Children were playing on the monkey bars in the schoolyard outside Funston Elementary School just before noon on Oct. 3, when an unmarked SUV rolled down their street in Chicago’s Logan Square, a predominately Hispanic neighborhood that’s been steadily gentrifying for years.

Cars followed behind it, drivers laying on their horns to alert neighbors that this was an immigration raid. A motorcycle pulled in front of the SUV, trying to block it, just yards from the school. There were no mass protests, no violence, some teachers walking to lunch weren’t even sure anything was happening.

Suddenly, tear gas canisters flew from the window of the SUV. Smoke billowed. Teachers ran.

The Hispanic community has lived with this terror for months, local business owner Aguirre-Avalos said. She runs Luna y Cielo Play Cafe, a Spanish-language child care center near a few buildings away from where the tear gas was deployed.

“These kids are traumatized,” Aguirre-Avalos said.