Illinois Gov. Pritzker: DHS Claim Chicago Police Were Ordered To Stand Down During ICE Ambush Is “Propaganda”
Governor J.B. Pritzker says he doesn’t know what happened in Chicago during an incident Saturday where ICE agents allege their vehicles were “boxed in” by up to ten cars and then “rammed.” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin says Chicago police were ordered to stand down and did nothing to secure the scene, even after a woman was shot (she allegedly drove herself to the hospital after ramming an ICE vehicle) in this scene:
🚨BREAKING: Here’s video of the armed woman shot by DHS in the black SUV ramming a white DHS vehicle who had their emergency lights on.
Another DHS black SUV then attempts to ram Marimar's SUV from behind.
Do you think they were justified to open fire?
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“It’s really hard to know exactly what the facts are. And they won’t let us access the facts. They are just putting out their propaganda, and then we have got to later determine what actually happened,” Pritzker told CNN on Sunday morning.
JAKE TAPPER, CNN: DHS says that CBP officers shot and wounded a woman in Chicago yesterday after, they say, she allegedly rammed a law enforcement vehicle and agents were boxed in by multiple cars. The spokesperson for DHS, Tricia McLaughlin, accused Chicago police of leaving the scene and refusing to assist agents in securing the area. What do you know about this incident? Were federal agents boxed in and assaulted? GOV. J.B. PRITZKER: Well, we don’t have a lot of facts. What happens in these sorts of incidents is, typically, ICE puts out a press release before anybody else can speak with the press, and then it gets reported on social media and elsewhere. Remember, these are the same folks who killed a person, an unarmed person, just a couple of weeks ago in Franklin Park. At first, they said that the officer had been threatened with his life. The reality of it and the truth of it has now come out, and that wasn’t the case. They killed somebody. So, here, it’s really hard to know exactly what the facts are. And they won’t let us access the facts. They are just putting out their propaganda, and then we have got to later determine what actually happened.
