CHICAGO — Federal agents handcuffed Humboldt Park-area Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th) as she confronted them Friday at Humboldt Park Hospital.

Agents handcuffed Fuentes, forced her out of the hospital and threatened her with arrest, Fuentes told a Block Club reporter.

“It shows just how much this is escalating,” Fuentes told Block Club. “They don’t care about people’s constitutional rights. They can handcuff an elected official for doing absolutely nothing — just imagine what they’re doing to the residents in the city of Chicago, whether they are documented or not. These federal agents don’t give a damn.”

A video of the Friday afternoon incident shows Fuentes at the hospital, asking federal agents if they had a signed warrant and telling the agents a man — who they were arresting — has Cons

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