All three immigration agents in the unmarked silver Chevrolet Tahoe SUV had body cameras. Only the one in the right-rear passenger seat had his recording as they rolled through South Kedzie Avenue in Chicago on the morning of October 5.
But that was enough to preserve what one of the agents said as they decided to take action against a woman in a silver Nissan Rogue for having the audacity to follow them for a few minutes.
Months later, the world can finally know what really happened, and see the dark aftermath of a few sudden seconds in which an American citizen was filled with bullets, only for her government’s officials, possibly even the chief executive, to celebrate a moment in which that American thought she would die.
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