While Chicagoland saw federal violence descend upon its neighborhoods, the many law enforcement agencies of Illinois and its localities compounded it with violence of their own.
Broadview’s “Unified Command” effectively ran interference of protests against the Staging Area/de facto detention center, seemingly to protect it. It was to the point where the Assistant Director of ICE’s Chicago field office called one of Unified Command’s agencies a “difference maker…and we are grateful for their leadership” in a 10/5 email. The main agencies involved were:
-Broadview Police Department (BPD)
-Cook County Sheriff’s Office (CSO)
-Illinois State Police (ISP)
-Northern Illinois Police Alert System Mobile Field Force (NIPAS MFF)
Meanwhile, Chicago Police (CPD) de facto assisted in crowd control during ICE/CBP raids in various neighborhoods, even when CPD were themselves tear gassed. This, in addition to kettling and the antagonizing of some anti-ICE protests in the city, occasionally forcing flashpoints.
This is a personal photo collection of police occupation, accelerating a world falling apart.
One of multiple mobile security camera stations along the Harvard St entrance to the Broadview ICE facility. A NIPAS officer in riot gear stands in the foreground. 10/3.
ISP troopers intermingle with ICE and Border Patrol agents along the Harvard St entrance to the Broadview ICE facility. Right-wing propagandist Benny Johnson walks among them. 10/3.
(Left) A Chicago Pride Parade marcher bumps fists with a spectator, while a pair of CPD officers watch. (Right) Inset of several dozen bundles of zip ties, its plastic open, ready to be used. 6/29.
(Left) A CCSO sheriff kicks away a pair of dropped respirators from arrested protesters. (Center) The CCSO commander watches the protest zone. (Right) A column of ISP troopers just outside the Broadview ICE facility. 10/17.
ISP troopers protecting the driveway along the Harvard St entrance to the Broadview ICE facility, allowing a Customs and Border Protection truck to pass through free from protest. 10/3.
A CPD officer looks at a store window, which displays a pride flag. Signage hangs above: “FREE ASSESSMENTS – NO PRESECRIPTION NEEDED.” 6/29.
A protester sits on the curb outside the Broadview ICE facility while detained by Unified Command, framed by BPD vehicles, just before being taken away in a CCSO paddy wagon. 10/17.
A child wearing a Ukrainian flag is picked up by their guardian. At a Ukrainian rally against Trump at Daley Plaza. 3/2.
Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) workers deploy concrete barriers with construction equipment. 10/3.
A protester holds up a sign and a US flag flown in distress in front of a police line, during a standoff between CPD and protesters after the first “No Kings” rally and march at Daley Plaza. 6/14.
A marcher holds a megaphone and a sign: “NO ONE IS ILLEGAL ON STOLEN LAND.” A CPD officer watches while talking on the radio. During an anti-ICE march in Little Village. 2/8.
A pair of CPD officers watch an anti-ICE march in Little Village. 2/8.
ISP troopers detain protesters on Beach St after a confusing miscommunication from Unified Command, which organizers believed to be an opening of the designated protest zone, when in fact the street was still closed. 10/17.
A protester shouts while holding up a sign in front of a CPD officer: “ICE OUT OF THE USA!” They are marching as part of the pro-Palestine, anti-ICE contingent during the Chicago Pride Parade, headed by Organized Communities Against Deportations and Chicago’s Gay Liberation Network. 6/29.
At least six BPD officers and ISP troopers from Unified Command pull a protester sideways over the concrete barricades and out of the designated protest zone. At the Broadview ICE Staging Area/de facto detention center. 10/17.
A Border Patrol agent (right) and an ISP trooper (right) stand side-by-side along the police line at the Harvard St approach to the Broadview ICE facility. Dozens of federal agents from DHS and DOJ would intermingle in police actions with Unified Command for police action throughout the day. 10/3.
A protester holds up a sign outside the Broadview ICE facility: “Pritzker’s Police out of BROADIVEW – ICE out of Broadview, ICE out of Chicago, ICE out of EVERYWHERE – Tell Pritzker to STOP collaborating with TRUMP and ICE!” 10/24.
CPD “white shirts” (supervisors) talk to an organizer of the gathered anti-ICE, pro-Palestine contingent prior to the Chicago Pride Parade. 6/29.
CPD bike officers line Wacker Dr during a CAARPR-led march marking the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder. A protester holds a sign: “BLUE LIVES MURDER – PROSECUTE KILLER COPS.” 5/25.
IDOT workers place concrete barricades in the late evening along 25th street in Broadview, extending Unified Command’s exclusion zone from the ICE facility. ISP troopers watch on. 10/4.
A black duffle bag with a red medical cross, full of donated health and wellness supplies, sits just outside the designated protest zone of the Broadview ICE facility. The bag was assembled as part of a protest by Chicago’s branch of Healthcare Workers for Palestine, intended to be donated to the detainees inside. ISP troopers and CCSO sheriffs from Unified Command mostly ignored the request, leaving the bag there. 12/6.
ISP troopers line the Harvard St driveway approach to the Broadview ICE facility, allowing passage for ICE and Border Patrol vehicles, free from protest. 10/3.
ISP troopers and CCSO sheriffs from Unified Command stop people from protesting an ICE vehicle from passing through. The protesters have climbed over the concrete barriers of the 10/10.
Several dozen NIPAS MFF officers march in column, joining over a dozen others already on the line to cover the Harvard St approach to the Broadview ICE facility. 10/3.
A Bureau of Prisons (BOP) agent (center left) from the Department of Justice (DOJ) intermingles with ISP troopers on the police line at Harvard St approach to the Broadview ICE facility. 10/3.
An anti-authoritarian “three arrows” flag waves in the foreground, as CPD “white shirts” (supervisors) convene in the background. At a rally and march at Federal Plaza in response to the deployment of national guard to DC. 8/14.
ISP troopers, as part of Unified Command, hold and arrest a protester after isolating them from the crowd. A trooper in tactical gear is in the foreground. At the Harvard St approach to the Broadview ICE Staging Area/de facto detention center. 10/3.
Christian clergy, from a wide spectrum of denominations, dispense bread and wine (eucharist) to protesters within the designated protest zone of the Harvard St approach to the Broadview ICE facility. In the background, ISP troopers and CCSO sheriffs watch along the police line. Further back, a parking lot is stationed full of police vehicles. 10/10.
An ISP armored car (a Bearcat) drives down a shutdown 25th street. A CCSO sheriff and car are in the foreground. 10/3.
Dozens of CPD bike officers line Federal Plaza, ready to rapidly deploy, redirect/kettle marchers, and arrest protesters. At a rally opposing US airstrikes on Iran, led in part by the Chicago chapter of the ANSWER coalition (@chicagoanswer). Five days earlier, protesters conducted an impromptu march, spurring CPD bike officers to conduct kettling maneuvers and force flashpoints, though resulting in no arrests. 6/27.
Onlookers watching the Chicago Pride Parade wave pride flags. A CPD officer in the foreground looks sternly ahead. 6/29.
A CCSO sheriff with a truncheon screams at protesters to move back after a flashpoint involving protesters at the Harvard St approach to the Broadview ICE facility. ISP troopers conduct arrests after pushing protesters to the ground. 10/10.
A CCSO sheriff arrests a protester on 25th St while holding them against a police car. According to witnesses, the protester had asked permission from a member of Unified Command to cross the street, but was apprehended by other members mid-cross. Despite explanations from bystanders, the protester was eventually taken away in a CCSO paddy wagon. 10/4.
A lone protester dashes out of the designated protest area to move a chain of barricades in front of a slow-moving federal vehicle (left, out-of-frame), prompting Unified Command personnel to tackle and subdue them. After just a few seconds, the Unified Command personnel would then move the barricades out of the way, allowing the federal vehicle to continue its business. 10/10.
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