Chicago activist groups sue to block federal agents from interfering with protests against police brutality
, brutalizing protestors and detaining them in unmarked vans in an apparent effort to quell the recent protests against police brutality.that the very presence of these federal agents will escalate the already-high tensions between protestors and law enforcement.
“Sending in federal agents without any real specificity and clarity for their presence is a very slippery slope,” said David Stovall, a professor of Black studies and criminology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. “If they are just going to ramp up what is existing, then that could mean more arrests and, in the worst case, more fatalities.”
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