π¨BREAKING: In a Chicago suburb, a U.S. citizen was observing an adult man in a black ski mask, who she believed was an ICE agent, driving around a HIGH SCHOOLβ¦
β¦and police pulled HER over.
Not the MASKED MAN driving around the Schaumburg high schoolβ¦
The officer told her she was being detained for βstalking.β
Even though, when she asked who she was allegedly stalkingβ¦ the cop admitted he didnβt even know yet, and would βfind out in just a moment.β
So, just to clarifyβ¦
The cop hadnβt confirmed who the MASKED MAN was.
He hadnβt determined whether he was a federal agent, or why he was driving around a HIGH SCHOOL in a SKI MASK.
But the cop had already decided the woman, OBSERVING THE MASKED MAN, was the problem.
Americans have a First Amendment right to observe what government officials are doing in public.
If this was a federal agentβ¦ documenting their activity isnβt a crime.
Itβs accountability.
And if it wasnβt a federal agentβ¦ most people would expect the police to be concerned about a MASKED MAN driving around a HIGH SCHOOL.
Not the woman observing him.
In a country where school shootings are a real and constant threat to studentsβ¦ thatβs the bare minimum our law enforcement should be doing.
But when she asked why a MASK MAN, driving around a HIGH SCHOOL, didnβt concern him, the officer said:
βEveryone wears masks nowadays.β
So, if someone can be detained for peacefully observing, what they reasonably believe is government activityβ¦
While police focus more on the observer than the MASKED MAN around a HIGH SCHOOLβ¦
Then we have some serious questions that need to be askedβ¦
@GovPritzker