Milwaukee Bucks coach Doc Rivers used his Monday pregame press conference to express his frustrations with the mass arrests being conducted by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Chicago. The Bucks were preparing to play the Bulls in Chicago Sunday night, and as a Chicago native, Rivers felt compelled to speak about the matter.
" It bothers me ," Rivers said. "I'm trying, I'm trying. I mean, it's just awful what you watch and see, people getting zip tied. I mean, that's not this country. That's not what we're about."
ICE has been conducting mass arrests across Chicago since early September in a large-scale deportation effort at the direction of President Donald Trump, though a federal judge ruled recently to extend a consent decree that limits ICE's ability to arrest