U.S. Border Patrol agents shot an armed woman in Chicago Saturday after an angry mob tried to attack the law enforcement officers.
The group of agents were conducting their routine patrol near 39th Place and South Kedzie Avenue in the city’s South Side “when they were attacked and rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars,” the Department of Homeland Security said.
“The officers exited their trapped vehicle, when a suspect tried to run them over, forcing the officers to fire defensively,” according to DHS, which called the incident “an evolving situation” and noted FBI agents were currently on the scene.
The suspect, who is a U.S. citizen, was armed with a semi-automatic weapon, department spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said.
The gun-toting woman was already known to the federal agency for allegedly publicly identifying agents and encouraging people to attack them, according to McLaughlin.
“The armed woman was named in a CBP intelligence bulletin last week for doxing agents and posting online ‘Hey to all my gang let’s f–k those mother f–kers up, don’t let them take anyone,’” McLaughlin wrote on X.
More federal agents were set to be deployed because of the incident, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote on X.
“Today in Chicago, members of our brave law enforcement were attacked—rammed and boxed in by ten vehicles, including an attacker with a semi-automatic weapon.I am deploying more special operations to control the scene. Reinforcements are on their way,” she wrote.
“If you see a law enforcement officer today, thank them,” Noem added.
The armed woman, who was not immediately identified, drove herself to the hospital after the shooting “to get care for her wounds,” McLaughlin added.
A spokesperson for the Chicago Fire Department told the Chicago Sun-Times the woman was later found and taken to a local hospital in stable condition.
The fire department could not immediately be reached for comment.
The time and location of the shooting weren’t immediately clear.
“Thankfully, no law enforcement officers were seriously injured in the attack,” wrote McLaughlin, who then ripped the lefty Illinois governor for failing to help with the fallout of the gunfire. --->READ MORE HERE
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Border Patrol agents fired on a woman Saturday who pulled a gun on them after an incident in which multiple vehicles tried to box in the agents in Chicago.
“This morning, Border Patrol agents were conducting a routine patrol, near the intersection of 39th Place and S. Kedzie Avenue, when they were attacked and rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars,” according to a Department of Homeland Security news release.
“The officers exited their trapped vehicle, when a suspect tried to run them over, forcing the officers to fire defensively,” the release added.
Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the vehicle was rammed and surrounded, forcing agents out of the vehicle.
“One of the drivers who rammed the law enforcement vehicle was armed with a semi-automatic weapon. Law enforcement was forced to deploy their weapons and fired defensive shots at an armed US citizen who drove herself to the hospital to get care for wounds,” she said.
The individual is known to dislike Border Patrol, McLaughlin said.
“The armed woman was named in a CBP intelligence bulletin last week for doxing agents online,” she said, noting that no agents were hurt.
“Unfortunately, JB Pritzker’s Chicago Police Department is leaving the shooting scene and refuses to assist us in securing the area. There is a crowd growing and we are deploying special operations to control a growing crowd,” she wrote. --->READ MORE HERE
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