CHICAGO — A citizen filmmaker and journalist is chronicling the ways ICE and Border Patrol activity infringe on people’s Fourth Amendment rights.
Last week, Go Fourth Media released three documentary shorts on its YouTube channel as part of the project. The Chicago-based, not-for-profit grassroots media organization was established “to protect constitutional rights through bold storytelling by experienced filmmakers,” according to its channel description.
Andrew Freer, a longtime Chicago resident and founder of Go Fourth Media, said he was inspired to begin his work when ICE started ramping up its immigration enforcement efforts in Chicago in September.
“I was obviously very disturbed. I heard about them going to day cares, libraries, the local children’s museum,” he said. “We have masked, armed men, a whole paramilitary group, going around in our streets right now with little oversight.”…