Overview

• Former CBP commissioner Gil Kerlikowske says ICE officers lack the training and experience for urban policing and calls recent shows of force unnecessary.
• Widely shared clips show masked agents pulling a woman from a car outside a Chicago elementary school, throwing tear gas from an SUV near a middle school, and an officer in Hyattsville dropping a handgun then appearing to point it at bystanders as DHS says the arrestee resisted.
• Pepper-ball incidents near ICE’s Broadview, Illinois, site have prompted legal and local scrutiny, including Pastor David Black’s lawsuit and a police investigation after a TV reporter said her car was hit.
• DHS asserts agents are highly trained and acting within law and policy while citing rising assaults on officers, a claim some reporting has questioned.
• The ACLU of Illinois has sued over alleged violations of protesters’ rights, and a grand jury indicted a woman and a man on charges of impeding federal officers in a recent Chicago case.