The progressive member of the City Council of Chicago was detained on Friday after he insisted on federal agents about the rights to the proper legal procedure carried out in the hospital in its ward.
Chicago Olderpson Jesse Fuentes said She went to the Humboldt-Park hospital, having heard that about a 37-year-old man, who was persecuted by immigration and customs agents during the operation in the neighborhood, fell, broke his leg and was taken to the hospital with agents.
According to Fuentes, agents whom she identified as ice did not allow the man to speak with lawyers. A video From the incident, which begins against the background and will between the elected official and two agents, was published on the Fuentes page on Facebook.
Personnel begins with the fact that Fuentes emphasizes that a detained person has constitutional rights to which one agent replied: “No. No”. Olderpeson asked if the agents had a signed judicial order for him.
“You need to leave,” the agent answered, threatening to arrest her. Another agent, a mask man, said Fuentes: “You will be arrested.”
Before he was able to finish, his partner pulled Fuentes's hand strongly with both hands, turned it and put it on handcuffs. It is heard that a woman behind the camera says: “This is an Olderson who [placed] Under arrest! “
When the handcuffs endowed him, Fuentes repeatedly asked about the warrant and seemed to tell men that handcuffs were harmful to her. She emphasized that she did not touch the agents, and the man who put on her handcuffs said that she was “under arrest for an obstacle.”
“This person has constitutional rights,” Fuentes repeated, before the masked agent led her to the exit door. “I didn't touch you. This is public space. I'm not invading. I ask you: do you have a signed judicial order? “
The masked agent eventually replied that he did not need a warrant.
At the press conference, Fuentes said that she was ultimately taken out into the street, where the agents of the border patrol were about to put her in the car. Nevertheless, she was freed from her handcuffs, she said, asking: “What law I violated, not to use my constitutional right to ask if they have a signed judicial order?”
In accordance with Block Club ChicagoThe local news site, Fuentes, said that she would be arrested if she returned to the building.
Fuentes told the press that this is “not the first incident” in its kind, but “ordinary practice”, because “ice introduces people into the hospital chambers into emergency care, because people are harmful when the ice tries to detain people in the city of Chicago.”
“What the ice does is the implementation of violence,” she said, “physical violence against the people of Chicago.”
