Overview
- The man’s running club says he is a U.S. citizen who suffered six broken ribs and internal bleeding during the detainment.
- Club-posted video shows agents pulling him from his vehicle, pinning him to the pavement, and kneeling on his back while cuffing him as bystanders shouted for them to stop.
- Residents reported the operation cut into a children’s Halloween parade in Old Irving Park, and ABC News footage showed agents deploying what appeared to be tear gas and cuffing several people, including U.S. citizens.
- Tricia McLaughlin of DHS said agents issued warnings, faced a hostile crowd, and then used crowd-control measures, with two U.S. citizens arrested on allegations of assaulting or impeding a federal officer.
- Authorities said the operation sought to apprehend a Mexican national in the country illegally who had previously been arrested for assault.