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Anna Betts

Federal agents taunted Chicago woman to ‘do something’ before shooting her, attorney claims

armed officers stand outside behind a line of caution tape
A border protection officer stands behind tape during demonstrators' standoff with federal officers in Chicago, Illinois on 4 October. Photograph: Jim Vondruska/Reuters

The attorney for a woman who was shot by federal agents in Chicago over the weekend after she allegedly rammed a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) vehicle has claimed that body-camera footage captures one of the officers saying: “Do something, bitch,” before opening fire, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

The shooting occurred on Saturday morning in Chicago’s Brighton Park neighborhood, as immigration agents, at the behest of the second Trump administration, have been scouring Illinois’s largest city for people to deport.

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