>U.S. Border Patrol personnel shot an armed woman in Chicago on Saturday, the Department of Homeland Security said, as scores of protesters faced off against federal immigration agents on the city’s southwest side.
>No law enforcement officers were seriously injured in the incident in which a group that included the woman rammed cars into vehicles used by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said in a statement. The woman, a U.S. citizen who was not identified, drove herself to the hospital, according to the statement.
>No additional information was immediately available about the woman’s condition. ICE agents fired pepper spray and loaded rubber bullets as part of heated exchanges with protesters on Saturday.
>U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said in a post on X that she was sending additional “special operations” to control the scene in Chicago’s Brighton Park neighborhood.
>“It is absolutely outrageous and unAmerican to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will,” Pritzker said in a statement.
>On multiple occasions, demonstrators sitting on the ground attempting to block ICE vehicles from carrying detainees into the facility have been repelled by heavily armed ICE agents using physical force, chemical munitions and rubber bullets, evoking combat scenes.
>Protesters have decried what they call similar heavy-handed policing in other Democratic-run cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Portland, Oregon.
Seems like a sensationalist headline? She was part of a group ramming vehicles into law enforcement’s vehicles and they shot her with rubber bullets, after which she drove herself to the hospital? That’s the story, right?
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>U.S. Border Patrol personnel shot an armed woman in Chicago on Saturday, the Department of Homeland Security said, as scores of protesters faced off against federal immigration agents on the city’s southwest side.
>No law enforcement officers were seriously injured in the incident in which a group that included the woman rammed cars into vehicles used by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said in a statement. The woman, a U.S. citizen who was not identified, drove herself to the hospital, according to the statement.
>No additional information was immediately available about the woman’s condition. ICE agents fired pepper spray and loaded rubber bullets as part of heated exchanges with protesters on Saturday.
>U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said in a post on X that she was sending additional “special operations” to control the scene in Chicago’s Brighton Park neighborhood.
>Illinois Governor JB [Pritzker](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/illinois-governor-says-trump-administration-has-requested-troop-deployment-2025-09-29/), a Democrat, said on Saturday that he was given an ultimatum by Republican President [Donald Trump](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/donald-trump/) to deploy the state’s National Guard.
>“It is absolutely outrageous and unAmerican to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will,” Pritzker said in a statement.
>People in the Chicago area have staged repeated protests condemning the stepped-up federal presence. On Friday, [police scuffled](https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/scuffles-arrests-outside-chicago-ice-facility-that-has-been-protest-focus-2025-10-03/) with hundreds of protesters outside an ICE facility in the Chicago suburb of Broadview.
>On multiple occasions, demonstrators sitting on the ground attempting to block ICE vehicles from carrying detainees into the facility have been repelled by heavily armed ICE agents using physical force, chemical munitions and rubber bullets, evoking combat scenes.
>Protesters have decried what they call similar heavy-handed policing in other Democratic-run cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Portland, Oregon.
Other news:
[The Weird Portland Protest That Trump Wants to Crush – The Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/archive/2025/10/portland-ice-protest-national-guard-trump/684439/)
[Centrist Republicans warn against Trump’s partisan shutdown strategy | Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/centrist-republicans-warn-against-trumps-partisan-shutdown-strategy-2025-10-04/)
[Homeland Security requests National Guard to be sent to Chicago despite protests from local leaders – ABC News](https://abcnews.go.com/US/homeland-security-requests-national-guard-chicago-despite-protests/story?id=126218735)
!ping USA-Chi
Seems like a sensationalist headline? She was part of a group ramming vehicles into law enforcement’s vehicles and they shot her with rubber bullets, after which she drove herself to the hospital? That’s the story, right?
I think this is a counter productive headline.
Yes, all ICE agents
https://preview.redd.it/qr8o4yn626tf1.png?width=1776&format=png&auto=webp&s=c8b865dc52d75cdb4ec6dd60d24dcc8d42a0625b
Weird, their vests say “POLICE” but they look like military.