The mayor of a Chicago suburb in which a Border Patrol agent was filmed punching a U.S. citizen in the head during an immigration stop has accused the Department of Homeland Security of lying about what led up to it.

Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss, 48, said he’s opening two investigations after Border Patrol agents were seen on video kneeling on the man and striking him repeatedly in the back of the head as he was handcuffed.

DHS said agents on an immigration operation were “aggressively tailgated” by a red sedan that then crashed into the Border Patrol SUV as agents tried to execute a U-turn, leading to a “hostile crowd” forming.

But Biss told CNN, “They forced this car accident, and then they started literally beating up innocent bystanders,” calling DHS “a bunch of liars.”

The mayor als

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