Overview
- Dozens of Customs and Border Protection agents posed in front of Cloud Gate in Millennium Park early Monday, with some reportedly shouting “Little Village” for the photo.
- Artist Anish Kapoor called the images “fascist” and “utterly horrific” and said he is considering legal action, noting his 2018 settlement after the NRA used the sculpture’s image.
- Chicago nonprofit Friends of the Parks condemned the display and urged the city and park district to prevent similar shows of force in public parks.
- A DHS spokesperson defended Operation Midway Blitz by citing declines in homicides, shootings, robberies, carjackings and transit crime since the campaign began in September.
- DHS said agents faced a hostile crowd in Little Village over the weekend, reporting bricks and paint cans thrown and shots fired during an arrest attempt, with no federal injuries.