>> Good evening and thanks for joining us on the week in review.

I'm Nick Lumber, attorneys for Border Patrol shooting victim are Omar Martinez say newly released evidence shows agents saying it's time to get aggressive and heaping praise on the shooter.

>> We live in a strange time right now.

We cannot trust our federal government after winning the release of a trove of photos, videos and text messages.

Martinez now plans to sue the federal government.

issues here.

>> We fix those issues.

We've had great success with this operation and live in Minnesota safe.

>> Federal officials say despite 2 deaths, the immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota was a success.

It's unfortunate that this administration has shown so much and in the streets working people, local leaders vow to fight for disaster relief money.

The Trump administration denied despite residents still struggling after major storms last summer.

Meantime, Chicago school board members accused the mayor of sabotaging the search for a new CPS CEO Illinois's latest lawsuit against the feds fighting massive cuts to public health funding aimed at replacing lead pipes and stopping new HIV infections.

And it's a battle of the state legislatures as Illinois and Indiana lawmakers ramp up efforts to land a new Bear Stadium.

>> now to our week in review panel.

Joining us are Justin Kaufmann of Axios.

Chicago remember mean of choppy Chicago.

So if you Sherry of the Chicago Sun-Times and all the Lowry with WBEZ, thank you all for being here.

Let's get right to it.

You know, suggesting we just saw that we're finally getting some of that evidence out are Martinez and her attorneys fought to get released after the federal case against her was dropped.

What stood out to you?

Yeah, it's amazing to me what what a story you think about what was it in October when this happened in Brighton Park and >> and this is when you know, when trying to figure out what the story was and you heard from DHS and they said that she used a vehicle to ram and she used as a weapon and a lot of was like, okay, we'll check this out now after the that the deaths of Renee Good and Alex spread in Minnesota, you look back on that story saying that was You know, obviously, as Martinez survived, which shot 5 times.

But that's that story is very similar to look everything that the that all of that evidence that came out, it shows a pattern.

And it also, as you said in the clip, lenient here makes you wonder about how much you can you can trust government and what they say because DHS, they came very strong on Miramar, Martinez's case in October.

They said this is what she did.

She was a hostile insurgent.

Whatever was the words against stick tariff, domestic terrorists.

And now you're seeing with this evidence very similar to what we saw in video.

That's the big difference.

If there wasn't video in Brighton Park like there was in Minnesota.

Yeah, you know, all than we saw one agent saying it, it's it's time to get aggressive colleagues of the agent who shot Martinez, you know, sort of hyping him up.

reas surprised by the sort of aggressive tone or not necessarily because it kind of matches a lot of the public posture has I mean, not only as just spoke to not only has the narrative been around these agents their safety being at risk and needing to be aggressive, but >> been very congratulatory that there text messages where he was kind of The officer shot Martinez was getting pats on the back kind at you know, kind acquiescence in terms being in that the aggressive form.

So, yeah.

>> You know, remove Martinez's attorney says she was the wrong person to mess with.

It's now planning to bring a suit of her own.

Do you expect to see perhaps a wave of lawsuits like this given the number of people that have been injured and of killed during the immigration crackdown.

Yeah, absolutely.

And I think that I mean, you've seen Illinois lawmakers, state lawmakers across the country.

>> Federal lawmakers push back on this and you've all seen the Trump administration kind of come to the table and in, you know, say, OK, maybe we should 10 something different here.

So think, you know, reactions like that can certainly open up the window or the door rather you know, legal challenges.

Yeah.

And when there's such clear video evidence to the contrary of I'm saying, as you mentioned, you know, Sophie, that the federal case against Martinez, of course, fell apart.

There was also a a >> Cook County case related to a protest that brought you.

Tell us what happened there.

There are a lot of Cook County still ongoing, but >> this particular protest that happened in mid November.

This was a group that showed up for any clergy led protests outside Broadview as they got closer to the actual facility in hopes that people in care of them praying they were met with a line of local law enforcement.

Some scuffles broke out.

And ultimately 21 people arrested the Cook County sheriffs did better resting, said this group had left their designated protest zone was unlawfully occupying the roadway.

There.

But as you mentioned know, Cook County State's attorney's have dropped charges against almost all of those people.

And it's interesting to see that, you know, some of these protesters have been charged at a time when the Cook County State's attorney is.

>> Seems to be hesitant to try and go after some of the yes here.

Yes, this is happening in a moment when Eileen O'Neill Burke is certainly under a lot of pressure, too, sort of do anything about what happened this fall they've been very clear their stance that they, you know, are an agency that to make charging decisions.

They don't investigate crimes.

This is so you know, what we saw this week in terms of dropping the charges within their powers.

So we'll see if we see any more of that.

And that's a that's a tough story to you because you're talking about.

>> In other cities, you're seeing politicians are lawmakers in sync when they come up.

They're not here in Chicago.

You saw that the mayor come out and say we're going to we're going to go after these ice agents that they do anything wrong.

And then it almost felt like a day later, the Cook County State's attorney saying will you didn't talk to me?

not going to go after That is so different than what you see in Minnesota or Philadelphia or other cities that have essentially brought together Democrats to say we're not going to that point.

A lot of people are pointing to sort of Minneapolis or Minnesota as an example of what state's attorney could be doing.

Both there we have the state's attorney, local politicians, the attorney general for the state and local law enforcement, all working.

>> In tandem to sort of make that happen, which has not been the case here.

Yeah, of course.

You know, real perk and Johnson, both Democrats but very different flavors.

That's too, which could be contributing to a lot of this.

>> You know, really, you mentioned the Trump administration, you know, potentially trying to turn down the temperature in Minnesota.

Of course, we supporters are Tom Homan brought in kind of along those lines to replace Greg Bovino.

But know, is back social media.

He's been taunting Governor Pritzker, you know, is that perhaps an indication that President Trump is eager to see both, you know, in some of his more aggressive tactics back in the streets.

>> I I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that that's, you know, I mean, I think Trump has been pretty complimentary of of you know, up until, you know, the he was placed on leave or, you know, removed from Minnesota.

>> And so I wouldn't I wouldn't put anything past this administration to kind of maybe change their tune in.

>> Put him back in the mix or at least see those tactics that we saw with Border Patrol under.

yeah, you know, come personality, national media star.

Yeah.

After they did, campaign ended here believe he came back for real short spell.

>> They've been big on promoting the activity so I could see them making another kind of central casting moving and dropping them.

You know, here and there not.

I mean, it was I everybody talked about when when the drawdown happened in Chicago that they be back in the back we heard the numbers, thousands, ICE agents, immigration, Border Patrol agents coming back here in March.

It's February right there drawing down in Minnesota.

It is not on her at doesn't.

It makes logical sense to me that the next move would be not be surprised if in March we start seeing more and more people coming here.

More and more agents coming here and all of what happened last fall ratcheting up this spring.

Right.

And even though obviously Tom Homan is.

>> Maybe not quite as much bigger, a different type of character.

There's still the same messaging going on.

is the same thing they said when they left Chicago that.

>> Crime is down.

We did a lot of good.

You know, unclear about where we're headed next.

In this case, they have mentioned that some of these agents might be going home but still open wherever they're needed.

Next was the language.

Yeah, more of a traditional federal certainly, you know, singing the same tune as the Trump administration.

>> Well, you know, we're talking about all these issues related to the Department of Homeland Security just in Congress has been sent home without a funding deal.

Of course, that's not going to anything the immigration enforcement.

But this is folks like the How much of a where are these shutdowns on federal workers?

Little political calculus by Republicans in the we were starting the midterm primary spread coming up here in a month's time.

>> let's say that there is airport delays like there were back in October November because a partial shutdown.

And what the reason is Democrats will want accountability from ICE agents.

They want.

And we've been asking for the moon.

What they're asking for is no masks.

They're asking for names on.

Sohn uniforms are asking for more due process, things that we know when it comes to law enforcement or what is law enforcement, Illinois in Chicago.

So those things are going to play out and you comments and Republicans like to use the were common sense.

But you've seen a lot be Americans say common sense says there's a lot of chaos in the street around the way this is going with ICE agents.

We'd like to see them be a little bit more accountable or maybe more law enforcement And so if you're going to fight and shut down the government over name tags or not taking masks off, that is that's a political risk for the Republican Party going into a very unpopular midterm cycle.

Yeah, especially the kind of thing that you know, where this a Democratic administration, you know, having agents operate in that manner.

You have to imagine a lot of Republicans would say this is exactly the overreach that we want about.

This is I think there's some gamesmanship happening on both sides.

I think the Democrats see this potentially some red bridge here.

This is this is this is a department that the that the president and Republicans have see a lot of value in.

>> I thought it was there was potential compromise, particularly around the issue of body cams and more training.

Heard Republican voices saying we're open to that.

So I thought maybe there could have at least been a deal on that may be extended a little bit.

Give them some more time.

But both sides seem to be kind of want to hold the line for everything.

And this is not going to talk left left radical left.

Bernie Sanders left left.

Let's defund abolish ICE.

Right?

The Democrats are willing to give the money to ice for the for the operations to continue these that we're talking about very specific law enforcement sort of accountability measures that they're looking for and Republicans are are are digging their heels in the sand saying we're not going to do it.

Yeah.

One of the that really struck me, I forgot what reporting it was.

But mention the White House was unwilling to concede on, you know, ceasing the practice of racial profiling interest.

Yeah.

And that's something that they've had Supreme Court backed them up on.

So they know, they don't necessarily to.

We'll all your colleague estranged Kang had a piece this week about some Chicagoans hit by Midway Blitz who we haven't heard as much from.

This is Chicago's Asian community.

Tell us about that.

Yeah.

So what they found was through some data that has been put out by a group that has really become like the go to source in terms of data because there nothing that's really coming out of the administration.

>> Show that Nash nationally about 1000 patients were picked up in immigration enforcement since the beginning of Trump's second term.

And believe over 100 or so here in Chicago during the points in particular and she highlighted one particular family, a Pakistani family father was actually deported.

And how that community had been very quiet about about this.

The sense that that would shame the sense that, you know, that could start a rumor mill people very insular and so on and so forth.

But I has the story points out.

Investors reporting this is a community that thought it was safe.

The way I think a number immigrant communities may have thought outside of Latin America, Mexico, in particular.

And what they're finding is that is not true at all.

And it has helped raise voices and started some conversations among different types of immigrant community saying, OK, we really need to kind of band together and fight this investment we And I found it really notable in the story.

They mention this phrase and or do and it's in the face to its low.

Get going in that that means what will people say?

It's something.

>> In my culture like it's very common.

And that really I totally saw that family like I can totally see the Stanley sitting down and having a conversation that we cannot even let the club people closest to us know about this because it's embarrassing.

There's some really poignant about that.

And what's one thing?

I think this law, some people think about immigration is largely thought of is like a Latin American kind of issue.

>> The countries, China and India, really rival Mexico.

Now in terms of immigration numbers coming to the U.S.

side lasted for 2 years or so.

So this is by far a kind of a global thing think about the broader community.

It's affected by what's happening right now.

Yeah, very interesting reporting.

All right.

turning to some city news, Justin, after many weeks of wondering what Mayor Johnson was going to do about the hemp and the pass City Council.

>> We finally have an It has been vetoed a nice Friday afternoon news to tradition yeah, mayor chose to veto an ordinance that city council passed with 32 votes.

Marty Quinn 13th Ward said, you know what?

We're going to fanned essentially hemp-derived THC, intoxicating, hemp products.

>> You're talking about these kind of pop-up dispensaries.

They can't.

They're not called dispensaries are called whatever you issue for years with.

But that didn't see like we're seeing on the screen now.

But those those places kind of popped up.

And there are a little bit unregulated around that, you know, because you may be familiar with, like legal cannabis shop rain.

All the legal marijuana different.

And so finally, after after years of trying to find a way to do this, Marty Quinn said let's ban He's saying it's not safe for kids right?

So they passed that they got to do and the and the mayor said, no, I don't like it.

I don't like what does the small business at all like what it does to the climate here?

I don't think that it's fair, necessarily and applauded by small businesses across Chicago because it really does set up and change the way that they see.

You know, I imagine if you had this business that was kind of encouraged by the federal government in 2018.

But the over the federal farm bill.

>> Figure out how you can innovate around him.

Do what you can do.

They figured it out and then have municipality's come in and say, no, you can't.

That's that's a problem for for business climate.

So Marty Quinn says he said to me today that he is not going to override this veto.

He does not have enough votes.

He got 32.

He said this is was the hardest roll call and he's yeah.

As as alderman and to try and get 32 to get 34 to override, can't do it.

And so help is not banned in Chicago, although there is the looming specter of a federal ban.

But who knows that that actually makes into effect at different show?

don't get out ahead of your skis, Bloomberg.

All right.

Fair enough.

Okay.

So some other city council action this week.

A key committee passed a measure allowing residents to submit photos of people violating parking laws.

>> In the hopes of the city issuing a citation.

You know, I wonder probably feels good to Narcan.

Somebody parked like a. But wonder whether this might face legal challenges because folks are going to say, well, this wasn't a city worker out in the field making the call.

Yeah, certainly as someone who's fought parking I mean, I understand like frequent off and I think that's Milwaukee.

That's actually >> Sponsor list spot is of right.

Yeah, it certainly has.

A driver is a walk or is it occasionally biker?

there's some hazards Rolla trying to find a solution.

But yeah, interesting.

It looks like there's going to be some sort of like Tester group individuals are going respond to these things.

Then maybe a specific dispatch system where people are going to immediately a rabbi at the blocked by clean and get it themselves are not.

We'll see as a frequent cycles and interest in shaking.

I don't think the unpopular saw and it's hard.

I don't like the idea that my city, my fellow city, neighbor, he's got to get their cell phone out of.

I have to double part little survey and stamina double park is not good blocking stuff, all that kind of stuff.

But I don't know if I'm going how how people are going to react to their neighbors, grabbed cell phone to me like I'm going to put this on for one water.

3, 1, 1, I didn't.

I didn't think the folks who are paid to do that kind of work needed and help.

The one thing I think the Starr knows also highlight is the cycle mafia all of, you know, though, old tweeting right very informed, very very vocal community they've been fighting for protected bike lanes and reforms were a number of years.

So this thing is just the latest manifestation of that can be very interesting to see where this all goes.

>> Alright, Remus Education news.

Several school board members out saying you're pretty damning charge against the mayor essentially saying.

>> He's messing with the search for a new CEO.

What did we hear from them?

You know, this was yesterday 6 of the boards, elected members issued a statement or letter, whatever you want to call it, announcing essentially that.

>> The board had parted ways with the search for him that they advisory group to help with their CEO search.

The district has been without a permanent CEO since last summer.

And and now they're calling the 6 members who represent a minority of the 21 member board are now calling for the district to keep interim CEO Macklin King in place until the new school board is elected and seated next January.

These claims, you know, they've claimed the mayor's office mayor's allies, including appointed school board members have sabotage the process that they've we know leaked names of finalist candidates to publications.

My own is included in that location.

And and, you know, done number of things to kind get in the way of the process.

And the mayor's office has denied these claims.

So if some appointed school board members, I think the real question ahead who's going finish overseeing this process?

Right?

Almost staying on for another month.

And then that's kind of Yeah, I think the biggest question is whether he could have a new CEO, right to get any sense of where this goes from here where and when we might get, you know, a search process back up and running for President Hardin has said, you know, in a statement from the board yesterday said that applicant the application window is if closed on February 6, they're They're accepting any more applications from every indication it seems like maybe they're narrowing folks down.

But all the board has said enough officially is that they will have a new CEO before next school year next year starts in August.

So, I look right.

You all done.

But say that just went up to a point terrible idea.

But the but >> I can't think of a time in which there was an interim at the at CPS leaving CPS as long as And I'm trying to go back go back to Paul Vallas and Gary Chico days, you know, even before that.

But it seems like.

>> This is a different type of government where the is not just that the CPS and CTA.

There's tha there's a lot of time like I think there's a lot of like to in Trump's and we're still searching for leaders of these different departments.

And that's that's a different approach than mayors in the past contentious times because we just made the last CEO.

We had just all of the drama around that.

So I'm not totally surprised with that.

It's taken a while to kind of pull this together.

You got to remember that this is 21 member.

Half elected board is new for Chicago, right?

you know, the mayor mayors in the past have had total control over that is not the case anymore.

And so you know that in that way, maybe it's not so surprising.

You have to imagine Mayor Johnson is missing that idea Chicago mayor's once or had over the school pride.

>> Alright, well, one were interesting education piece I wanted to touch on.

There's a slew of ballot measures urging the governor to join this federal tax credit program for private school scholarships who's backing this push.

So fact behind this pellet advisory question, which is going to show up probably about a 3rd of Illinois counties is Illinois policy.

It's libertarian-leaning organization that frequently criticizes left-leaning Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Teachers, Union.

>> And this group wants to send a signal to Governor Pritzker that here.

You know, we're going to ask this advisory question to a bunch of voters and I think their hope is that voters will say they want this tax credit scholarship program, which is supposed to, in effect, send private dollars to scholarships for public private and homeschool kids.

And this was to give tax credit incentives to those donors.

Pritzker is under pressure from both sides here on top 10 to stay And so that's kind of the idea behind the push.

But viewers and voters should know it's a nonbinding advisory reference important to say.

>> All right.

Well, Sophie, the the family of Dexter read, they're calling on Chicago's police watchdog to release a report into the actions of the cops in that fatal shooting.

What we know about what might be in that report >> It's not totally clear at the moment, but that investigation into the wrongdoing, potential wrongdoing of those officers has been completed by the oversight Civilian Office Police Accountability.

And what we can glean from city records is that of the 15 allegations that the agency launched against the 5 officers involved in this as people remember fatal shooting of 26 Field X period following a traffic stop on the West side of the 15 allegations launched against them.

Only one was sustained.

We don't know what that allegation and maybe excessive force or, you know, you know something regarding the stop.

But we don't know what officer it is.

They're seeking to discipline.

But there is that one sustained allegations.

The family really wants this report out.

Now.

It's over with the Charlotte Police Department at this point for review.

But they want to see the final results and they want the public to see the final results.

Yeah, a lot of interest in that case.

Yeah.

I think that that the the way to stop began and then the fact that there were 4 tac team officers, I mean, like the this is CPD.

These are the folks that are asked really kind of take care of the worst.

>> Crime problems of our city and for them to be performing a traffic stop raises a lot of questions about whether that's essence of the this was a group unleashed almost 100 bullets in a matter of minutes.

I mean, Dexter, he was shot 13 times officers for continuing fire weapons even after fallen to the ground.

>> All Walden, we've got just a little under a minute left, but some more lawsuits ahead.

It would seem over disaster relief for Chicago residents over public health funding for the state of Illinois.

Is this just going to be the next 3 years of these back and forth battle?

I think so.

I mean, even in one comment this latest battle, the president even said, you know, that some liberal courts are probably going to overturn >> This is the way administration wants to govern.

They want to go after enemies want to go after political opponents.

And if it doesn't work, it doesn't work.

But they sticking with that game plan apparently.

All right.

Well, no enemies at this table.

All friends.

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Rima mean?

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Have a great weekend.

All right.

Well, the Super Bowl is over or should I say the football season still going in Chicago Stadium season?

Just we've got a new contender for U.S.

I guess you can look to Portage, Indiana and how its harbor.

That's what they're calling it.

A nice, really good job with the graphic designs to show exactly what it might look like on the lakefront there in quarters.

But >> and make no mistake about it there, their interest in Arlington Heights.

But this next week, you're going to see movement in Indiana as they try to pass this bill out of the state house there.

That will be important because that will essentially give the opportunity for Indiana to write a check.

Yeah.

And that's what everybody is waiting on.

If Indiana going to save one Illinois, forget about infrastructure.

How do we pay for the whole thing?

And session's of middle of march, snappy little session they're looking to get this bill done by February 7.10, so pay close attention.

I think that you're 19, but pay close attention because that's coming up.

And that will be why.

That's why the Bears haven't made a as they kind of see what's happening with the Illinois JB Pritzker and infrastructure costs.

Yeah, I harbor has a nice a litter bring to a to give most passion made possible.

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