The Trump administration is openly flouting a federal judge’s order by refusing to produce drone footage of the president’s senior immigration enforcer hurling tear-gas into a crowd.

On Oct. 23, Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino, 55, was filmed launching a canister towards a crowd of protesters, in the Little Village area of Chicago, Illinois, which led him to be hauled into court to explain his actions.

In a social media post afterwards, the department described the incident as a “riot,” using edited body-cam and drone footage to claim a rock had “struck Chief Greg Bovino in the head,” and that his team had been surrounded by a “hostile mob,” requiring the deployment of gas.

In an earlier hearing, Obama-appointed Judge Sara L. Ellis had granted expedited discovery and or

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