Former federal agent shares considerations about ways used towards protesters: “This isn’t policing”

Former ICE agent Eric Balliet stated most of the ways he is seeing being utilized by federal brokers towards protesters "isn’t policing and law enforcement" that he practiced for 25 years. But Customs and Border Protection commander Gregory Bovino, who’s main the federal brokers responding to protests in Chicago, disagrees. "If someone strays into a pepper ball, then that’s on them," Bovino stated in an interview with CBS News.

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