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‘Chiraq Team 2’: Oak Park attorney catches glimpse of federal agents’ group chat during arrest • The TRiiBE (thetriibe.com)
submitted 1 month ago by homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world
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Attorney Scott Sakiyama stood in front of reporters in Chicago’s Dirksen Federal Courthouse on Oct. 10. Paul Ivery, a 26-year-old intellectually disabled Black man and Oak Park local, was leaving the courthouse after enduring nearly two weeks of criminal proceedings. The government claimed Ivery assaulted a Border Patrol agent at a protest at the suburban Broadview ICE facility on Sept. 27, only to drop the case two weeks later. Sakiyama, a fellow Oak Park resident, didn’t represent Ivery in court but offered to act as a spokesperson for his family.

“If the case had gone forward, it probably would have lasted for months, and so it’s just such a relief to have it over now,” Sakiyama told reporters on Oct.10.  

Ten days later, Sakiyama ended up in the back of a vehicle used by federal immigration agents himself. The masked agents detained him at gunpoint on the morning of Oct. 20 and brought him to the same Broadview ICE facility. He sat in the vehicle with agents for about a half hour outside the facility before another agent gave him a citation for impeding a federal officer. 

They then returned him to his own car and wished him a good day, he said.

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[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He added that, while waiting in the minivan for his citation, he caught a glimpse of the agents in the vehicle with him receiving text messages from a group chat called “Chiraq Team 2.”

This was the only bit of the article actually related to the headline, which feels a bit clickbaity.

That aside, it was a good window in to just how far things have gone in the US. Scary stuff.

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So "Chiraq" would be from Chicago and Iraq mashed together?

Of they are using Signal for this then it's basically untraceable as it's fully end to end encrypted and the messages are deleted after 2 weeks(?). There will never be any accountability.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not sure whether I'm not clever enough to have immediately recognized the portmanteau or not stupid enough.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago

I think Spike Lee coined it years ago

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I thought the same on both counts. Still, in theory one should be able to subpoena those chat records or get them with a FOIA request but of course they’re breaking the law by using signal or whatever which no one will convict anyone for (unless they’re black, then maybe.)

[–] RicoBerto@piefed.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The racists near Memphis call it Memfrica :/ what is with these people.

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago

Racists are not the most creative types, ya know.

[–] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

There are no words...