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Activist struggles are targeted. Cops are enforcers for crime bosses. Constitutional rights no longer matter. They're more artifact than reality.
On May 17, an NLG press release condemned a preemptive Bridgeport neighborhood raid. At least eight arrests were made. No one committed a crime.
Witnesses said cops burst into a six-unit apartment building violently with no search warrant. Doing so is illegal. They entered an apartment guns drawn.
One tenant was tackled in his kitchen. Two were handcuffed for two hours in their living room while police searched their apartment and a neighboring one.
A search warrant produced four hours later had no authorizing signature. Beer-making supplies and cell phones were seized.
Three youths were charged with possession of incendiary devices, material support for terrorism, and conspiracy to commit it.
Despite no evidence whatever proving it, allegations claimed planned use of Molotov cocktails and pipe bombs against police stations, financial institutions, Obama's Chicago headquarter, and Mayor Rahm Emanuel's home. Other baseless accusations were made.
On May 22, the Chicago Tribune headlined "Lawyers for 3 charged in firebomb plot say solitary confinement in jail is 'cruel and unusual,' " saying:
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