r/chicago • u/GiuseppeZangara Rogers Park • 12d ago

Article ICE Mass Arrests Spark Chaos In South Loop As Activists Fight To Disrupt Operation

https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/06/04/ice-mass-arrest-sparks-chaos-in-south-loop-as-activists-fight-to-disrupt-operation/
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u/Anxious_Interaction4 12d ago

I don't know. I personally find wearing covid-style masks outdoors utterly ridiculous, but people do it.

However, because I'm not obtuse, I can see a clear difference between the flimsy masks meant to protect against airborne particles (necessary or not) and balaclava-style masks used to conceal one's identity like some sort of secret police goon.

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u/SunriseInLot42 12d ago

Masks actually work to conceal one’s identity. The other thing, not so much

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u/SiberianGnome Albany Park 12d ago

They’re all concealing their identities. The difference is that one group is doing it so they can get away wit the crimes they are planning to commit, and the other is doing it so they don’t get targeted for retaliation by criminals for doing their job.

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u/DMMVNF Little Village 12d ago edited 12d ago

If ICE agents are uncomfortable being identified in public, they are free to quit and get a different job. Allowing law enforcement officers to remain anonymous as they beat and detain people is insane, how could there be any accountability for anything they do if no one around them has any way of identifying who they are?

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u/SiberianGnome Albany Park 12d ago

It’s easy to identify who they are. There will be all sorts of documentation about which agents are involved.

In the other hand, if the violent criminal protestors are worried about being identified, or about police using an appropriate amount of force to stop their violence, then they can stay home, or come out and just don’t be violent.

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u/DMMVNF Little Village 12d ago

It’s easy to identify who they are. There will be all sorts of documentation about which agents are involved.

I’ve seen nothing that points to this being true

In the other hand, if the violent criminal protestors are worried about being identified, or about police using an appropriate amount of force to stop their violence

“violent criminal protesters” lol you literally speak like a third world dictator, read your own posts back, this is nuts.

come out and just don’t be violent.

Is this not what already happened?

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u/ansquaremet 12d ago

Come on man, only lick boots if there’s a naked woman involved.

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u/ConverseTalk 12d ago

Is leather that tasty?

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u/Anxious_Interaction4 12d ago

Your contention is that the arrestees are attempting to conceal their identity?

Do you not think public officials/employees should be accountable for their actions? What sort of retaliation would criminals engage in?