Tyler McBrien
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- Any Chicago housing law experts out there know whether tenants could sue the landlord here? Something about knowingly endangering tenants, or prohibitions against "self-help" evictions?
- BREAKING: The Trump administration repeatedly said the aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover. New docs show the real motivation was to get alleged squatters. And the landlord and manager helped them. www.propublica.org/article/chic...
- 🧵 At 3pm ET today, I'll be live-posting highlights from the public forum for @lawfaremedia.org. This will some witnesses' very first public appearance and the only one for Brent and Luke Ganger, who do not plan to do any additional interviews. Follow this thread for updates as they happen 🧵👇
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View full threadAddressing Marimar Martinez, Blumenthal shows text messages from the CBP agent who shot her and says: "Charles Exum sought to assassinate you, and then DHS sought to assassinate your character. That is unconscionable and intolerable."
- The hearing is still going, but unfortunately I have to end my live-posting here for now. @lawfaremedia.org is a non-profit newsroom, funded through the generosity of our material supporters. If you value our work, please consider donating, we truly appreciate it: givebutter.com/journalism/t...
- Stoughton: "We've seen senior officials issue definitive, exonerating conclusions within hours of an incident—far sooner than would be possible with any careful inquiry...These statements signal that any oversight is purely performative, that accountability and outcomes are preordained."
- Garcia, up again, ends by holding up a photo of Stephen Miller and says: "There is probably no single person who has done more damage and more harm to people across this country...than this man right here. It's our job...to hold him responsible for the crimes that are happening to U.S. citizens."
- The next witness, U.S. citizen and CA resident Martin Rascon, chokes up as he recounts an experience from August when four men in face masks, sunglasses, & baseball caps tried to force into his car, guns pointed at him and his family, ignoring requests to ID themselves before shooting multiple times
- The final witness is Seth Stoughton, a former police officer and law professor, begins with: "This administration's approach to immigration enforcement falls far short of professional norms. This is not policing. This is not normal. And this is neither professionally nor democratically acceptable."
- The next witness is Aliya Rahman, a U.S. citizen and resident of Minneapolis with autism and a traumatic brain injury, who in January was dragged from her car by immigration agents— four blocks away from where George Floyd was killed—then detained without access to medical care or lawyer.
- Rahman: "We call ourselves a civilized nation, but we lack rules and accountability around what a person claiming to be law enforcement is permitted to do to another human being." She ends with this: "I am not afraid. And I am not afraid to keep working on this problem, even after ICE is gone."
- Martinez: "[I] sat in federal court and watched from 20 feet away as the border patrol agent who attempted to kill me testified at a hearing. Agent Charles Exum—Charles Exum, my attempted executioner was Charles Exum—I hope the government does not consider my use of his name here to be...doxxing."
- Martinez ends her testimony with this: "If there's not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."
