{"id":249,"date":"2025-10-09T12:42:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.halatomat.com\/thisweek\/?p=249"},"modified":"2025-10-10T09:32:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T16:32:52","slug":"october-4-october-10-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.halatomat.com\/thisweek\/2025\/10\/09\/october-4-october-10-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"October 4\u2013October 10, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

THIS WEEK IN…<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

STATE VIOLENCE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Immigration raids have been carried out daily across the country for months, with numerous incidents of ICE agents using excessive force against both citizens and non-citizens. What unfolded over the last week in Chicago, however, represented a significant escalation by the Trump administration as military-style operations spilled into residential neighborhoods. While images of heavily armed personnel detaining individuals and transporting them in unmarked vehicles have become distressingly routine, the deployment of armed troops, over the objections of state and local leaders, to intimidate and terrorize entire communities, and the militarized tactics being employed, mark a new and dark chapter in this administration\u2019s war on the American public and American democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An ICE raid conducted last week on an apartment complex in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago, a predominantly Black community, left a trail of destruction. According to eyewitnesses<\/a>, agents in full tactical gear rappelled down from helicopters onto the roof of that apartment building, knocked down doors, dragged families out in the middle of the night and even zip-tied small children. Cindy Hernandez<\/strong> examined the incident and spoke with some of the residents<\/a> and Daniel Knowles <\/strong>analyzes What a Chicago immigration raid says about Trumpism<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Historian Garrett Graff <\/strong>on how \u201cICE crosses another big, important line<\/a>\u201d with this raid on an entire apartment building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agents fired so much tear gas that even people who were not protesting got sick when they left their homes, reports Samantha Michaels<\/strong>: ICE Is Hounding Chicago Area Locals With Excessive Chemical Munitions<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kelly Hayes<\/strong> examines how Trump is is normalizing attacks on blue cities in an effort to overpower hubs of democratic resistance: Trump Is Releasing the Full Force of Federal Police on Chicago<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A masked ICE agent sprayed David Black, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, directly in the face during protests outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois. Photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Last Saturday, Border Patrol officials shot and wounded 30-year-old Chicago resident Marimar Martinez, who they claim rammed her car into a federal law-enforcement vehicle during a protest at Brighton Park. But as David Struett<\/strong> and Kade Heather<\/strong> report, Body-camera video appears to contradict the government\u2019s claim: Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims agent said, ‘Do something b—-‘ before shooting<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Federal agents violating individuals\u2019 constitutional rights and using increasingly violent tactics have been on shocking display these past few days. Here are just a few examples:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Federal Agent sprays nonviolent Portland protesters at ICE facility<\/em><\/div><\/div>
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Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area ICE facility and began to pray. Masked agents responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head.<\/em><\/div><\/div>
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Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the street by ICE.<\/em><\/div><\/div>
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Chicago alderperson Jessie Fuentes being handcuffed after she demanded to see a warrant.<\/em><\/div><\/div>
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A woman gets tackled by 4 male officers, pulling her clothes off.<\/em><\/div><\/div>
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ICE breaks into this woman\u2019s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)<\/em><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>