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Green card holder with schizophrenia zip-tied on the street in Chicago, family searches for 10 days without his medication

2025·Location: Chicago, IL

Green card holder with schizophrenia zip-tied on the street in Chicago, family searches for 10 days without his medication
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A green card holder who has schizophrenia was stopped on the street in Chicago, zip-tied, and bundled into a red minivan on his way to the grocery store. His family only learned he had been detained from a Facebook video. They searched for him for 10 days — worried because he did not have his medication — but no agency could tell them where he was.

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