This all was racially profiled to the max and highly targeted. Otherwise, many of the encounters (on the North Side) seemed more random than anything - from what I saw on various online platforms.
I walk at least 35 - 40 miles per week in the City of Chicago, but I never stray west of Kedzie, north of Howard, or south of Division Street. I personally never once saw federal personnel since the occupation began. I use public transportation every day. I don't drive. And before anyone takes what I am saying the wrong way, YES, I UNDERSTAND THAT MY EXPERIENCE IS MY OWN: I UNDERSTAND THAT WHAT IS HAPPENING IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING AND THAT IS HORRID, DISGUSTING, AND COMPLETELY RACIST TO THE CORE.
The City isn't large mileage-wise compared to a place like Houston, but it is big in other ways. And we are tough. We are resilient people.
Midwesterners are mostly fair and law-abiding folk with a sense of "what's right is right." You don't harm kids, women, the weak, or the elderly. Those are street rules ingrained in my head since childhood. Before anyone wants to pick at that, YES, I UNDERSTAND THOSE TRAITS ARE NOT UNIQUELY MIDWESTERN.
It is surreal.
Chicago isn't a "hell on Earth" and it pisses me off that anyone characterizes my hometown that way. For whatever reason. As a Chicagoan, I am not fearful. Never liked cops to begin with being a police violence survivor. I was beaten by a group of cops while I was handcuffed and that was 25 years before The Orange Shitstain became president. Don't even get me started on routine harassment, racial profiling, etc. None of this is new. Different actors, same racist American show.
We outnumber ICE/CPB/Gestapo. We outnumber the military. We outnumber every filthy cop.
The Gestapo are cowards. All it took was 2 - 3 inches of snow and some gunshots thrown their way to move the Gestapo Roadshow to Charlotte, NC. Or so snowflake Bovino says.
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