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<\/p>\nCHICAGO \u2014 Federal agents handcuffed Humboldt Park-area Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th) as she confronted them Friday at Humboldt Park Hospital.<\/p>\n
Agents handcuffed Fuentes, forced her out of the hospital and threatened her with arrest, Fuentes told a Block Club reporter.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt shows just how much this is escalating,\u201d Fuentes told Block Club. \u201cThey don\u2019t care about people\u2019s constitutional rights. They can handcuff an elected official for doing absolutely nothing\u00a0\u2014\u00a0just imagine what they\u2019re doing to the residents in the city of Chicago, whether they are documented or not. These federal agents don\u2019t give a damn.\u201d<\/p>\n
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A video of the Friday afternoon incident shows Fuentes at the hospital, asking federal agents if they had a signed warrant and telling the agents a man \u2014 who they were arresting \u2014 has Constitutional rights. Fuentes is not seen touching the agents, one of whom tells her he will arrest her if she does not leave.<\/p>\n
Fuentes again asks the agents if they have a warrant, and an agent grabs Fuentes, spins her around and handcuffs her hands.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an alderperson who is being under arrest,\u201d a person off-screen says in the video.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a hospital. Do you have a signed judicial warrant for him?\u201d Fuentes says to the agents.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe told you to leave,\u201d says the agent who handcuffed Fuentes. \u201cNow you are under arrest for impeding.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fuentes was led outside the hospital and released. She was told that if she went back inside, she would be arrested, witnesses said.<\/p>\n
\u201cChicago\u2019s elected officials have a First Amendment right to document ICE\u2019s actions and to inform their constituents of their rights without federal interference. Any attempt to block this work is a direct attack on democratic accountability and an assault on the rights of the people of Chicago,\u201d Mayor Brandon Johnson said in a statement upon hearing of the incident. <\/p>\n
The incident comes amid a flurry of ICE activity throughout Chicago on Friday. Numerous people have reported seeing agents patrolling and detaining people in the neighborhoods.<\/p>\n
In another incident caught on video from Friday, federal agents inside a car threw smoke grenades into a random street while people were outside nearby.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n
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