Dem mayor, anti-ICE protesters hit with tear gas, pepper balls during clash with federal agents outside Chicago facility

Federal agents deployed tear gas and pepper balls Friday to disperse an unruly mob of anti-ICE protesters — including a Democratic mayor — attempting to blockade an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility outside Chicago.

More than 100 protesters surrounded the ICE Broadview Processing Center as they “assaulted law enforcement, threw tear gas cans, slashed tires of cars, blocked the entrance of the building, and trespassed on private property,” the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement.

Daniel Biss, the Democratic mayor of Evanston, Ill., was among those taking part in the demonstration.

The mayor also described the chaotic scene outside the facility as “terrifying” and attempt by the Trump administration to “intimidate” protesters.

“It was impossible to breathe and really, really scary,” Bliss said in a video accompanying his social media post.

I don’t know. Other fun facts, though...

Dec.18, 2023 article:
Former El Paso Congressman Beto O’Rourke’s mother has died.

O’Rourke and his sister Charlotte announced their mother Melissa’s death on social media on Sunday, Dec. 17. They did not give an age or a cause of death, but she had been reportedly been battling health issues.
—KTSM.com

El Paso Times in 2019 wrote:
Beto O’Rourke had an estimated net worth of $8.95 million in 2015, according to records analyzed by the Center for Responsive Politics. And Roll Call’s Wealth of Congress list estimated his net worth at $3 million in 2016.

An analysis from his financial disclosures during the 2018 Senate campaign indicated he and his wife had assets ranging from $3.5 million to over $16 million. Their liabilities — largely from real estate holdings — total between $1.3 million and $5.7 million.

O’Rourke addresses family history for the first time and admits that he and his children are ‘beneficiaries’ of slaveholding.

“To look into the rest of the family, O’Rourke said, would have taken “time I don’t have”.”
...
“But one of his grandmothers, Mildred Jasper O’Rourke, came from an old, southern family. Her great-grandfather, Andrew Cowan Jasper, lived in Kentucky in the early 19th century. The Federal Slave Census of 1850 lists him as owning two young women, one 22 years old and the other 17. Census enumerators during the period recorded owners’ names, but only the gender and ages of enslaved people.”
The Guardian. July 14, 2019.

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