A federal judge called out Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino for lying as she dealt another legal defeat to President Donald Trump's crackdown on immigrants.
U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis ordered a preliminary injunction granting "complete relief" to Chicago residents and others who accused the Department of Homeland Security of using "extreme brutality" to violate their First Amendment rights, and she said during a court hearing Thursday that she found the testimony of Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents "not credible," reported WTTW-TV.
“The government would have people believe, instead, that the Chicagoland area is in a vice hold of violence, ransacked by rioters and attacked by agitators,” Ellis said before announcing her ruling. “That simply is untrue, and the government’s own evidence in this case belies that assertion.”
The judge singled out Bovino, who she said admitted to lying about whether a rock had struck him before using tear gas on protesters last month in Little Village.
However, no video has turned up showing Bovino being struck, and he had no visible head injury when testifying before Ellis four days later.
Ellis ordered Bovino to meet with her every weekday afternoon to discuss immigration enforcement in Chicago, which an appellate court overturned days later, but Ellis ordered him in her later ruling to obtain and wear a body-worn camera.
"At the judge's urging, a DOJ lawyer confirms that Gregory Bovino now has a body-worn camera," reported Chicago Sun-Times correspondent Jon Seidel.