WATCH: Democratic Congressional Candidate Slammed to the Ground by ICE in Shocking Clip

Tom Durante Sep 19th, 2025, 1:42 pm

A Democratic congressional candidate who joined an Illinois ICE protest found herself tear-gassed and viciously tossed to the ground by an ICE agent.

The brutal moment came Friday as Kat Abughazaleh (D), who is running for Congress in Illinois’s 9th district, and other demonstrators protested outside an ICE facility in Broadview Friday morning.

She said the group was tear-gassed and shot with pepper balls — and that one activist was dragged into the facility.

Videos taken at the scene show an ICE officer picking up Abughazaleh and slamming her to the ground. She landed on her backside with an audible thud.

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