ICE agents use tear gas in Elgin {Illinois} as hours long standoff ends in man's arrest
Source: Chicago Sun Times
A man was detained at an Elgin apartment complex after an hourslong standoff with federal agents Saturday that sparked clashes with protesters and saw tear gas and a flash-bang grenade deployed. Protesters at the scene say the standoff began shortly before 10 a.m. in the 1600 block of Maple Lane when someone being pursued by federal agents ran into a second-floor unit of an apartment complex and was pushed onto the balcony by residents inside.
Around 3 p.m., agents could be seen escorting the man from the second floor of the complex.
Elgin-born state Sen. Cristina Castro was among those present Saturday afternoon as agents detained the man. “Some folks were throwing him blankets and food, and ICE had all this region surrounded [and] eventually broke in, grabbed him, and yanked him out,” Castro said.
Several dozen protesters were in the neighborhood providing supplies to the man as he stayed on the balcony, witnesses said.
Read more: https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/12/06/tear-gas-deployed-in-elgin-as-feds-detain-man-after-hours-long-standoff
Worth reading the whole story. Quite a bit of interesting detail.
From one way of looking at it, just more of the same.
From another way, more evidence for a future trial (I hope).
