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Siri Chilukuri in Chicago

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Residents and protesters shout at federal agents in the Little Village neighborhood in Chicago on 23 October. Photograph: Joshua Lott/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Anaís Robles didn’t expect to get teargassed. The co-owner of Colibrí Cafe, the coffee shop that opened this year in Chicago’s East Side neighborhood, saw commotion outside in mid-October and ran to see what happened.

Robles saw federal agents donning masks and decided to step back, she was half a block away when the teargas canisters hit. “People were just in the streets, so to clear out the area, they teargas all of us, and like, multiple teargas [canisters],” she said.

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