Walter Cronkite Called The 1968 Assault on Protesters In Chicago A “Police State”

New: The government does not track how often immigration agents hold Americans. So ProPublica did. We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. https://t.co/tX2vMR1dgz

— ProPublica (@propublica) October 16, 2025

Justice Kavanaugh wants you to know the inconvenience of a police state is the price of freedom. If something.

Band member accused of interfering with federal arrest of another, feds allege https://t.co/8fuQGOQCP0

— The Oregonian (@Oregonian) October 15, 2025

This is beginning to sound very familiar:

Federal prosecutor Katherine Ryyken called Korol’s alleged actions “violent.”

“There was a kick and a bite of an officer,” she said.

Kara Sagi, Korol’s assistant federal public defender, disputed Ryyken’s account.

“I disagree with the government’s characterization of her arrest in this case,” Sagi said, but provided no further details.

Sagi also said she was disturbed by the three-day delay in Korol’s initial appearance in federal court. Another person arrested Sunday outside the ICE building and held in Clark County was in federal court on Tuesday and released.

“For whatever reason, she was not. That was a devastating blow both to her and her family” and unnecessary, Sagi said. Korol is a child and family therapist and has a young daughter.

Once in custody, Korol declined to waive her Miranda rights and speak with any federal officers before she had a lawyer.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Youlee Yim You granted Korol’s release pending trial, ordering her to remain away from a designated geographical area around the ICE building and to seek permission from a pretrial officer before any international travel.

Federal officers had been clearing the vehicle entrance to the ICE building when officers trying to arrest a man rushed across the street.

Korol, holding her clarinet, was standing with band members on a gravel patch of land beside a fence when witnesses said federal officers chased the man through the band and took that person to the ground.

One video posted on social media showed Korol wedged between several officers, tripping over them and the detained suspect before she fell into the mud. An officer then pinned her as well. Another video shows a trombone player trying to pull the suspect on the ground away from officers as Korol is in the midst of the officers.

According to the federal affidavit unsealed Wednesday, “Korol attempted to interfere with the arrest by physically trying to pull the male away from officers” and a Federal Protective Service officer “pushed Korol away” and she fell.

The affidavit, written by a Federal Protective Service special agent, said Korol “locked her hands underneath her,” kicked the officer in the leg with her right foot while she was on the ground and then bit an officer’s left hand as he tried to grab her left hand to arrest her.

Band founder and trumpet player Miles Thompson said he “didn’t see anything like” what federal authorities alleged against Korol.

Thompson, who attended Korol’s hearing, said afterward that it was the first time a band member has been arrested since forming in 2017 during a large demonstration demanding that President Donald Trump release his tax returns.

Thompson, 43, said federal agents had just exited the ICE building and appeared to be chasing a protester when the protester and officer collided with band members, most of whom were wearing banana costumes.

Arrest of band member A video screenshot of the federal arrest of clarinet player Oriana Korol, seen in green jacket on the ground, on Sun., Oct. 12, 2025, after federal officers barreled into the band while chasing after a male suspect.U.S. Attorney's Office

In a separate interview Tuesday, e said Korol “was pinned against this fence, with whoever they’re trying to detain at her feet, and she’s just kind of stuck. ... Then suddenly one of the other officers just tackled her. I didn’t see anything that warranted any kind of arrest.”

Thompson said one officer did “like a crazy, horizontal diving tackle of this guy straight into our band,” which knocked over a drummer who had to go to the hospital and get stitches.

Korol’s parents also attended Wednesday’s brief hearing. They moved to Oregon from Vermont four months ago to be closer to their daughter and granddaughter.

Korol’s father, Omar Johnson, said they were able to talk by phone and video chat with Korol while she was in jail. Her glasses and her plastic clarinet were broken in the scrum, he said.

“We’re all just kind of in shock,” he said.

He said he believes his daughter will prevail in challenging her arrest, calling the allegation an “extremely ‘Trump-ed’ up assault charge.”

“Who’s assaulting who is the real question?” he said.

So federal agents chase a protester (why?) into a crowd and the crowd “gets in the way” just as the fence did (but both stopped the fleeing suspect, so, you’re welcome), and the agents fumbled over people and charge them for “being in the way”?

Yeah. I don’t want to be the prosecutor on that case. Neither, I suspect, does the prosecutor.

What would Cronkite call Portland and Chicago now?