Rafael Veraza and Evelin Herrera were headed to Sam’s Club in Cicero with their 1-year-old daughter Saturday for diapers, eggs, milk and other groceries, when they heard car horns and helicopters. Just across the city line, federal agents were descending on Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood.

As they pulled into the parking lot at the intersection of Ogden Avenue and 26th Street, the Berwyn couple saw a convoy of federal vehicles driving toward them. Herrera took her phone out to record, following the advice of her mother. They decided to turn around.

A few seconds later, a black car, traveling the opposite direction from them, rolled past. Herrera’s video shows a masked, helmeted man pointing a pepper-spray gun through his open window and firing into the car. A wave of a yellow-orang

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