'Escalating pattern': AG urged to launch criminal probe into Trump feds' 'brutality'
By Stephen Prager, Common Dreams
Published October 27, 2025 7:02 PM ET
A legal advocacy group requested on Monday that Illinois officials open criminal investigations into the “unlawful” conduct of federal agents deployed to Chicago by President Donald Trump.
Free Speech For People, a national pro-democracy nonprofit, called on state Attorney General Kwame Raoul, Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke, and Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling to probe what it called “an escalating pattern of criminal activity by federal agents” over the past two months of Trump’s "Operation Midway Blitz," which was launched in early September, and which the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says has resulted in the arrests of more than 1,500 people.
The group highlights several incidents of what they called “military-style operations” carried out across the Chicago area by agencies including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and others.
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