A progressive member of the Chicago City Council was detained Friday after pressing federal agents about the due process rights of a detainee being held in a hospital within her ward.

Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes told reporters she had gone to Humboldt Park Hospital upon hearing that a roughly 37-year-old man—who was being chased by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during an operation in the neighborhood—had fallen, broken his leg, and was taken to the hospital by the agents.

The agents, whom she identified as ICE, were not letting the man speak with lawyers, Fuentes said. A video of the incident, which begins amid a back-and-forth between the elected official and two agents, was shared on Fuentes’s Facebook page.

The footage begins with Fuentes stressing that the detained man has constitutional rights, to which one agent replied, “No. No.” The alderperson asked whether the agents had a signed judicial warrant for him.

“You need to leave,” the agent answered, threatening to arrest her. The other agent, a masked man, told Fuentes, “You are going to be placed under arrest—”

Before he could finish, his partner violently yanked Fuentes’s arm with both hands, turned her around, and placed her in handcuffs. A woman behind the camera can be heard saying, “This is an alderperson who is being [placed] under arrest!”

While being handcuffed, Fuentes inquired repeatedly about a warrant for the injured man, and seemingly told the men the handcuffs were hurting her. She emphasized that she had not touched the agents, and the man who handcuffed her said she was “under arrest for impeding.”

“That man has constitutional rights,” Fuentes repeated, before the masked agent brought her to the exit door. “I did not touch you. It is a public space. I am not trespassing. I am asking you: Do you have a signed judicial warrant?”

The masked agent eventually replied that he did not need a warrant.

At a press conference, Fuentes said she was ultimately brought outside, where Border Patrol agents were going to put her into a vehicle. However, she was released from her handcuffs, she said, upon asking, “What law did I break, outside of exercising my constitutional right to ask if they had a signed judicial warrant?”

According to Block Club Chicago, a local news site, Fuentes was told she would be arrested if she reentered the building.

Fuentes told the press that this is “not the first incident” of its kind, but “common practice,” as “ICE has been taking individuals into hospital rooms, into emergency rooms, because people are harmed while ICE is trying to detain people in the city of Chicago.”

“What ICE is doing is exercising violence,” she said, “physical violence on the people of Chicago.”

Republican Senator Roger Marshall humiliated himself Friday as his baseless claims that Americans blamed Democrats for the government shutdown crumbled around him.

The Kansas Republican became tongue-tied during an interview on CNN when anchor Brianna Keilar noted a recent poll from The Washington Post that found that roughly 47 percent of U.S. adults held President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress accountable for shuttering the federal government, while only 30 percent blamed Democrats. Another 23 percent said they weren’t sure who to blame.

“Oh, I think that’s a very false scenario right there. I think everybody realizes this is a Schumer shutdown, that this is a politically driven shutdown, driven by AOC and the Squad and the Liberal-Marxist portion of the Democrat Party,” Marshall said. “I think that’s truly, truly what’s going on here, and then none of their arguments make sense why they’re trying to shut it down. It just doesn’t make any sense to anybody.

“So I would just discount that poll altogether, and that’s not what I’m hearing from back home,” he said.

“Why do you discount that?” asked Keilar.

“Well, I just think that there are so much other polls that say just the opposite. I think that the arguments out there—” Marshall said.

“Which one?” Keilar interjected, prompting the senator to provide any information to back up his claim.

“I don’t have them at my fingertips right now. I can tell you that that’s a very biased poll. I’m absolutely convinced—” Marshall continued.

“Why is it biased, can you explain?” Keilar pressed.

“I don’t even know which, which—who is it from? I don’t even know,” Marshall stumbled.

“The Washington Post. I mean if it’s biased, you should know which one it is. It’s the Washington Post poll,” Keilar told the Republican, who was certain the poll was fake but not sure what poll they were even talking about.

“Yeah. I don’t know. I don’t think you can take a snapshot like that,” Marshall said, before launching back into the exact talking points he had already rattled off.

Earlier this week, Marshall feebly attempted to defend Trump’s racist memes about House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, likening the commander in chief to a little boy playing with a dog.

Donald Trump might be getting his face put on a coin while he’s still president.

On Friday, U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach, who heads the mint, confirmed the government’s draft plans of a $1 coin with Trump’s face on it to commemorate America’s 250th birthday.

“Looking forward to sharing more soon, once the obstructionist shutdown of the United States government is over,” he added.

The mock-up shared by MAGA commentator Steve Guest features Trump’s side profile on one side of the coin and, on the other, the caption “FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT” alongside an image of Trump raising his fist, mimicking the iconic photo of him after surviving an assassination attempt last year.

“Despite the radical left’s forced shutdown of our government, the facts are clear: Under the historic leadership of President Donald J. Trump, our nation is entering its 250th anniversary stronger, more prosperous, and better than ever before,” the Treasury Department said in a statement. “While a final $1 dollar [sic] coin design has not yet been selected to commemorate the United States’ semiquincentennial, this first draft reflects well the enduring spirit of our country and democracy, even in the face of immense obstacles.”

Trump, who is fond of depicting himself on massive posters and merchandise, will likely be delighted.

“Oh, I’m not sure he’s seen it,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said when asked what Trump thought about the announcement. “But I’m sure he’ll love it.”

President Trump on Friday issued a self-congratulatory social media post, announcing the restoration of counterterrorism funds to New York—which his administration cut in the first place.

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