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The grand jury transcripts from the \u201cBroadview Six\u201d case, in which the federal government tried to charge six Chicagoans with felony conspiracy for their participation in an anti-ICE protest, were released this week, offering a rare look inside an aggressive federal prosecution.\u00a0<\/p>

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The Broadview case collapsed in late May amid prosecutorial-misconduct allegations, a month after the harshest charges against the protesters were dropped. The transcripts show unnamed jurors repeatedly pressing prosecutor Sherri Mecklenburg on why defendants faced assault and conspiracy charges when the ICE agent whose vehicle they blocked was unharmed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis person wasn\u2019t harmed, but by extension impeding and assaulting his vehicle, that constitutes simple assault?\u201d one juror asked. \u201cThe law doesn\u2019t require that you actually touch him,\u201d Mecklenburg said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The juror then asked whether the ICE agent had the right to drive into the protesters. \u201cSo if the person comes and stands in front of my car, do I have the right to drive against him?\u201d the juror asked. Mecklenburg brushed it off. \u201cThat didn\u2019t happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt happened,\u201d the juror responded. \u201cHe moved.\u201d In video from the protest, the ICE agent\u2019s car can, indeed, be seen the crowd of protesters.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In another interaction, Mecklenburg explained the requirements of a charge of \u201cconspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer,\u201d which the Trump administration has repeatedly brought against ICE protesters.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAre you actually presenting any new actual facts or just a different viewpoint on your side?\u201d an unnamed grand juror asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cOkay. I\u2019m feeling the skepticism already. Are you going to be able to listen with an open mind? Tell me the truth,\u201d Mecklenburg said. <\/p>

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\u201cI heard this case like last week, and I thought it was a crock of shit then and I still think it is,\u201d the juror said. Prosecutors required multiple attempts across three separate days to secure an indictment\u2014and a visit from Chicago\u2019s U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros, who gave a speech to the grand jury on the importance of impartiality, according to a special report released by his office.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Broadview case is part of a larger federal effort to silence dissent. Last September, Donald Trump explicitly directed federal prosecutors to target ICE protesters, telling US attorneys\u2019 offices to \u201ccharge all such persons with the highest provable offense available under the law.\u201d Some prosecutors resigned rather than comply. Others followed orders: in Chicago, in Los Angeles, and in Washington State, prosecutors came for ICE protesters.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe right does have a bloodlust to imprison dissenters,\u201d Kat Abughazaleh, a former congressional candidate and Mother Jones<\/em> contributor, said in an interview May 27. \u201cI and a bunch of other people got hit by a car while exercising our First Amendment rights, and then the federal government tried to charge us with conspiracy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The conspiracy charges could have put the six defendants, who are all involved in local Democratic politics, in jail for the better part of a decade, all for standing in the way of one ICE vehicle. \u201cThe conspiracy charge got dropped about a month ago when we asked to see the unredacted grand jury transcripts,\u201d Abughazaleh said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government was embarrassed, just as they were embarrassed that ICE shot Joselyn Walsh, my co-defendant\u2019s, guitar. And they should be embarrassed. This is absolutely pathetic behavior from supposedly the strongest government in the world.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

In Spokane, Washington, three people were found guilty last month of the same charge the Broadview protesters were charged with: \u201cconspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer.\u201d Cases against ICE protesters in Texas and Minnesota are ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>

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\u201cI think the goal is to make an example out of us,\u201d Abughazaleh said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/article>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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