Multiple immigration agents detained a man on Wednesday outside Cook County’s main criminal courthouse on the Southwest Side in a chaotic struggle that broke a fence and left blood on the pavement, according to video footage provided to the Tribune by the Cook County Public Defender’s Office.

It was not clear whether the agents had secured a warrant for the man’s arrest. Absent a court order, immigration arrests of people attending court are prohibited in or around county courthouses by a General Order issued last month by Chief Judge Tim Evans .

Department of Homeland Security officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment or answer a question about whether the agents obtained a warrant.

Civil immigration enforcement has historically not often happened around courthou

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