Days before trial, federal prosecutors abruptly dropped all charges against a group of anti-ICE protesters in Chicago after stunning admissions that serious “mistakes” were made, sparking allegations of a wider cover-up and threats of sanctions.
The high-profile case against the “Broadview Six” followed the Trump administration’s surge of federal immigration officers into the nation’s third-largest city, fueling a wave of demonstrations outside an ICE facility in the Chicago suburbs.
