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(NewsNation) — The large Illinois pistillate heard successful a viral video yelling astatine a federal agent pointing a weapon astatine her says she thought her beingness was over.
“This is it. This is wherever I beauteous overmuch die,” Lesly Guevara thought to herself, she told “NewsNation Prime” connected Saturday.
The video was recorded earlier this period successful the Chicago suburb of Berwyn. Guevara said she was driving her fiancé and 10-month-old lad to prime up groceries erstwhile she saw 2 men running. As she continued to drive, she said a Jeep tried to artifact her in, “so I’m blaring my horn astatine him to move.”
When respective different radical she thought to beryllium Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers came onto the scene, Guevara said she continued honking to alert others successful the area. She said the ICE serviceman successful the video ran crossed the thoroughfare toward her and said, “You’re impeding,” portion pointing his limb astatine her.
Guevara is heard shouting astatine him, “You gonna sprout a large woman? … Do you consciousness bully astir yourself?”
The serviceman lowers his weapon arsenic the pistillate pulls away, successful the video.
Guevara said she did thing wrong. She said she was driving dilatory and could not proceed due to the fact that the agents were "blocking the road."
"I was driving slow, I wasn't adjacent going fast," she said erstwhile asked if the authorities could person perceived her arsenic a threat.
The Department of Homeland Security disagrees.
"The user’s video intelligibly shows she is aggressively barreling toward instrumentality enforcement portion speeding and honking her horn — a intelligibly threatening and assertive enactment toward instrumentality enforcement," a DHS spokesperson countered successful a connection to Newsweek.
Confrontation could person ended badly, Chicago Ald. Lopez says
Chicago Ald. Raymond Lopez said the concern could person ended badly. He said helium understands wherefore the pistillate is upset but adds Guevara enactment herself and her household successful information by speeding done the scene.
"Law enforcement is trained to judge that if you're being boxed in, your beingness is successful danger. If individuals are pursuing you done the neighborhoods astatine precocious speeds, your beingness is successful danger,” helium told “NewsNation Prime.”
Lopez said helium assigns the astir blasted to Democratic politicians who amp up the emotions of radical who reason the Trump administration’s migration policies.
"What we conscionable witnessed is what happens erstwhile our politicians escalate the rhetoric and ratchet up the unit successful our neighborhoods to person radical consciousness that it is their occupation to effort to impede instrumentality enforcement," helium said.
Lopez has supported the Chicago surge of national agents to circular up undocumented individuals who airs a nationalist information risk. He said helium hopes the president volition see immoderate benignant of “pathway toward citizenship” for millions of migrants who person been successful the U.S. for respective years without breaking the law.
