U.S. Border Patrol agents shot an armed woman in Chicago Saturday after an angry mob tried to attack the law enforcement officers.
The group of agents were conducting their routine patrol near 39th Place and South Kedzie Avenue in the city’s South Side “when they were attacked and rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars,” the Department of Homeland Security said.
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The suspect, who is a U.S. citizen, was armed with a semi-automatic weapon, department spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said.
The gun-toting woman was already known to the federal agency for allegedly publicly identifying agents and encouraging people to attack them, according to McLaughlin.
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A mob had gathered in the area to protest the shooting, and were met with tear gas deployed by the federal agents, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
The latest violence comes after the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement last month launched “Operation Midway Blitz,” an initiative to “target the criminal illegal aliens who flocked to Chicago and Illinois because they knew Governor Pritzker and his sanctuary policies would protect them and allow them to roam free on American streets,” the department announced in an X post.
Since then, angry crowds of protestors have reportedly mobbed the ICE processing center in the same area where the shooting occurred.
More than a dozen demonstrators were seen being arrested in the streets near the facility on Friday, Fox News reported.
The protesters have increasingly using vehicles to attack ICE agents in the Chicago area, according to DHS, which said agents were targeted in two such attacks one day earlier this week.
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