Police in a Chicago suburb are collecting videos and other evidence to send to the Illinois attorney general’s office after a car crash involving a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle led to a violent arrest caught on video showing an agent repeatedly punching a man in the head while pinned to the ground.

Immigration agents arrested three people after a sedan collided with the rear of the U.S. Border Patrol vehicle at around noon Friday in the city of Evanston. The episode drew a crowd of onlookers and quickly escalated. Videos posted to social media showed some in the crowd appearing to try to interfere with the arrests. Federal agents are seen at times deploying pepper spray, punching a man who approached the officers, and pointing a gun in the direction of another woman who had opened the agent

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