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CHICAGO (NewsNation) — Kat Abughazaleh, a campaigner moving for Congress successful Illinois, is among six radical facing national charges successful transportation with protesting astatine the Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center successful suburban Broadview, the Democrat wrote successful a societal media station connected Wednesday.
Abughazaleh wrote that those being charged are being targeted for “exercising our First Amendment rights” adjacent the ICE facility, which has been the epicenter for clashes betwixt protesters and national officers and agents.
Video of an brushwood showing Abughazaleh being thrown to the ground by a national cause went viral aft the incident took spot astatine the Broadview installation successful September.
Abughazaleh wrote successful an Instagram post that she and others were targeted by national officers and agents “simply due to the fact that we had the gall to accidental masked men abducting our neighbors and terrorizing our assemblage cannot beryllium the caller normal.”
Abughazaleh did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.
NewsNation affiliate WGN reported Abughazaleh was charged on with Michael Rabbitt, Andre Martin, Catherine Sharp, Brian Straw and Joselyn Walsh. All of those facing the national charges are accused of surrounding an ICE officer’s conveyance and damaging the vehicle.
Federal prosecutors assertion “PIG” was etched into the conveyance by the protesters. The Department of Justice did not instantly respond to NewsNation's petition for remark connected the charges.
“This is simply a governmental prosecution and a gross effort to soundlessness dissent,” Abughazaleh said successful a video posted to her X account. “This lawsuit is simply a large propulsion by the Trump medication to criminalize protestation and punish anyone who speaks retired against them. That’s wherefore I’m going to combat these unjust charges.”
The national indictment was filed Oct. 23 and was precocious unsealed, WGN reported.
This is simply a processing story. NewsNation volition update the communicative arsenic much accusation becomes available.
