CHICAGO >> A federal judge in Chicago today said immigration officials had lied about the nature of local protests against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the city, and ordered agents to restrict their use of tear gas and other anti-riot weapons in the area.

At a hearing, U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis said she did not find government witnesses’ allegations about violence at the protests in the country’s third-largest city to be credible, and cited several incidents where she said body camera video and other recordings directly contradicted what immigration officials said happened. She granted a request from a group of protesters, journalists and clergy members for a preliminary injunction restricting federal immigration agents’ use of force against them.

After having

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