The Chicago Police Department on Friday released 13 heavily redacted body camera videos depicting the initial response to a crash and shooting in Brighton Park involving federal immigration agents that ended in tear gas.

The videos also captured an order relayed to rank-and-file officers from CPD’s chief of patrol to “clear out from there, we’re not sending anybody over to that location.” That order remains the subject of a CPD internal affairs investigation.

With a siren in the background and a helicopter above, the videos show Chicago police officers trying to clear Kedzie Avenue of vehicles involved in the Oct. 4 crash and secure an ambulance for a person taken into custody by immigration agents.

Minutes earlier, a federal agent shot a woman who allegedly “boxed in” and rammed a

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