Federal immigration agents were seen deploying teargas during operations in Lakeview, a wealthy Chicago neighborhood.
A video circulating on social media on Friday afternoon showed an agent rolling a teargas canister out of a vehicle window as it backed away from onlookers.
Operation Midway Blitz targeted a white community where immigrants worked, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Agents were said to have detained a man near a school where elites send their children and arrested another man at the Laugh Factory comedy club.
“ICE’s un-American and undemocratic tactics of fear and intimidation in our neighborhoods are a direct attack on everything Chicago stands for — inclusion, compassion and love,” Ald. Bennett Lawson (D) told the Tribune. “We have a proud history of welcoming people of all backgrounds in our community and our commitment to those principles are stronger now than ever.”
Video from witness here from the moment CBP gassed neighbors who had gathered outside after the kidnapping.
Agent rolls a canister at the crowd out of the window of their car as they reverse away from people with whistles and bikes.
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