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A Berwyn family was driving with their 1-yr-old child Saturday when they were pepper-sprayed by federal agents, video shows.
…Rafael Veraza said his family was on its way to buy groceries at a Cicero Sam’s Club when they heard whistles & sirens.
Veraza attempted to leave the Sam’s Club parking lot when a federal agent drove alongside the line of cars exiting, spraying chemical irritants through open windows & striking occupants — including Veraza’s 1-yr-old daughter, Ariana.
A Berwyn family was driving with their 1-yr-old child Saturday when they were pepper-sprayed by federal agents, video shows.
…Rafael Veraza said his family was on its way to buy groceries at a Cicero Sam’s Club when they heard whistles & sirens.
Veraza attempted to leave the Sam’s Club parking lot when a federal agent drove alongside the line of cars exiting, spraying chemical irritants through open windows & striking occupants — including Veraza’s 1-yr-old daughter, Ariana.
“I didn’t have to go through this, & my daughter didn’t have to go through this,” Veraza said. “We aren’t protesters, we weren’t going after them, we weren’t attacking them.”
Veraza said his family is considering legal action to help pay for specialist care that he said his daughter now requires.
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The video, filmed by Veraza’s wife in the passenger seat, shows a masked federal agent driving a black pickup truck & firing pepper spray into the open driver’s window of a vehicle. The video later shows his daughter, whose face is censored, crying as someone says, “You’re OK, Mama, you’re OK” & people wash out their eyes.
#Trump #Chicago #law #immigration #judiciary #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #fascism #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #WhiteSupremacy
#DHS would not comment on the specific incident, instead sending a similar statement to one it sent the day before in response to inquiries about its campaign in Little Village Saturday — where shots were *allegedly* fired at agents, acc/to DHS, multiple people were arrested after residents responded to agents detaining people.
#Trump #Chicago #law #immigration #judiciary #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #HumanRights #fascism #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #WhiteSupremacy
#DHS would not answer questions about whether the action violated #CBP’s #UseOfForce policy — which states that agents “should not use [pepper spray], & consider other force options” on small children, visibly pregnant people & “operators of motor vehicles” — or a Thursday preliminary injunction from US District Judge Sara Ellis restricting the use of “riot control weapons” against protesters or observers who pose no immediate threat, & without 2 warnings, among other restrictions.
…The incident came amid a weekend #CBP campaign in Little Village, Cicero & Oak Park, where a #GirlScouts #FoodPantry food drive was halted Saturday after the troop encountered federal agents.
“What I witnessed with my eyes yesterday was #StateSponsoredTerrorism,” said state Sen Celina Villanueva of the activity in Little Village Saturday. “They kept going & coming back, & every single time they left destruction & traumatized people in their wake.”
#Trump #Chicago #law
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/11/08/oak-park-parents-ice-girl-scouts-food-drive
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