Above the Law – “Sure, becoming an ICE agent sounds fun, but in between all the tear-gassing of clergy and shooting pepper balls at journalists, the job involves a lot of pesky paperwork. I mean, the government simply doesn’t pay enough with its [checks notes] $50,000 signing bonus, 25 percent premium pay, and $60,000 in student loan repayment to justify taking 20 minutes to write a book report about breaking someone’s car window! After a long day of pulling guns on combat veterans and telling them, “you’re dead, liberal,” who has the patience to sit down and chronicle these events just because it’s the quote-unquote “law”?…The latest installment in Judge Sara Ellis’s seemingly never-ending mission of reading the riot act to the actual riot police, arrived as a 233-page opinion that reads like the tutorial level for a role-reversed Wolfenstein game. Judge Ellis’s account of the Trump administration’s ongoing experiment with turning paramilitary thugs loose on Chicago includes body-cam footage contradicting official narratives, false testimony, and the aforementioned “agent rolled down his window, pointed a handgun out of it, and said ‘bang bang’ followed by something like ‘you’re dead, liberal.’” Agents claimed protesters threw bikes at them (footage showed agents grabbing and throwing the bikes). They said shields had nails in them (footage showed cardboard). They identified “Latin Kings” by their “maroon hoodies” (maroon isn’t a Latin King color, and one person in maroon was an alderman). And so on, and so on. But nestled among the higher voltage abuses is this gem of a footnote (flagged by the Chicago Tribune’s Jason Meisner):

The Court also notes that, in at least one instance, an agent asked ChatGPT to compile a narrative for a report based off of a brief sentence about an encounter and several images….