In Illinois, protesters confronted masked federal agents Wednesday as they carried out multiple arrests in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood and the bordering suburb of Cicero. The agents were joined by Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino, whose forces were recently reprimanded by a federal judge for violating a prior court order restricting the use of tear gas and other “less lethal” weapons on peaceful demonstrators, journalists and clergy. Federal agents fired pepper spray at protesters who witnessed a car crash involving federal agents.
Baltazar Enriquez: “They wanted to show that they are thugs and they could do whatever they want. And they crashed into an individual, arrested him with no probable cause, no warrant. And instead of the police department assisting the guy that got crashed, seeing if he needed medical attention, they arrested him.”