An Evanston woman spoke publicly last week about her experience being detained by U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials in an altercation gone awry on Halloween in the northern suburb.

Jennifer Moriarty told her story to Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss in a livestream on Biss’s campaign website on Wednesday.

Moriarty, who said she was a U.S. citizen, was one of three people who were handcuffed and loaded by federal agents into their vehicle after a civilian woman in a red car and a federal vehicle were involved in a car crash.

Moriarty said she tried to film the aftermath of the car crash and federal agents detained her.

Video of the crash’s aftermath shows an agent wrestled and pinned a young man to the ground, with the agent’s knee on the young man’s back, beating him and dra

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