Report: Police Preemptively Raid Apartment & Arrest Activists Ahead of NATO Summit

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Chicago police have reportedly engaged in a preemptive raid against activists that planned to protest the NATO summit. The raid is believed to have taken place late last night in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago.

The National Lawyers Guild reports:

…Police broke down a door to access a 6-unit apartment building near 32nd & Morgan Streets without a search warrant. Police entered an apartment with guns drawn and tackled one of the tenants to the floor in his kitchen. Two tenants were handcuffed for more than 2 hours in their living room while police searched their apartment and a neighboring unit, repeatedly calling one of the tenants a “Commie ******.” A search warrant produced 4 hours after police broke into the apartment was missing a judge’s signature, according to witnesses. Among items seized by police in the Bridgeport raid were beer-making supplies and at least one cell phone…

These kinds of raids are the “hallmark of National Special Security Event,” says Sarah Gelsomino of the NLG and People’s Law Office. Gelsomino is correct. In fact, Michael Ratner and Margaret Ratner Kunstler document the “new paradigm of law enforcement” that is preemptive policing in their book Hell No! Your Right to Dissent.

Kunstler and Ratner call it the domestic version of preemptive war.

more at link: http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/20...it/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

 

[Anti Federalist]

Ah, "pre crime".

Arrests and break ins and getting tackled and abused by goons with guns and badges.

Warrants? We doan need no steekin warrants.

Outside, it's Amerika...

 

[Kylie]

And the occupants of the apartment, if they're law abiding citizens, will not be armed to fight off such an attack.

Talk about having their ducks in a row for a totalitarian state, eh?

 

[tod evans]

See something....

Hell "think" something!

 

[Anti Federalist]

And the occupants of the apartment, if they're law abiding citizens, will not be armed to fight off such an attack.

Talk about having their ducks in a row for a totalitarian state, eh?

Yup, in Chicago they sure as shit will be.

And if they run the names of the "suspects" and one of them shows up in the Illinois FOID database, oh shit, watch out.

Full on SWAT raid then.

 

[Anti Federalist]

See something....

Hell "think" something!

Orwell called it the "Thought Police" for a reason.

 

[Kylie]

Yup, in Chicago they sure as shit will be.

And if they run the names of the "suspects" and one of them shows up in the Illinois FOID database, oh shit, watch out.

Full on SWAT raid then.

I figured they would have done an end run around the gun ban overturn, by not issuing FOID cards to them.

They refused my Dad, even though there was no valid reasoning for it(imo). A conviction that was expunged as a child was brought up, he had forgotten about it(it was 50 years ago...and EXPUNGED) but that was enough for them to deny him his right to bear arms in IL.

What blows me away is he still wants to live here. I'll never understand it.

 

[Anti Federalist]

I figured they would have done an end run around the gun ban overturn, by not issuing FOID cards to them.

They refused my Dad, even though there was no valid reasoning for it(imo). A conviction that was expunged as a child was brought up, he had forgotten about it(it was 50 years ago...and EXPUNGED) but that was enough for them to deny him his right to bear arms in IL.

What blows me away is he still wants to live here. I'll never understand it.

Total Information Awareness.

 

[pcosmar]

Total Information Awareness.

Can not everyone see this whole situation is horribly wrong?
Why is this shit NOT on the front page and headline of every media outlet in this country?

I mean.. I know some folks get it. But really,, are things really this bad and no one notices?

 

[phill4paul]

No mention on how much investigative manpower went into identifying the individuals? How much was organized through a 'social' network and who tracked it?

Outside, IT IS Amerika.

 

[brushfire]

This is how they roll in Chicago. ...and you can trust them to protect you when they take your guns

 

[Kotin]

So they are not even hiding behind laws anymore?? Just blatant Gestapo action?


Noted.

 

[NoOneButPaul]

Telling you... I live right in the loop, I work everyday at city hall.

Police are getting crazy, multiplying by the hours (secret service and FBI showed up today and there were snipers on loop rooftops), and the protesters haven't even shown up yet.

Work tomorrow and monday is going to be crazy, most departments have been offered the day off in preparation, my office was not.

I'll report back tomorrow.

 

[phill4paul]

Telling you... I live right in the loop, I work everyday at city hall.

Police are getting crazy, multiplying by the hours (secret service and FBI showed up today and there were snipers on loop rooftops), and the protesters haven't even shown up yet.

Work tomorrow and monday is going to be crazy, most departments have been offered the day off in preparation, my office was not.

I'll report back tomorrow.

Please do.

 

[pcosmar]

I'll report back tomorrow.

Keep a low pro,,

please

 

[Anti Federalist]

Can not everyone see this whole situation is horribly wrong?
Why is this shit NOT on the front page and headline of every media outlet in this country?

I mean.. I know some folks get it. But really,, are things really this bad and no one notices?

Things are really that bad.

Most people do not care.

 

[Dark_Horse_Rider]

most people are not that good at seeing what is happening and why it is happening

the media does its best to blind its viewers,

and the ones that were smart enough to tune them out, often neglect to discover for themselves what is really taking place

 

[roho76]

I'm working in South Chicago area and there are police check points everywhere. I drove through two of them just going to work.

 

[alucard13mmfmj]

interesting.. the government treats most political activists that cause trouble in other countries as heroes... but when political activists start trouble in the USA, its a nono.

 

[Anti Federalist]

I'm working in South Chicago area and there are police check points everywhere. I drove through two of them just going to work.

Freedom.