Feds Forced to Drop Case Against “Broadview Six” Anti-ICE Protesters

Feds Forced to Drop Case Against “Broadview Six” Anti-ICE Protesters

The charges against the remaining “Broadview Six” protesters were dropped Thursday, in a win for anyone who has protested ICE activity under the Trump administration.The six protesters were hit with felony conspiracy charges carrying a maximum sentence of six years in prison after they surrounded an ICE agent’s car in the Chicago suburb of Broadview in September in an attempt to slow it down. It was alleged the protestors “pushed and scratched and otherwise damaged,” the vehicle, according to th...

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