The Wire - November 20, 2025

//The Wire//2300Z November 20, 2025//
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//BLUF: ARSON ATTACK OCCURS ON BLUE LINE TRAIN IN CHICAGO. MASS GANG SHOOTING WOUNDS 5X BYSTANDERS IN NEWARK. SUSPECT AT LARGE FOLLOWING SUBWAY STABBING IN NEW YORK. ICE OPERATIONS CONTINUE AMID LOCAL RESISTANCE.//

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Florida: Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick has been indicted by a grand jury for embezzling $5 million of FEMA funding that was distributed due to the Hurricane Milton disaster response.

Analyst Comment: As a reminder, Rep. Cherfilus was in office during the infamous Hurricane Milton scandal, which saw FEMA officials ordering their employees to not provide aid to residences that had Trump signs in their front yard. FEMA supervisor Marn'i Washington was fired by FEMA, but was not prosecuted for her crime of violating the Hatch Act.

Illinois: Yesterday an arson attack was reported on a Blue Line train, which involved an assailant dousing a woman with a flammable liquid before setting her on fire. The attacker has been identified as Lawrence Reed and was arrested shortly after the attempted murder.

Analyst Comment: Reed has a criminal record spanning nearly four decades, which have involved him being arrested and released 72 times, including around a dozen times for felony crimes. Several of these crimes involved arson, but each time he was arrested he was released. In at least one case the judge released him from a psych ward...because he was deemed too dangerous to remain in custody as he would repeatedly and violently assault staff members at the ward. He was released into the general public with an ankle monitor instead. After his arrest for setting this woman on fire, he was brought before Magistrate Judge Laura McNally, with court reporters documenting what happened. Judge McNally told Reed that "When you walked in here, I presumed you to be innocent of these charges". Reed then replied "I'm guilty" before continuing his belligerent behavior in the courtroom.

New Jersey: Surveillance footage has come to light pertaining to a mass shooting that was reported in Newark two days ago. Rival gangs conducted a skirmish in the street, and due to the "spray and pray" manner of the engagement, 5x bystanders where shot as well. Two people were killed during the engagement, including a 10-year-old boy.

New York: Another subway stabbing took place a few days ago, with the NYPD releasing the photo of the suspect this morning. An unidentified black male slashed a passenger with a sharp object while transiting on the E train. No other details were provided regarding the attack.

Kentucky: This afternoon the NTSB released the highly-anticipated preliminary report regarding the fatal crash of UPS Flight 2976 that occurred one month ago. The photos provided in the accident report shed light on what happened; the port-side engine completely ripped away from the wing due to a failure of the pylons holding it to the aircraft. In short, the engine flew itself off the wing due to fatigue and degradation of the mechanisms attaching the engine to the wing.

Analyst Comment: Now, we know why the FAA grounded all MD-11 and DC-10 aircraft in the United States immediately after the crash. In just six images, the NTSB told the whole story, strongly indicating that the crash of Flight 2976 bears striking resemblance to the deadliest aviation accident in US history...the crash of American Airlines Flight 191 which crashed in a nearly identical manner while departing Chicago back in 1979. That aircraft was a DC-10, and 273 people were killed during that incident.

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Analyst Comments: Counter illegal immigration operations continue around the country, as resistance to deportations continues to escalate. In North Carolina, the city of Charlotte has experienced a halt of nearly all construction projects due to illegal workers not showing up to job sites. Media groups and politicians alike also continue to help illegals evade detection. Nearly identical efforts have been noted in most major US cities, as NGOs continue to openly fund efforts to combat ICE.

Community watch organizations have also immediately popped in Charlotte, mostly from the Siembra organization. Yesterday an elderly woman was observed posted at the door of Sav/Way Foods Latin Supermarket at 4459 Central Ave, serving as a lookout for ICE personnel. Similar efforts have been observed up and down Central Avenue, which indicates the scale of the problem and the lengths that people will go to, in order to protect extremely violent criminals from detention. This is exactly what the Cartels do in Mexico, though they usually hire children to serve as 'halcones' or 'falcons', which is a common codeword for lookout. In Charlotte however, NGOs with very large budgets don't need to conceal their behavior or use codewords; they are allowed to aid and abet violent criminals evading detection. Which is convenient for identifying exactly which businesses are frequented by criminals.

Otherwise, the resistance in Charlotte so far has been significant, mostly concentrated on Central Avenue. Some residents have claimed to have identified one of the hotels where ICE agents are billeted during the deployment, and have taken to shouting obscenities via megaphone in the parking lot throughout the night (nearly identical to what happened in L) Other road rage incidents are extremely common; every single location where ICE agents go, they are assaulted and threatened by random members of the public. Many vehicle ramming attacks have taken place, and are relatively common now nationwide. Many local businesses have taken to social media to announce their temporary closure while ICE is in town; they can't risk their employees getting deported, so they have closed up shop.

As a reminder, ICE is not really targeting illegals just for being illegal, even though they could. However, due to the amount of screeching online, they are mostly focusing on hardened criminals who also happen to be illegal immigrants. This is certainly a PR effort so that whenever some pundit or politician cries foul during a more kinetic arrest, the feds can point out that the person they were arresting has a rap sheet a mile long. This is important to consider in the context of the immigration operations shifting from city-to-city around the US. Charlotte and Raleigh are being worked right now, and pretty much everyone that has been arrested so far is a serious criminal with a long history of violence, just like all of the other cities raided so far.

Analyst: S2A1
Research: https://publish.obsidian.md/s2underground
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