAIN.

Shock and awe? Against residential Americans asleep at night in their homes, collectively, and say you've an excuse? You have none. The conduct is reprehensible. It shocks the conscience. It is what Israelis are doing to Gazans, (absent airplanes bombing only}, then you are doing war crimes against your citizens and are animals, not humans. It is inexcusable. 

AJ general video.  From Chicago. An area worried over gentrifying being picked to invade, a predominantly black and immigrant occupied building chosen, as if standards differ for "them," Trump you are a vile racist in managing those under your dominion - your storm troops - your ICE.

A TIME item carried by MSN -

'Military-Style' ICE Raid In Chicago Shows Escalation in Tactics

Story by Rebecca Schneid

 At around 1 a.m. on Tuesday morning, armed federal agents rappelled from helicopters onto the roof of a five-storey residential apartment in the South Shore of Chicago, according to witnesses and local reporting. As they worked their way through the building, they kicked down doors, threw flash bang grenades, and rounded up adults and screaming children alike, detaining them in zip-ties and arresting dozens, they said.

The military-style raid was part of a widespread immigration crackdown in the country’s third-largest city as part of the Trump Administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz,” which has brought a dramatic increase in federal raids and arrests. 

The raid has drawn outrage throughout Chicago and the state, with rights groups and lawmakers claiming it represents a dramatic escalation in tactics used by federal authorities in the pursuit of Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown.

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Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker accused the federal agents of separating children from their parents, zip-tying their hands, and detaining them in “dark vans” for hours. Videos show flashbangs erupting on the street, followed by residents of the apartment building—children among them—being led from the building. Photos of the aftermath show toys and shoes littering the apartment hallways, evidence of those pulled from their beds by the operation that included FBI and Homeland Security agents.

'Military-style tactics'

Pritzker said that he would work with local law enforcement to hold the agents accountable in a statement condemning the raid.  “Military-style tactics should never be used on children in a functioning democracy,” he said. “​​This didn’t happen in a country with an authoritarian regime – it happened here in Chicago. It happened in the United States of America – a country that should be a bastion of freedom, hope, and the rights of our people as guaranteed by the Constitution,” he added. 

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has touted some 900 arrests in its Chicago operation since it began in early September, as well as the 37 arrests made in the nighttime raid on Tuesday, all of whom it said were “involved in drug trafficking and distribution, weapons crimes and immigration violators.” The DHS said the building was targeted because it was “known to be frequented by Tren de Aragua members and their associates.” The DHS posted video of the raid on social media, overlaid with dramatic music, showing helicopters shining bright lights onto the apartment building while people were being led out in cuffs. 

A DHS spokesperson told CNN following the raid that children were taken into custody “for their own safety and to ensure these children were not being trafficked, abused or otherwise exploited.” The DHS also said that four children who are U.S. citizens with undocumented parents were taken into custody.

Zip-ties and guns

In the aftermath of the sweeping raid, residents and city lawmakers have been demanding answers from the federal government. 

Ed Yohnka, from the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois (ACLU), told MSNBC on Saturday that the raid represented “an escalation of force and violence” from the federal government in Chicago. 

“What we saw was a full-fledged military operation conducted on the south side of Chicago against an apartment building,” he added. 

“They just treated us like we were nothing,” Pertissue Fisher, a U.S. citizen who lives in the apartment building, told ABC7 Chicago in an interview soon after the raid. She said she was then handcuffed, held for hours, and released around 3 a.m. This was the first time she said a gun was ever put in her face.

Neighbor Eboni Watson, who witnessed the raid, also told the ABC station that the children were zip-tied—some of them were without clothes—when they were taken out of the residential building by federal agents. “Where’s the morality?” Watson said she kept asking during the raid.

“As a father, I cannot help but think about what it means for a child to be torn from their bed in the middle of the night, detained for no reason other than a show of force,” National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) president Derrick Johnson said in a statement. “The trauma inflicted on these young people and their families is unconscionable." 

ICE and DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment from TIME.

ICE’s tactics were denounced again on Friday, when Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes was handcuffed by federal immigration agents at a Chicago medical center after questioning agents about their warrant to arrest at the medical center.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson called Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s tactics “abusive.”

The raids come just days after President Donald Trump signaled a desire to make greater use of the U.S. military in American cities during a speech to top military leaders, as he assailed a “war from within” the nation.

“We are under invasion from within,” he said, “no different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in many ways, because they don't wear uniforms.”

He called for U.S. cities to be “training grounds” for the military, as he continues to threaten Chicago with his newly named “Department of War,” and has said that he plans to deploy the National Guard to the city to crack down on crime and immigration enforcement.

CBS News also reported:

Federal agents detained 37 people in an immigration raid in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood, and the Department of Homeland Security claims it was targeting members of an infamous Venezuelan gang.

People were jolted out of their beds in the early hours of Tuesday morning by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and other federal agents, armed and in full military uniform.

Cell phone video captured by a neighbor shows agents leading people in zip ties to a school parking lot near 75th and South Shore around 1 a.m. Tuesday. Women and children were among those detained, at least briefly.

The FBI confirmed they were assisting in a "targeted immigration enforcement operation" at the apartment building, and DHS now says the targets included members of the infamous Tren De Aragua gang. But information about who was actually picked up and why is sparse, nor do we know how many of the arrests made actually involved gang members.

DHS also said it was targeting people with drug trafficking offenses, weapons charges and immigrations violations, but again officials have declined to say who was actually arrested and why.

Community activists said many of the undocumented immigrants who came to South Shore left their countries for a chance at a safer life.

"Hundreds of masked agents knocking down doors and dragging families out in the middle of the night. holding babies that were unclothed. that's not right. Folks that were just trying to live their lives in this community. Does that look like safety to you? No!" said Veronica Castro of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.

CBS News Chicago has continued to reach out to DHS for more information about the South Shore raid, though answers may be further delayed. A post to the agency's website says its press page is not being managed at the moment due to the government shutdown. 

A conspiracy of silence, by our Government, timed shortly after the shutdown took effect. Or just depopulate the 5-story of "da po' people" while Wells Fargo is foreclosng - see here and here? 

Trump's a real estate guy, is that a factor?

CNN covered the invasion of the residents - ending

In its statement addressing the raid, DHS noted it was still gathering information about those arrested “due to the size” of the operation and will provide more information.

“Federal law enforcement officers will not stand by and allow criminal activity flourish in our American neighborhoods,” DHS said.

No, the fuckers do it, rather than allow it, and "still gathering information?" WTF don't know what you've done but know you did it with a fucking hellicoptor with rappelling down from it to the rooftop? Christ! Nazis were better on top of Krystal Nacht. They knoe what they were doing, but they'd had more months of exercising their tactics, give Krisi Noem that, she's just beginning. Homan, won't get any better.

I don't know how this rings with you, but I am heart-broken and astounded, taxpayers getting this in return:

Protesters arrested near ICE facility in Illinois as Kristi Noem watches, days after agents raid Chicago apartment building

The FBI said the agency and other Justice Department law enforcement partners were supporting the U.S. Border Patrol - at the direction of the Attorney General.

The protesters were charged with aggravated battery to a peace officer and resisting and obstruction, the Cook County Sheriff's Office told the outlet. 

The protesters were part of a larger crowd that had gathered to demonstrate against ICE raids in Illinois, as Noem visited the facility. 

As the arrests were unfolding below, Noem was seen on the roof of the Broadview facility surrounded by armed agents and a camera crew. 

The arrests come days after ICE agents in military gear raided a Chicago apartment building, frightening residents and arresting 37 people. Law enforcement officials acknowledged shortly after the raid that some U.S. citizens were "briefly" detained.

Kristi sight-seeing? Damned the extra expense, this gets the lady off like shooting a puppy.

Close it with EmptyWheel analyzing Pritzker's lawsuit against Trump's disturbers of the peace. 

BOTTOM LINE: Shameful abuse of authority by Trump's warriors, under Trump's orders, or prove me wrong. 

The whole world is watching. The nation is in distress. Dark forces are afoot. And it will worsen.