FOREST PARK, Ill. - The mayor of Forest Park says there is a surge of ICE activity in the village.

He wants his west suburban community to know that ICE agents assaulted and detained American citizens on private property last week.

What we know:

Forest Park Mayor Rory E. Hoskins provided cell phone video showing federal agents demanding to be let into Concordia Cemetery, and the vapor of chemicals deployed on four cemetery workers.

One of the workers told Fox 32 they heard a man in distress in the Des Plaines River on October 7.

When they looked into it, federal agents demanded access to the locked cemetery. The agents were told it was private property.

The agents cut the lock on the gate and, according to the workers, deployed pepper spray, body slammed, and cuffed them for fi

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