An ICE murder in Franklin Park, Illinois

    While Republicans, Nazis, and Corporate Media feverently try to turn Charlie Kirk into some kind of sainted martyr by ignoring what he said, did, and advocated for and by censoring and attacking anyone who quotes what Kirk said, did, and advocated for, whilst still lying about the motives of his killer, the Traitor Trump ICE Klan began operations in and around Chicago entitled Midway Blitz.

As always, Republicans spend their time coming up with these too cutesy names for their racist garbage but, naming the operation means there should be some kind of detailed order of operations or dossiers on the people they are tasked to apprehend;  now, I write this knowing this is most likely only true in the most vague sense.  While ICE is undoubtedly using NCIC and FBI databases for criminal name checks, those databases don't provide reliable information to be used in and of themselves to detain someone.  So, instead the Trumpstapho is going to rely on Boofer O'Kavanugh's racial profiling apologia from the Supremacist Court ruling; 

Moreover, as for stop of this individuals who are legally in the country, the questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States.

Boofer just eviscerates the 4th Amendment here...  as a Police Officer one of the prime protections of the 4th Amendment is you can't just stop someone and demand they explain themselves;  these protections were encapsulated in the the 1968 ruling Terry v. Ohio and in the 1985 ruling Tennessee v. Garner. 

This Supremacist Court has removed that protection for an entire class of people based solely on their Race and color (and location).  It's a fucking infuriating.

But, we live in a time of ascendent fascism and outright and open constitutional violations of law.  ICE Agents have already been caught perjuring themselves in Court but the concept of Officer lying under oath, i.e. "Testilying" has been around for a long time.

So, of course ICE was going to lie about their killing of Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez.  From the Unraveled News story, What Happened to Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez;

Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, confirmed by the Mexican consulate as a 38-year-old Mexican citizen from the state of Michoacán. An unidentified ICE agent fatally shot him in the heavily Latine Chicago suburb of Franklin Park during what DHS described as a “vehicle stop,” according to an official statement.

“He refused to follow law enforcements [sic] commands and drove his car at law enforcement officers,” the statement reads. “One of the ICE officers was hit by the car and dragged a significant distance. Fearing for his own life, the officer fired his weapon.“

Bystander videos and eyewitness accounts, however, tell a different story. 

Security footage near the scene in Franklin Park, as reported by CBS, shows two plainclothes agents approaching a silver sedan that had been blocked off by an unmarked SUV. 

The sedan eventually reverses from the two agents, and the officer on the passenger side points his firearm at the vehicle. 

As Villegas González drives away from the agents—not toward them, as DHS claimed—the agent on the passenger side aims his weapon at the back of Villegas González’s car.

Two gunshots can be heard in a separate security video. The second agent is not visible during the shooting, and it remains unclear which agent fired their weapon.

Other footage that circulated on social media following the shooting, recorded by on-scene witnesses, shows two men in body armor pulling Villegas González out of his vehicle after it crashed into the undercarriage of a semitruck:

DHS also claims one of their agents was “dragged … a significant distance.” 

The distance between the initial stop and where Villegas González’s car was crushed under a truck is roughly 100 feet.

Witness video obtained by Unraveled appears to show no other agents present in the immediate aftermath of the shooting:

Villegas González was pronounced dead after being taken to the nearby Loyola Hospital, according to a Friday evening statement from the Village of Franklin Park.

Look there is going to be no widespread outcry, cancel culture retribution, firings, or glowing tributes to Mr. Villegas-Gonzalez, because he is a Hispanic man and that is a category Republicans have deemed non-human.  If you look at any comments on Facebook or a news story there are hundreds of rabid white people who thirst for blood and even more disgustingly laugh and applaud this murder and the lawless actions of ICE.  It should be noted Villegas Gonzalez was not a "hardened criminal" despite whatever smear job the Department of Homeland Security claims.  But, White people have been driven insane and now not only support state-sponsored white supremacy and violence, they fucking yearn for it and ant it to escalate.

The Mexican Consulate in Chicago and U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, have called for a full investigation into the incident, and hopefully the amount of video already collected by the journalists at Unraveled will make it into the hands of the FBI, but expect the investigation to be stopped much like the Criminal Trump Department of Injustice stopped the investigation into Criminal human thumb Tom Homan who accepted bribes in order to subvert justice.