🔗 Share this article US Immigration Officers in the Windy City Required to Wear Worn Cameras by Court Order A US judge has ordered that enforcement agents in the Chicago area must wear body-worn cameras following numerous situations where they deployed pepper balls, canisters, and chemical agents against crowds and city officers, seeming to violate a previous judicial ruling. Legal Displeasure Over Enforcement Tactics US District Judge Sara Ellis, who had previously ordered immigration agents to show credentials and prohibited them from using dispersal tactics such as irritants without warning, voiced strong displeasure on Thursday regarding the DHS's continued aggressive tactics. "I reside in this city if people didn't realize," she declared on Thursday. "And I'm not blind, right?" Ellis further stated: "I'm getting images and seeing pictures on the television, in the newspaper, examining reports where I'm having apprehensions about my order being complied with." Wider Situation This latest requirement for immigration officers to wear recording devices occurs while Chicago has become the current epicenter of the federal government's removal operations in the past few weeks, with forceful agency operations. At the same time, locals in Chicago have been coordinating to prevent detentions within their communities, while federal authorities has described those activities as "disturbances" and declared it "is taking reasonable and constitutional steps to maintain the justice system and protect our agents." Recent Incidents On Tuesday, after immigration officers conducted a car chase and resulted in a car crash, individuals shouted "Ice go home" and threw items at the agents, who, apparently without warning, threw irritants in the direction of the crowd – and thirteen city police who were also on the scene. Elsewhere on Tuesday, a masked agent shouted expletives at demonstrators, ordering them to move back while restraining a young adult, Warren King, to the sidewalk, while a bystander yelled "he's an American," and it was unknown why King was under arrest. Over the weekend, when lawyer Samay Gheewala attempted to request agents for a warrant as they detained an immigrant in his community, he was forced to the ground so hard his fingers were bleeding. Public Effect Additionally, some local schoolchildren were required to be kept inside for recess after chemical agents permeated the area near their recreation area. Similar accounts have emerged across the country, even as previous enforcement leaders warn that apprehensions look to be non-selective and sweeping under the pressure that the Trump administration has placed on personnel to deport as many individuals as possible. "They show little regard whether or not those individuals present a threat to community security," a former official, a previous agency leader, remarked. "They simply state, 'Without proper documentation, you qualify for removal.'"