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.
“The officers exited their trapped vehicle, when a suspect tried to run them over, forcing the officers to fire defensively,” according to DHS, which called the incident “an evolving situation” and noted FBI agents were currently on the scene.
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.
“The armed woman was named in a CBP intelligence bulletin last week for doxing agents and posting online ‘Hey to all my gang let’s f–k those mother f–kers up, don’t let them take anyone,’” McLaughlin wrote on X.
More federal agents were set to be deployed because of the incident, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote on X.
“Today in Chicago, members of our brave law enforcement were attacked—rammed and boxed in by ten vehicles, including an attacker with a semi-automatic weapon.I am deploying more special operations to control the scene. Reinforcements are on their way,” she wrote.
“If you see a law enforcement officer today, thank them,” Noem added.
The armed woman, who was not immediately identified, drove herself to the hospital after the shooting “to get care for her wounds,” McLaughlin added.
A spokesperson for the Chicago Fire Department told the Chicago Sun-Times the woman was later found and taken to a local hospital in stable condition.
The fire department could not immediately be reached for comment.
The time and location of the shooting weren’t immediately clear.
“Thankfully, no law enforcement officers were seriously injured in the attack,” wrote McLaughlin, who then ripped the lefty Illinois governor for failing to help with the fallout of the gunfire.
“Unfortunately, [Gov.] JB Pritzker’s Chicago Police Department is leaving the shooting scene and refuses to assist us in securing the area. There is a crowd growing and we are deploying special operations to control [it],” McLaughlin said.
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.
On Wednesday, “criminal illegal aliens weaponized their vehicles in deliberate attempts to ram and injure officers carrying out their sworn duty to uphold our nation’s immigration laws” during incidents in Bensenville, Ill. and another in Norridge, Ill. the department said, noting no members of law enforcement died from the attacks.
“This is exactly what happens when Governor Pritzker, [Chicago] Mayor [Brandon] Johnson, and other sanctuary politicians demonize ICE and encourage illegal aliens to resist law enforcement,” McLaughlin said in response to those incidents.
On Saturday, the spokeswoman reiterated that such violence will be met with “consequences.”
“Comparing ICE day-in and day-out to the Nazi Gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences,” she said.
“The men and women of ICE and CBP are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters. They get up every morning to try and make our communities safer. Like everyone else, they just want to go home to their families at night. The violence and dehumanization of these men and women who are simply enforcing the law must stop. We are praying for our law enforcement and their families,” McLaughlin said.
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