WASHINGTON — A left-wing influencer -turned-Democratic congressional candidate has been charged with impeding federal immigration enforcement in Chicago.

Kat Abughazaleh, formerly employed by the liberal watchdog Media Matters, was indicted along with four others on charges of having “conspired … to prevent by force, intimidation, and threat” a federal law enforcement officer from carrying out official duties in a manner seeking “to injure him in his person or property.”

Abughazaleh and her alleged co-conspirators “physically hindered and impeded” an unidentified officer who was “forced to drive at an extremely slow rate of speed to avoid injuring any of the conspirators” during a protest outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Broadview, Ill., west of downt

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