Welcome to The Beat. I'm Ari Melba. We're reporting on what you can see is clearly a breaking point

in the use of federal force over the weekend. And I'm going to just show you some key moments here,

and you can see with your own eyes what it looks like to be patrolled in America under the Trump

administration right now. President Trump is radically expanding the use

of military style, militarized, and sometimes actual military patrols. These are new images.

You could see federal agents and tactical gear in Portland, Oregon, brandishing their crowd control rifles and

their gas masks. There was a smoke grenade deployed. You can see that there. It's outside an

ICE detention facility in Chicago. We saw federal agents using tear gas. And that wasn't being used

for, say, an immigration raid alone or for, say, public safety.

There are times where lawful use of those methods can be for the public safety.

But much of this on screen with these images was to counter the public reaction from protesters,

including American citizens, exercising their rights against

this, what you see. This is America over the weekend. And there's a lot going on, and we'll get

into it. And if you watch this program, you know, we cover a lot of different things. But if you

lived on that blocker in that community, you can imagine

what a big deal it is. If you're in some other part of the country or a red state that's not getting

this kind of treatment, maybe you're less aware of it. But this is the news. We saw one agent seen

with a tear gas launcher. These federal forces under Trump are also clearly girded and ready for

escalation. You've got to pack those type of weapons to

then be ready to use them. The AP, nonpartisan outlet, reporting just the facts that the Trump

administration has helicopters and chemical agents ready to go as immigration agents are increasingly,

quote, aggressive in Chicago. They also ran a, quote, military-style

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