Father and Toddler say they were pepper sprayed by Federal agents

He said they were not protesting, they gave their horns to warn others or try to interfere.

A long time pastor in this area, Rev. Math Demiteo, arrived at the scene to help and recorded footage of Veraza struggling to open her eyes and her daughter, Arianna, crying while her mother tried to comfort her.

“The family, and I shouldn’t have said this, but guess what? All the US citizens were attacked while they were shopping,” she said. “We need a better way.”

The Department of Homeland Security flatly rejected the family’s account.

“There was no crowd control or pepper spray deployed in the Sam’s Club parking lot,” assistant secretary Tricia Mclauglin said in a statement to the Associated Press on Monday.

A day of discord

Saturday marked a day of unrest in the operation that saw the arrest of more than 3,200 people suspected of violating immigration laws in the Chicago area. Aggressive tactics used by agents from customs and border protection and immigration and customs clearance have repeatedly come under fire with legal challenges.

Agents used chemical agents freely across the city of 2.7 million and its many suburbs. They have also taken care of teacher arrest day care, targeted Rideshare pilots at O’hare International Airport, gassed the paper in preparation for the Halloween Parade and passed behind the scene.

But the hardest hitting place of all was a small town, a neighborhood in one of the big business hubs that was sometimes called the “Mexico of the midwest.” Many restaurants and shops have signs warning Ice agents to stay while neighbors use whistles and car horns to warn passers-by of agents behind the immigration club.

DHS said agents were conducting enforcement operations when they encountered a “hostile mob” and someone who had been deported from the federal border. Protesters allegedly threw paint cans and bricks at agents’ vehicles. Chicago Police were called to respond to a call of shots fired at Federal Agents. No one was injured.

“Make no mistake: Our work will continue despite the violence,” Mclauklolin said.

Local residents, including demiteo, said agents sent chemical agents, including tear gas and pepper balls, near his van without being offended.

Some protesters confronted the Chicago police and considered them to be helping Federal Agents. One police car had its tailweight hit and sustained wind damage.

DHS said eight US citizens were arrested, but the agency did not say whether they had been charged. The agency did not respond to follow-up questions.

Agent tactics under scrutiny

The controversy unfolded as a Federal judge in Chicago issued a broad order to use the powers of Federal Agents, saying that the Chief Border Officer Leads the Cracking of the Two Limbs Starts Cracking the Foundations Falsely with the Repeating of the Bikini.

UDHS filed for the ruling on Sunday.

The order bars agents from using certain weapons to control boats, such as tear gas and pepper balls, unless such weapons are appropriate to “defend” a threat “immediately.” It also bars agents from using physical force, including fishing protesters and journalists on the ground, and requires agents to give two warnings before using weapons to control boats.

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