Where Is DOJ Getting No-Billed Today?

Hint: We will celebrate with a shot of Malört.

On Wednesday morning the DOJ got no-billed again. This time the humiliation was delivered in Chicago, where grand jurors refused to indict Ray Collins and Jocelyne Robledo, a married couple who were arrested during a protest at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago.

It’s a pattern that’s become familiar as Trump’s shock troops fan out across blue states, kidnapping non-white people and staging deliberate provocations as a pretext to call up the military. After alienating the local population, the government can’t get grand juries to indict protesters on what are mostly bogus, trumped up charges. Go figure!

First ICE responds with violence to peaceful protest: In this case, after Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson sent DHS a letter on September 26, decrying the “relentless deployment of tear gas, pepper spray, mace, and rubber bullets” by ICE goons and accused the agency of “making war on my community.” ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons responded by accusing the mayor of being “party to the obstruction of justice” by enforcing local ordinances that bar cooperation with ICE. In fact, those ordinances have been repeatedly upheld by courts as legal. And ICE thug Gregory Bovino, CBP Commander of Operations, took a crew of henchmen to the local police station and promised to unleash a “shitshow.”

That evening, his men fired multiple volleys of tear gas and pepper balls at the crowd, and arrested multiple people, including journalists. Collins and Robledo were among four people actually charged.

Following its typical pattern, DHS then blasted out triumphant press releases congratulating themselves for taking out these dangerous criminals.

“Two protestors thought they’d spice things up by bringing loaded handguns. Instead of making their point, they now have to make bail,” Bovino tweeted.

ICE’s official account posted photos of the pair with a vow that “They will be prosecuted and held accountable.”

The government filed criminal complaints, a pre-indictment proceeding usually reserved for dangerous criminals who need to be taken off the street before being formally charged, but now routinely used by the Justice Department to generate content. In DC, they sent 20 cops and a camera crewto arrest Sean “Sandwich Man” Dunn, who tossed a hoagie at an ICE agent, and set the entire thing to music to flog on social media.