Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva of Arizona said Friday that she was pepper sprayed and "pushed around" by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents following a raid at a Tucson restaurant.

In a video statement posted on X , Grijalva said that during an ICE raid on Friday, local Tucsonans had gathered to stop a group of roughly 40 ICE agents, many of them masked and in several vehicles, in the middle of the street near a restaurant that she frequents.

Grijalva said she was "sprayed in the face by a very aggressive agent, pushed around by others, when I literally was not being aggressive, I was asking for clarification, which is my right as a member of Congress."

Department for Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin denied Grijalva's account, saying instead that the congress

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