"My daughter was trying to open her eyes. She was struggling to breathe, Veraza told reporters at a press conference Sunday, a day after an operation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the store."
"There was no crowd control or pepper spray deployed in a Sam's Club parking lot, assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin said."
"We're not protestors. We were not even attacking them, Veraza said, adding that he decided to abandon the shopping trip and drive away when he saw a helicopter hovering overhead and heard honking car horns as well as sirens, suggesting to him that an ICE operation was under way."
"Rioters began throwing objects at agents and blocking the road."
An Illinois family including a US one-year-old daughter were allegedly sprayed with a cloudy substance while seated in their car outside a Sam's Club in Cicero. Video shows Rafael Veraza clutching his face after a masked agent allegedly fired the substance through an open window from a pickup truck traveling in the opposite direction. The family reported the infant had streaming eyes and breathing difficulty and that the mother and sister were also hit. The Department of Homeland Security denied any crowd control or pepper spray deployment and posted that rioters had thrown objects and blocked the road. Community activists and a local pastor who recorded the scene said the family were not protesters and called for different tactics; the family said they had been driving away after noticing a helicopter and sirens.
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