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involves a high-speed chase border Patrol Agents arrested a man who was chased down a residential street Tuesday afternoon chicago southbound, officials said, and footage from the scene showed protesters gathering before agents fired tear gas to disperse them.
When federal agents conducted an immigration enforcement operation, a driver suspected of being in the country illegally rammed a Border Patrol vehicle before fleeing, Department of Homeland Security Officials said. According to DHS, agents pursued the vehicle until the driver pulled over and attempted to flee.
As soon as agents arrested the man, a crowd began to form and “crowd control methods were used,” DHS officials said. Chicago Police Department It was confirmed that federal agents fired tear gas into the street. Federal agents have deployed tear gas on other residential streets in recent weeks.
ABC 7 footage shows dozens of protesters waving flags as several federal agents and local police officers block them from the street. Border Patrol agents can be seen firing tear gas into the crowd, causing a white mist to appear on the street as protesters cough and flee the area.
CPD officers arrived around 11 p.m. following a 911 call about a car accident involving federal officers, the agency said. According to CPD, some members of the crowd began throwing objects at federal agents.
Thirteen Chicago police officers were hit with tear gas, the agency said.
Go to Illinois. JB Pritzker Calling federal agents’ treatment of protesters Tuesday “disgusting,” he said they have been attacked with tear gas, pepper pellets and rubber bullets “while they were holding signs and expressing themselves.”
“I’ve never seen it like this in the United States,” he said.
Over the weekend, federal agents also deployed tear gas in the North Chicago neighborhood of Albany Park, and earlier this month, agents fired tear gas canisters from a vehicle near a grocery store on the city’s West Side.
Andrew Denton told The Associated Press that he was attacked with tear gas as he walked to a grocery store to pick up lunch. There were about 20 people in the area, including elderly people and families with children, he said, adding that students from an adjacent primary school were also out during the holiday.
“It’s very sad that this is the reality, that the current administration is treating Chicago’s communities this way,” he said at the time.
Protests over the federal immigration crackdown have broken out across Chicago, mostly outside a federal immigration facility in the western Chicago suburb of Broadview, but also spreading into neighborhood streets.
Some of these demonstrations have involved the pursuit of vehicles by federal agents.
Most recently, federal prosecutors obtained grand jury indictments last week against a man and woman accused of using their vehicles to attack a Border Patrol agent’s vehicle and then ram him. The agent then came out of his car and fired five bullets at the woman, injuring her. Both were released on Monday pending hearing.
Meanwhile, immigration activists rallied in Springfield on Tuesday to call for an expansion of “sanctuary city” protections under the state’s Trust Act, which prevents state and local law enforcement from cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.