Federal immigration authorities fired guns at a Chicago activist who was trying to impede them in Brighton Park Saturday morning, Department of Homeland Security officials said.

The description of what happened immediately became a point of contention as the Trump administration and local pro-immigrant groups shared clashing descriptions of the shooting. Chicago police said one person was wounded in the shooting near the intersection of 39th Street and South Kedzie Avenue.

Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said officers were “forced to deploy their weapons and fire defensive shots at an armed US citizen who drove herself to the hospital to get care for wounds.” Drivers had boxed in and rammed the car the agents drove in, she wrote in a post on X, formerly kno

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