The Department of Homeland Security and Donald Trump’s leading immigration enforcer have been accused of inventing a rock attack to justify tear gas use—then lying about it in court.

Plaintiffs told a federal judge there is “uncontroverted evidence” that DHS and Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino, 55, provided false evidence about why he hurled a canister at protesters in Chicago’s Little Village.

The court filing says the government’s original story—that Bovino only deployed gas after being struck in the head by a rock—collapsed under scrutiny, “providing a strong basis for this court to doubt defendants’ credibility.”

Urging the court to question the government’s word in the future, civil-rights and journalist groups bringing the case wrote that they “believe there is un

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