A federal grand jury has indicted Kat Abughazaleh, a Democrat running to represent Illinois’s 9th Congressional District, over a confrontation last month outside the Chicago Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) command center.
The indictment, filed on Oct. 23 and unsealed on Oct. 29, accuses Abughazaleh and five other protesters of “hindering and impeding” an ICE officer by blocking an agency vehicle during a protest last month in Broadview, a western suburb of Chicago.
According to the court filing, the protesters “banged aggressively on the [vehicle’s] side and back windows, hood, and other vehicle body parts” and “pushed against the vehicle to hinder and impede its movement.”…