This is not OK
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I guess Kat Abughazaleh is not doing politics the right way:
Progressive House congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh has been indicted on federal charges stemming from protests outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility outside Chicago.
The former journalist now running as a Democrat in Illinois’ 9th District was charged with two counts: conspiracy to impede or injure an ICE officer, and assaulting or impeding that officer while he was engaged in his official duties.
The indictment specifically accuses Abughazaleh, among others, of banging aggressively on the windows, hood and other areas of the agent’s car, pushing against it to “hinder and impede its movement” and etching the word “PIG” on the car.
The indictment names five other defendants, at least some of whom appear to also be involved in progressive politics.
The charges — among the most serious recently brought against prominent protesters — carry prison sentences of up to six years on the conspiracy count and eight years for assaulting the officer, upon conviction.
Over the past month, as videos of protests, arrests and aggressive immigration enforcement raids have gone viral — and as right-wing politicians and influencers have beaten the drum for an even more aggressive response — federal law enforcement officials have prioritized the arrest and prosecution of individuals they claim are interfering with the crackdown.
Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old Palestinian American seen as a rising star in progressive politics, has been one of hundreds of protesters regularly gathered outside the Broadview ICE detention facility since ICE ramped up enforcement efforts in Chicago. Protesters there are calling for ICE to stop raids, release detainees and close the facility. The protests have become a central focus of Abughazaleh’s campaign.
Abughazaleh called the charges “political prosecution” and a “gross attempt to silence dissent, a right protected under the First Amendment.”
“I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win,” she wrote on X.
Videos of Abughazaleh’s interactions with federal agents have attracted attention from MAGA politicians and influencers who have called for her arrest. One video from Sept. 19 shows Abughazaleh being thrown to the ground by an ICE agent.
In the video, Abughazaleh is protesting outside the Broadview facility when federal agents, one saying, “Do not block the driveway,” walk toward protesters. One grabs Abughazaleh, drags her back and drops her onto the pavement. . . .
“I love watching communists get body slammed by ICE,” conspiracy theorist and unofficial Trump adviser Laura Loomer wrote on X.
I’m teaching a class on the crisis of the American legal system this semester — we just read The Anatomy of Fascism for some historical perspective — and it’s a very strange experience to be teaching a class at a public research university about the intersection of law and politics at this particular moment (The semester’s first reading was Trump v. United States, and there’s never been a more aptly titled case).
Everybody around here is walking around in a dream, as if what’s happening isn’t happening, but it is.