Judge Cites ICE Minneapolis Shooting at Midway Blitz Hearing

The Chicago federal judge overseeing a case challenging federal use of force during “Operation Midway Blitz” questioned plaintiffs’ motion to dismiss their own suit, given the possibility that immigration agents could return to the area en masse and the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis this week.

Judge Sara Ellis, who imposed a preliminary injunction governing federal agents’ use of force that was later stayed by the Seventh Circuit, said she knew she couldn’t “force plaintiffs to litigate a case that they don’t want to litigate.”

But Ellis certified a class of protesters, journalists, and religious practitioners, she ...