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In a statement, Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said that the \u201ctwo U.S. citizens were arrested for assaulting and impeding a federal officer,\u201d and accused Villegas of having a previous assault charge without providing proof of the 35-year-old man\u2019s criminal background.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur officers are facing a 1000% increase in assaults against them as they put their lives on the line to arrest murderers, rapists, abusers, and gang members,\u201d the statement read. \u201cSecretary Noem\u2019s message to the rioters is clear: you will not stop us or slow us down. ICE and our federal law enforcement partners will continue to enforce the law. And if you lay a hand on a law enforcement officer, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n
During the Old Irving Park encounter, a 67-year-old woman was \u201cknocked to the ground\u201d by masked agents, an ICE rapid responder told Block Club. The clash occurred just before the Old Irving Park Association Halloween Parade was set to march down the street, disrupting the event, neighbors said in a local rapid response chat.<\/p>\n
Around 9:45 a.m. Saturday, James Hotchkiss was leaving his home to attend the nearby costume parade with his wife and children when he heard whistles in the area, which is a rapid response tactic to alert of ICE sightings. He told his family to stay inside and approached the sound.<\/p>\n
Hotchkiss saw a black SUV, two silver SUVs and officers turning south onto Kildare from Grace. <\/p>\n
\u201cAt that point, I saw a man running towards me followed by 2-3 officers chasing after him. They tackled him onto a neighbor\u2019s front yard.\u201d<\/p>\n
In Chicago, masked federal agents drive around in unmarked vehicles grabbing mostly brown people off the street. When others object, they\u2019re met with violence and tear gas. Here an agent shoved a woman at full force to the ground https:\/\/t.co\/UNKYOdfY7N<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Gregory Royal Pratt (@royalpratt) October 25, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n A large group of neighbors, some still in their pajamas, gathered at the scene to heckle the officers arresting Villegas, Hotchkiss said. After getting into verbal altercations with rapid responders attempting to block their paths of exit, agents hopped out of their cars, put on their gas masks and attacked at least two different people, he said.<\/p>\n Around 9:55, Hotchkiss saw smoke in the air and heard several neighbors yell that agents had deployed tear gas.<\/p>\n \u201cI took my glasses off because my eyes were burning,\u201d he said. \u201cI saw someone pour water on a gas canister that appeared to be on fire.\u201d<\/p>\n In the midst of the chaos, Hotchkiss witnessed agents forcing two neighbors on the ground, forcefully arresting them. The unmarked SUVs drove away a little after 10 a.m. with the three detained people, Hotchkiss said.<\/p>\n The 70-year-old man was released with some injuries, neighbors said.<\/p>\n \u201cThese actions are harmful, traumatic, illegal and uncalled for,\u201d said State Rep. Lindsey LaPointe, in a Facebook<\/a> post.<\/p>\n About 10:30 a.m., near the intersection of Harding Avenue and Roscoe Street in Avondale, agents threw out tear gas at neighbors responding to another arrest, according to a rapid responder. Details surrounding the arrest remained unclear.<\/p>\n Neighbors saw at least one person detained during the Avondale confrontation, according to a rapid responder who tried to follow an unmarked federal vehicle away from the scene.<\/p>\n The two instances of tear gas deployment Saturday follow several instances of tear gas use throughout the week as part of federal actions in Operation Midway Blitz and Operation At Large. On Wednesday, Federal agents used pepper spray on neighbors near a grocery store in Cicero<\/a>; on Thursday, agents tear gassed dozens of residents \u2013 including several high school students \u2013 near Little Village\u2019s Discount Mall<\/a>; and on Friday, roughly 50 Lakeview neighbors were tear-gassed near a residential construction site<\/a>.<\/p>\n