"Arinna couldn't open her eyes or breathe properly, and bystanders rushed to help. Herrera and Veraza were taken to the hospital, where doctors called poison control for Arinna and rinsed Veraza's face with saline solution, since he'd been hit directly. He told the Chicago Tribune that while he remembers feeling his face go numb, his "first thought" was his daughter. "I didn't even care if it got to me," he said. "My heartbeat was at 263 per minute.""
"When Jezebel reached out to DHS for comment, we were referred to a tweet by DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin, who reply-posted a video of teary-eyed Arinna and wrote: "No. There was no crowd control or pepper spray deployed in a Sam's Club parking lot," the post says. "Though, over the weekend in Chicago, law enforcement was shot at, bricks thrown at them, they were rammed with vehicles and other attacks." Mhm."
"Over the weekend, DHS agents also faced backlash after a video went viral showing a man seizing during an arrest while clutching to his toddler in a car in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. And last week, after a man was detained during a raid in Los Angeles, immigration agents took his car-where his nearly two-year-old daughter sat in the back-and drove away. (The child was eventually reunited with her grandmother, but what the actual fuck? No hell hot enough.)"
Federal immigration agents sprayed chemicals into a family's vehicle in Cicero, striking a one-year-old who could not open her eyes or breathe properly. Bystanders rushed to assist while the parents were taken to a hospital; doctors called poison control for the child and rinsed the father's face with saline. DHS publicly denied deploying pepper spray at a Sam's Club parking lot and claimed agents faced gunfire, bricks and vehicle ramming, but local police reported no record of a shooting from inside a car. Separate viral incidents in Massachusetts and Los Angeles intensified backlash against DHS actions.
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