A congressional candidate in Illinois’s 9th District has been indicted on federal charges by the Department of Justice. Democrat Kat Abughazaleh faces one count of conspiracy and one charge alleging that she “forcibly impeded, intimidated, and interfered” with an ICE officer. Abughazaleh has been frequently protesting outside the ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois. Soon after her indictment, she posted this video on social media.

Kat Abughazaleh: “As I and others have exercised our First Amendment rights, ICE has hit, dragged, thrown, shot with pepper balls and tear-gassed hundreds of protesters simply because we had the gall to say that masked men coming into our communities, abducting our neighbors and terrorizing us cannot be our new normal. And because Chicago doesn’t back down from bullies in masks who tear-gas our neighborhoods, this administration has resorted to weaponizing the federal justice system to scare us into silence. But we’re not going to be silent.”

Click here to see our interview with Kat Abughazaleh.