ICE AGE: Trump's Thugs Attack Protesters in Chicago

"I was tossed in the air,” protester Daniel Schaus told our Jon Farina about an ICE agent driving into him at ICE prison outside of Chicago. "They hit me going about 25-30 miles per hour."

Our Jon Farina was ON-THE-GROUND right outside of Chicago yesterday at the ICE Broadview Detention Center when ICE agents WENT WILD on unarmed, peaceful protesters, shooting pepper balls, sting balls, tear gas, pepper spray, & stun grenades a protesters & journalists.

“Get back!” agents screamed as they indiscriminately shot at protesters; one of them was shot by so many rubber bullets, his back was riddled with gaping red marks (watch video below).

Despite the gruesome marks on his back, and abuse he took from the ICE agents shooting at him, the protester screamed at them,“I’ll be right back!” as he went to change his shirt.

The scene looked like it was out of some horror war film, with snipers firing at protesters from the roof of the ICE prison.

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Jon also interviewed Daniel Schaus, a protester who was run over by an ICE vehicle the night before.

“They had the most trigger happy folks up on the roof, they unloaded hundreds of rounds on us…every time a vehicle drove up on us, they took aim and fired [at us],” Schaus explained about ICE agents firing at him and other protesters earlier in this week at the Broadview detention center.

“When we got over there, another vehicle that was ICE was coming in and actually pulled in, went over a curb, through the grass, and hit me on the sidewalk to get into the parking lot…they hit me going about 25-30 miles per hour. I was tossed in the air,” he recounted about an ICE agent striking him with their vehicle on September 25th (watch our interview with him below).

Our Jon Farina will be ON-THE-GROUND all day today as more protests—and unfortunately ICE brutality toward peaceful protesters—are expected.

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