Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has officially launched what she calls the Ice Accountability Project, with a website where people in the Chicago area can share information and videos to document alleged “criminal, abusive conduct” by federal agents.
“We aim to preserve evidence, to facilitate transparency and accountability,” she said during a press conference at the Union League Club in the Loop. “We also intend to unmask those agents who have been alleged to have committed crimes or engaged in other unlawful conduct.”
The former federal prosecutor said she has “deep, abiding respect for the work that federal law enforcement does every day, when they do things the right way, when they follow their oath, when they follow their training.”
She said she can’t just stand by and watch what she’s seeing happening.
“What is happening now deeply resonates with me,” she said. “And we abhor the state-sponsored terror that has been visited upon many across Chicagoland.”
Lightfoot said several others with legal and law enforcement backgrounds are part of the initiative, without naming names.
She said they’re fighting “an oppressive, unconstitutional and downright mean-spirited federal government.”
She said she’s already been threatened by the US Attorney General, Pam Bondi, and she expects to be targeted by the federal government.
She said she not going to be intimidated by Bondi or anyone else in the federal government “in the face of so much harm”
Lightfoot is encouraging people to share instances of alleged abuse at reporticenow.com.