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Residents press Broadview board over ICE facility, protest curfew and police departures
Summary
Protesters and nearby residents used public comment at Broadview’s Sept. 29 meeting to challenge a village executive order limiting protests, accuse police leadership of creating a hostile workplace, and seek exemptions for volunteer first-aid services; Mayor Thompson defended balancing protest rights with resident safety and called for federal inspection of the ICE facility.
At a Sept. 29 Broadview Village Board meeting, residents and protesters used the public-comment period to press the mayor and trustees over activities at a nearby ICE facility, the village’s new protest-hour rule and what several speakers described as leadership failures at the Broadview Police Department.
Angela Patterson told the board she was “here tonight to bring attention to a crisis of leadership within the Broadview Police Department,” and listed a string of recent resignations and internal investigations, saying, “Where is the accountability?” Patterson named several officers and alleged nearly half of the 25-officer department had been under investigation over…
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