{"id":4932,"date":"2025-10-03T21:33:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T21:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=4932"},"modified":"2025-10-03T21:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T21:33:18","slug":"federal-agents-handcuff-chicago-alderperson-at-hospital-er","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=4932","title":{"rendered":"Federal Agents Handcuff Chicago Alderperson At Hospital ER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>CHICAGO \u2014 Federal agents handcuffed Humboldt Park-area Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th) as she confronted them Friday at Humboldt Park Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Agents handcuffed Fuentes, forced her out of the hospital and threatened her with arrest, Fuentes told a Block Club reporter. The agents appeared to be with ICE, she said.<\/p>\n<aside>\n        <\/aside>\n<p>\u201cIt shows just how much this is escalating,\u201d said Fuentes, who is Puerto Rican and represents a Chicago neighborhood that is a Puerto Rican enclave. \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<p>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 had detained \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<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1    \">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>Fuentes again asks the agents if they have a warrant, and an agent grabs Fuentes, spins her around and handcuffs her hands.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignright is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"perfmatters-lazy-youtube\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5_T8ztmjU1k\" data-id=\"5_T8ztmjU1k\" data-query=\"feature=oembed\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5_T8ztmjU1k?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis is an alderperson who is being under arrest,\u201d a person off-screen says in the video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a hospital. Do you have a signed judicial warrant for him?\u201d Fuentes says to the agents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe told you to leave,\u201d says the agent who handcuffed Fuentes. \u201cNow you are under arrest for impeding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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<p>\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,\u201d Mayor Brandon Johnson said in a statement upon hearing of the incident. \u201cAny attempt to block this work is a direct attack on democratic accountability and an assault on the rights of the people of Chicago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The agents were at the hospital because a person they\u2019d been chasing fell and was injured, Fuentes said. They brought the person to the hospital; when Fuentes heard about what happened, she went there.<\/p>\n<p>Agents were not allowing the man they\u2019d arrested to speak with attorneys, Fuentes said.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian Rodriguez, a Humboldt Park activist and member of the Northwest Side response team, also showed up during the incident and helped escort undocumented people in the ER back to their cars or home out of fear, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople were\u00a0leaving before they got service,\u201d Rodriguez said.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-2    \">\n        <\/aside>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/jessie-presser-HP-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-931715\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th) speaks during an emergency press conference outside Humboldt Park Health on Oct. 3, 2025 denouncing ICE after she was briefly handcuffed by agents inside the hospital for asking if they had a warrant for the man they were detaining.  <span class=\"image-credit\"><span class=\"credit-label-wrapper\">Credit:<\/span> Ariel Parrella-Aureli\/Block Club Chicago<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At a news conference afterward, officials and Northwest Side organizers urged people to not be fearful of increased ICE activity and to work together to stand up to federal agents. THEY thanked the many neighbors and response team members who showed up at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Ald. Anthony Quezada (35th), who was also at the hospital, urged every Chicagoan to call their alderpeople to\u00a0and pressure them to stand up to ICE if they are not already doing so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery single one of you needs to call your alderman today, tomorrow and every single day, and ask them, \u2018What are you doing to stand up to ICE? What are you doing to hold this fascist and authoritarian government accountable?\u2019\u201d Quezada said.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"teargas\">Feds Tear Gassed Street Of People \u2014\u00a0Including 2-Year-Old<\/h2>\n<p>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, and U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was involved in a raid at a local Walmart.<\/p>\n<p>In another incident caught on video Friday, federal agents inside a car threw tear gas and what appeared to be smoke grenades into a Logan Square street while people were outside nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Bill and Jessica Higgins were walking home with their 2-year-old from school when they heard drivers honking their horns, people blowing whistles and a helicopter circling above. The couple lives a block away from Rico Fresh, a grocery store on the corner of Armitage and Central Park Avenue, which was the scene of what appeared to be an attempted ICE raid.<\/p>\n<p>Smoke suddenly filled the air, Jessica Higgins said. She got caught in the smoke while her husband rushed ahead with their child in a stroller.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt hit me even before I realized it,\u201d Jessica Higgins said. \u201cI thought I was outside the cloud of it, but after a few seconds \u2026 it\u2019s just like a burning in your eyes and in your lungs. And I just started coughing, and my eyes were tearing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A video Jessica Higgins took before she started coughing shows smoke filling the air and a man yelling out for water for his burning eyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems reasonable to expect that in an American city, you could go a block away from your own house and not worry about getting tear gassed when you\u2019re just getting home from preschool,\u201d Bill Higgins said.<\/p>\n<p>Other videos from the scene taken by neighbors and passersby show a federal agent in a white SUV throwing something out of his window. Another angle shows a federal agent using his baton to strike something several times outside the frame of the video.<\/p>\n<p>Another resident, who did not want to share her name for safety reasons, said she was walking out of Rico Fresh when she saw the clouds of smoke. She said her lungs and eyes burned, making it impossible for her to see. She walked to a nearby alley, where a woman loading her groceries into a car gave her a water bottle to wash out her eyes.<\/p>\n<p>The resident, an immigrant from Kazakhstan, said the incident made her fear for the future of the United States, which she fled to for a better life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think a lot of people don\u2019t understand how good they have it in this country, maybe because they didn\u2019t experience it in other countries. I\u2019m afraid that this country will become authoritarian because of everything that is happening,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is how it starts, with the baby steps, with normalizing this behavior. \u2026 I hope people don\u2019t tolerate this kind of behavior. If this is going to become normal, there will be no hope in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the Broadview ICE facility, border patrol Chief Greg Bovino <a href=\"https:\/\/blockclubchicago.org\/2025\/10\/03\/federal-agents-again-attack-protesters-outside-broadview-ice-facility\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">made an appearance with a group of agents who attacked protesters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-know-your-rights\">Know Your Rights<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"749\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cars-1-1024x749.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-931714\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">One large truck with ICE agents inside was seen chased away by several neighbors and activists near Humboldt Park Health.  <span class=\"image-credit\"><span class=\"credit-label-wrapper\">Credit:<\/span> Ariel Parrella-Aureli\/Block Club Chicago<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-primary-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-primary-background-color has-background is-style-wide\" \/>\n<p><strong>Listen to the Block Club Chicago podcast:<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<pre><code>    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1320543462033816');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView', {\"page_title\":\"Federal Agents Handcuff Chicago Alderperson At Hospital ER\",\"user_role\":\"guest\",\"event_url\":\"https:\/\/blockclubchicago.org\/2025\/10\/03\/federal-agents-handcuff-chicago-alderperson-who-tried-to-help-immigrant\",\"post_type\":\"post\",\"post_id\":931608});\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blockclubchicago.org\/2025\/10\/03\/federal-agents-handcuff-chicago-alderperson-who-tried-to-help-immigrant\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO \u2014 Federal agents handcuffed Humboldt Park-area Ald. 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