The brutality of Chicago’s ice operations came under scrutiny Wednesday after multiple armed agents arrested an armed worker in front of children. At the same time, witnesses described the use of excessive force by federal officers in a municipal court hearing.
ICE agents forcibly detained a worker at the Rayito de Sar Daycare Center in the city north of the city after closing the facility Wednesday morning. Videos Shots by people showed ice agents pulling the girl out of daycare – at one point showing her face against a parked car as they tried to arrest her.
Talking to CBS Chicago, a parent, Matt Champion, who witnessed the arrest said that he arrived at the daycare at about 6.55M to drop off his child. Champion said he saw a black car followed by an SUV pull into the DayCare parking lot about 10 minutes later.
He said he saw the daycare worker’s approach from a black car, which was driven into the facility before agents chased him on ice, tackled him outside the parking lot where he was arrested and placed inside the SUV.
According to additional bystander videos reviewed by Chicago Tribune, The worker can be heard saying “I have papers” in Spain before he is pushed against the car.
Speaking to the outlet, teacher Marisel Mari said: “We are concerned about the safety of the children.” According to DayCare staff, no warrant was presented before an agent entered the facility, the Chicago Tribune reports.
Parent Tara Goodarzi, who was on her way to her son, told the outlet that everyone was “crying, scared, following what she described as” abduction “.
“To do this in a place where the children, with complete disregard for what the children see, there are no inferior people who do not kneel,” he added.
The Guardian has reached out to Rayito Del Sol for comment.
City Alderman Matt Martin who represents the 47th ward where the daycare is located told CBS Chicago that the videos of the arrest are “some of the best video footage I’ve ever seen”.
City and state lawmakers quickly staged a press conference To judge the incident, with the democratic representative of Mike Quigley saying: “This woman is a trusted, loved member of a work permit who has dedicated her life to the care of children.”
“No child is afraid of their school,” he continued. “No parent should have to explain to their child why their teacher was taken away by armed officers, and no teacher should fear that showing care will lead to their arrest.”
A spokeswoman for Homeland’s owner, Tricia McLaughlin, issued a statement denying that the daycar itself was targeted. “Ice law enforcement did not end a daycare. Officers tried to conduct a targeted traffic stop on this female foreigner from Colombia,” he As.
“Officers attempted to pull over this vehicle, which was registered to a female illegal alien, with sirens and emergency lights, but the male driver refused to pull the vehicle over. Law enforcement pursued the vehicle before the assailant sped into a shopping plaza where he and the female passenger fled the vehicle. They ran into a daycare and attempted to barricade themselves inside the daycare – recklessly endangering the children inside,” she continued.
The incident at the Daycare Center and the Swift Backlash that followed the testimony on Wednesday, where witnesses described the allegations of excessive powers of ice agents during immigrations throughout the city.
Hearing about a DEMANDS Filed by several media organizations and protesters accusing the agency of a “pattern of extreme brutality” and a “common effort to silence the press and civilians”.
Testifying in court, the organizer of OCCICICICIZER Leslie Cortez says that he recorded and explained the rights of the Day workers to one of them pointing his gun.
“I saw inside the barrel … my heart was racing. I was nervous that they were going to shoot,” he said Asaccording to the associated press.
Meanwhile, Emily Steelhammer, executive director of the Chicago newspaper Guild, testified that union members were targeted with rubber bullets and rubber bullets like tear gas.
Plaintiffs’ attorney Craig Futterman cited several recent instances in which ice agents used the services of Chicago-area residents, AMONG in a children’s Halloween parade. At one point, the court watched the video video, reported the Associated Press, which showed Gregory Bevino “Ice Patrol’s operation” in the city, throwing a canister of ice.
Last month, a federal judge ordered BEVino to appear in federal court every week to report on ice operations.
Defending the agents of Ice, Justice Department lawyer Sarmad Khojasteh is said to have issued the protestors against the agents.
“Such behavior must be rejected,” he said, according to the accompanying press.