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Hoffman Estates arrest of 15 year old girl follow up. BBC fact checking reveals NOT from last year. Def. ICE (Original Post) Blues Heron Oct 2025 OP
Official Posts Totally False Information About Violent Arrest of Teen Girl struggle4progress Oct 2025 #1
The fascists and their flying monkeys were really trying hard to cloud the truth about this violent arrest Blues Heron Oct 2025 #2
The DU Truth Squad was on this one! dpibel Oct 2025 #3
Lol Blues Heron Oct 2025 #4

struggle4progress

(126,518 posts)
1. Official Posts Totally False Information About Violent Arrest of Teen Girl
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 10:46 PM
Oct 2025

Tom Latchem
Tue, October 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM EDT

... Last month, the Daily Beast exposed how DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin—the most senior communications official to Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem—had falsely smeared a mom who lost her baby while locked up by ICE as a wanted killer.

This time McLaughlin has been caught claiming that footage of a teenage girl being violently detained on Friday was year-old video of Chicago Police Department detaining a burglar.

The terrified U.S. citizen was, in fact, detained on Friday in the Chicago suburb of Hoffman Estates, which is not in the jurisdiction of the Chicago PD.

The officer, who swung the girl onto the floor before kneeling on her, was wearing a DHS Enforcement and Removals Operations (ERO) flak jacket ...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/senior-ice-barbie-official-posts-162124661.html

Blues Heron

(8,938 posts)
2. The fascists and their flying monkeys were really trying hard to cloud the truth about this violent arrest
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 11:44 PM
Oct 2025

dpibel

(3,994 posts)
3. The DU Truth Squad was on this one!
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 11:56 PM
Oct 2025

Pretty sure that there was some serious scolding of the fools who believed that was an ICE raid.

Thank goodness we've got people keeping us on the straight and narrow!

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