This is the order of events:

1. Eman Abdelhadi, an activist and professor of sociology at the University of Chicago, tweeted: “Oh Kamala is NOT ready for Chicago. But don’t worry; we’re ready for her."

2. Some people on twitter thought that this was a threat and called the feds.

3. A single FBI agent called Eman and asked her if she intended to hurt the democratic nominee to which her lawyer responded “no”.

That is literally all that happened.

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It’s also significantly easier to get ahold of.

Every Monday I am on average 50 IQ points less helpful than the rest of the week.

Probably mostly just shaken up and released. I think it was the National Guard, but I wasn’t about to get close enough to ask.

I was involved in the BLM protests of 2021. The cops were legitimately pulling people off the street into unmarked, black vans. Some of the people that were grabbed were not even involved in the protests, they were just outside past the citywide curfew.

I had heard about this happening in Oregon and Washington through the ever reliable internet, but I didn’t actually believe it until I saw it happen in my moderately sized Midwestern city.