A federal judge has released footage from nearly four dozen body cameras showing immigration agents’ ‘unprecedented’ use of force during their months-long deportation blitz in the Chicago area.
Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis, handed down a historic order restricting agents use of force in “Operation Midway Blitz,” claiming the tactics she’d seen so far “shocks the conscience.”
Ellis issued a scathing written version of the order last week, citing examples of agents enthusiastically deploying tear gas into crowds without warning, trying to cause car crashes, and repeatedly lying about the reasoning for use of force.
The judge went even further, saying the violent image of Chicago the feds have created to justify their “unprecedented swath of indiscriminate uses of for

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