Chicago Tribune visual journalist Stacey Wescott has been making pictures in and around Chicago for 26 years. On Friday, she was assigned to document a protest outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding center in Broadview, where activists have been gathering routinely to show their opposition to the Trump administration’s surge in illegal immigration enforcement actions in the region. During the protest on Sept. 19, federal agents deployed a significant amount of a chemical agent upon protesters who were attempting to obstruct ICE workers and others at the facility.

During an ensuing melee after gas was deployed, Wescott made a photograph of former Marine Curtis Evans carrying an American flag amid a cloud of gas in the middle of the confrontation.

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