Overview
- Attorney Jan Susler of the People’s Law Office filed the administrative claim Tuesday seeking $100,000 in personal injury damages for Fuentes.
- The claim names the Department of Homeland Security because the agents involved in the Oct. 3 encounter did not identify themselves.
- Video from Humboldt Park Health shows a plainclothes agent grabbing, spinning and handcuffing Fuentes after she asked whether they had a warrant, before she was released outside.
- The filing alleges injuries to Fuentes’s wrists, shoulders and arms and describes extreme mental distress resulting from the handcuffing.
- The incident occurred during ICE’s Operation Midway Blitz, which officials say has led to more than 1,000 arrests as local reporting documents repeated uses of force, including one fatal shooting.