Andrew Sage

So last weekend, while conducting an immigration enforcement raid, Border Patrol disrupted...

The root of a children's Halloween parade in Old Irving Park in Chicago, using tear gas and arresting several people, including two U.S.

citizens.

A crowd gathered around after Border Patrol arrested a 35-year-old construction worker who has lived in Chicago since he was four years old.

Neighborhood residents said that federal agents then deployed tear gas without warning.

That following Tuesday, the architect of Operation Midway Blitz, Greg Bovino, appeared in federal court as part of a lawsuit alleging excessive force and violations of a TRO restricting the use of tear gas and crowd control munitions.

Bavino seems to be flagrantly violating this TRO as he was photographed personally throwing a tear gas canister into a crowd on October 22nd during a raid on a laundromat and Home Depot.

The DHS says that protesters were throwing rocks and Border Patrol issued warnings, though this account is contradicted by video of the incident.

U.S.

District Judge Sarah Ellis told the Border Patrol chief, "...kids dressed in Halloween costumes walking to a parade do not pose an immediate threat to the safety of law enforcement officers.

They just don't.

And you can't use riot control weapons against them."

This TRO requires that crowd control munitions may only be used if someone poses an immediate threat to law enforcement with agents instructed to give two verbal warnings before tear gas or pepper spray can be deployed and to wear body cams, badges, or visible IDs.

This order was issued on October 9th.

And to get an idea of how closely this is being followed, Bovino himself still does not wear a body cam and told Judge Ellis, quote, I have not received a body worn camera nor the training, unquote.

Yeah, so Border Patrol agents have generally, just to give some context here, not worn body-worn cameras for a number of reasons.

Firstly, they just don't want to.

Secondly, no one is making them.

Thirdly, they believe that it is possible for people to detect the Bluetooth signal

that the camera gives out and thus find them... This is something that is theoretically possible, as best my research can tell.