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It’s an obvious misunderstanding in the heat of the moment— she was throwing objections at the car, and the agents missed the ions.

I know that when I throw things at law enforcement and end up getting arrested because of it, they always just let me go without charges later.

I'm sorry, but the resemblance is uncanny

I was going to say ICE has a (Congress mandated) rule of 100 mi from the border as their operating zone, but they are well over double that zone here. Disgusting.

This actually applies to within of 100 miles of any point of entry, which includes international airports. So essentially any big city in the US.

For what?

shakedown WGN in court with legal threats for this.

If I had to guess, this is going to get a lot of attention from people in the city. A (most likely) left leaning lawyer from Chicago with connections and a never ending supply of legal aid is probably the last person low level DHS agents being represented by "whoever is left," would want to try and battle in court over violation of civil rights. Especially, a case of physical assault and unlawful arrest and detainment made with zero evidence and zero charges even pressed, on top of a contempt of court order and hopefully something like damages to her or her employer's reputation.

It depends. Are you talking about somewhere with the rule of law? Or a dictatorship like the USA?

Legally the time limit varies, but you generally do have to be arraigned by a judge within a certain amount of time from the arrest. You also have the right to a speedy trail, but that right is often waived. For both "clocks" there are a number of things that can pause or reset the clock, because nothing is really simple in a federalized system.

Also, according to judges, there are a number of policing actions that are being done in violation of the law, so they might violate the laws in other ways too.

I don't think so? I didn't even know that was a trope Normally they just don't forcibly handcuff people for no reason and place them under arrest (at least with a huge crowd watching and recording).

Typically what happens when police want to charge you with something, but they don't have evidence, they'll say we want you to come in and answer some questions, and it's your right to refuse. Bc if they could actually force you to come in, they would just arrest you instead of asking.

I'm not sure how it works in cases where some random person apparently targeted you and called for your arrest without any sort of step 2 plan other than maybe hoping you just wouldn't ask for a lawyer and refuse to talk?

If they held you until your lawyer arrived, even a mediocre lawyer wouldn't say after 24 hours we can go, they would ask what you're being charged with, and if the cops didn't have anything they would say we're leaving right now (which is probably what happened here).

I know when the feds raided that apartment building in Chicago they broke down doors, pulled people from their beds, and put at least one elderly man in handcuffs for absolutely no reason, and refused to let him contact a lawyer until they could figure out who he was.

That is even worse than charging somebody with "precrime." Imagine some masked assholes breaks down your door, pulls you out of bed, puts you in cuffs, ignores your requests to contact lawyer, and tells you to chill the fuck out until they can figure out if you're a threat.