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FRANKLIN PARK — Federal immigration brokers fatally shot a person in suburban Franklin Park after they stated the person drove his automotive at them, dragging an officer and inflicting him to worry for his life, officers stated on the time.
However physique digital camera footage obtained by the Solar-Instances exhibits a federal agent who was concerned within the Sept. 12 deadly capturing of Silverio Villegas González inform police his accidents obtained throughout the incident had been “nothing main.”
The footage, which the Solar-Instances bought from the Franklin Park Police Division by way of a public data request, exhibits an ICE agent inform a Franklin Park cop that Villegas González tried to run him and his companion over.
Within the video, the agent’s companion is seen with a bloodied knee. In keeping with the Solar-Instances, the agent instructed police that he was “dragged just a little bit.”
Later, the video exhibits the ICE agent who stated Villegas González tried to run him and his companion over talking over a radio. The agent stated his companion had “a left knee damage and a few lacerations to his fingers.”
The injured agent stated “nothing main” and his companion repeated “nothing main” into the radio, in keeping with the Solar-Instances.
The deadly capturing occurred the morning of Sept. 12 close to a Franklin Park intersection, the place officers tried to cease Villegas González. A couple of hours after the capturing, the Division of Homeland Safety launched a press release that stated ICE brokers stopped Villegas González, who “refused to comply with regulation enforcements instructions and drove his automotive at regulation enforcement officers. One of many ICE officers was hit by the automotive and dragged a big distance.”
“The officer sustained a number of accidents and is in steady situation,” the assertion stated.
In keeping with the physique cam footage and a Franklin Park police report obtained by Block Membership, officers spoke to a truck driver who stated he noticed Villegas González reverse his automotive as ICE brokers tried to arrest him. The truck driver stated Villegas González misplaced management and crashed into his truck. He instructed police he heard no less than one gunshot, in keeping with the Solar-Instances.
ICE brokers concerned within the deadly capturing weren’t carrying physique cameras throughout the incident, the Solar-Instances reported final week.
The Consulate Basic of Mexico in Chicago confirmed that Villegas González was a Mexican nationwide. State Rep. Norma Hernandez stated the 38-year-old was the daddy of two younger sons, a 7-year-old and a 3-year-old, and was his household’s sole supplier.
The capturing occurred shortly after he dropped his youngsters off at college, Hernandez stated. A GoFundMe has been arrange for Villegas González’s household and has raised practically $58,000 as of Tuesday.
Final week, Gov. JB Pritzker known as for an investigation into the capturing, a sentiment Mayor Brandon Johnson echoed throughout a press occasion Tuesday.
“This was a tragedy. And a father, a employee, a human being, their life was taken from us due to this ungodly management on the federal degree,” Johnson stated. “I imagine what’s obligatory on this second is that the federal authorities has a duty to test the habits and the exercise of regulation enforcement, and so it could possibly be applicable for the Division of Justice to determine an impartial investigation exterior of itself.”
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