Surprise! ICE lied

The Franklin Park (Chicago suburb) incident didn't happen the way they said.

Less than one week into President Donald Trump’s surge of deportation arrests in Chicago, an immigration agent shot and killed a man during a traffic stop on a near suburban street Friday morning.

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The statement, which was immediately quoted by media outlets, places much of the blame on Villegas-Gonzalez for his own death. The agency also claimed Villegas-Gonzalez drove his car at ICE agents conducting the vehicle stop, resulting in serious injuries.

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“One of the ICE officers was hit by the car and dragged a significant distance. Fearing for his own life, the officer fired his weapon.“

Bystander videos and eyewitness accounts, however, tell a different story.

Security footage near the scene in Franklin Park, as reported by CBS, shows two plainclothes agents approaching a silver sedan that had been blocked off by an unmarked SUV.

The sedan eventually reverses from the two agents, and the officer on the passenger side points his firearm at the vehicle.

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As Villegas-Gonzalez drives away from the agents—not toward them, as DHS claimed—the agent on the passenger side aims his weapon at the back of Villegas-Gonzalez’s car.

Two gunshots can be heard in a separate security video. The second agent is not visible during the shooting, and it remains unclear which agent fired their weapon.

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Other footage that circulated on social media following the shooting, recorded by on-scene witnesses, shows two men in body armor pulling Villegas-Gonzalez out of his vehicle after it crashed into the undercarriage of a semitruck.

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The pair, who appear to be operating alone, are then seen laying his bloodied body on the ground and providing first aid.

One can be heard yelling for bystanders to call 9-1-1. Neither appears seriously injured.

DHS reports the allegedly injured officer is in stable condition.

  Unraveled Press

Perhaps we could see pictures of his "injuries"?

Verified ICE sightings around the greater Chicago area in the last week already show a pattern of traffic stops that have led to immigration enforcement arrests. A mix of plainclothes agents and Special Response Team (SRT) members in fully militarized gear have been spotted pulling over drivers.

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Police departments in urban areas will often use an unmarked SUV to quickly cut off a target vehicle in traffic, as plainclothes officers jump out and bark orders at the vehicle’s occupants. The tactic is predominantly used to stop Black and Latine drivers, and the stops cause confusion and panic for drivers boxed in their cars, frequently leading to violent police encounters.

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Hours after an ICE agent fatally shot Villegas-Gonzalez in Franklin Park, agents with ICE’s Chicago field office Special Response Team deployed projectile chemical munitions on [protesters at a nearby ICE processing facility where weekly protests are conducted]. These included chemical gas, as well as pepper balls fired at a non-violent protester who was using a mobility aid.

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According to a Sept. 2 statement from Broadview mayor Katrina Thompson, ICE will continue operating out of the Broadview facility as part of a “large scale enforcement campaign”—part of the Trump administration’s so-called “Operation Midway Blitz”—until at least mid-October.

And nothing good will come of it.

Video is embedded in the article.