I did some editing for clarity and I changed the order of sentences and paragraphs, etc. There's great info in the article but the organization of the article is a mess.
Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol chief who has helped lead the campaign, Operation Midway Blitz, told Fox News on Thursday that he left Chicago to train in West Virginia with several hundred agents but could redeploy to New York, Chicago or Charlotte, North Carolina.
Two people have been shot, one fatally. Rubber pellets and pepper balls have often been fired into crowds. And neighborhoods have been enveloped in clouds of noxious gas from canisters, tossed by federal agents, that have sickened residents and police officers, too.
Agents have been involved in eight car chases and used force in at least 76 incidents, according to a WBEZ and Sun-Times review of hundreds of court documents, videos and news reports. The examination focused on 18 types of force and also vehicle chases and collisions from Sept. 8 through Nov. 10 in the Chicago area, including northwest Indiana. The eight chases resulted in eight crashes, WBEZ and the Sun-Times found. McCarthy says each of those is a “red flag.”
He says it’s not unusual for vehicle pursuits to end with car crashes.
“Sometimes, people get killed. And, if you’re chasing somebody for a minor violation or for an administrative immigration warrant, it’s probably not something that’s authorized based upon the national standards of policing. But they’re not adhering to the national standards of policing because they’re not police.”
McCarthy says Border Patrol agents have acted more recklessly than their counterpart agency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “They’re out of control,” he says of the Border Patrol agents. Agents in Midway Blitz have used chokeholds in at least five incidents, WBEZ and the Sun-Times found.
In 2023, with President Joe Biden in office, the Department of Homeland Security updated its use-of-force policy, barring the use of chokeholds and physical restraint of a person’s neck “unless deadly force is authorized. Chokeholds and carotid restraints must not be used as a means to control noncompliant subjects or persons resisting arrest,” - according to the policy.
In entirely unsurprising news - the lies are ridiculous enough to be offensive.
Asked about agents’ use of force, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin says immigration agents are “highly trained in deescalation tactics and defensive driving. “The First Amendment protects speech and peaceful assembly — not rioting,” McLaughlin says. “DHS is taking reasonable and constitutional measures to uphold the rule of law and protect our officers.”
I scanned the first half the article. There's surely more I could have added but I hate trawling through articles to find what I want.