STORY: Scores of protesters faced off against federal immigration agents on the Chicago's southwest side on Saturday (October 4) after U.S. Border Patrol personnel shot an armed woman, the Department of Homeland Security said.

No law enforcement officers were seriously injured in the incident in which a group that included the woman rammed cars into vehicles used by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said in a statement. The woman, a U.S. citizen who was not identified, drove herself to the hospital, according to the statement.

No additional information was immediately available about the woman's condition. ICE agents fired pepper spray and loaded rubber bullets as part of heated exchanges with protesters on Saturday.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, a Democrat, said on Saturday that he was given an ultimatum by Republican President Donald Trump to deploy the state's National Guard.

People in the Chicago area have staged repeated protests condemning the stepped-up federal presence.

DESCRIPCIÓN DE IMÁGENES

SHOWS:

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, UNITED STATES (OCTOBER 4, 2025) (REUTERS - Access all)

1. PROTESTER THROWING SIGN THROUGH TEAR GAS/ GROUND AS REPORTER RUNS FROM TEAR GAS

2. WALKING SHOT THROUGH CROWD STANDING UNDER MEXICAN FLAG AND CHANTING (IN SPANISH:) 'A PEOPLE UNITED WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED' AS THEY FACE OFF WITH MASKED AGENTS IN STREET

3. CROWD STANDING UNDER LARGE MEXICAN FLAG AND CHANTING FOR ICE TO GO HOME

4. PROTESTERS YELLING 'GO HOME! SHOW YOUR FACE! FUCK ICE' AS MASKED AGENTS STAND ON STREET

5. MASKED AGENTS WALKING TOWARD CROWD AS PROTESTERS WALK BACKWARDS

6. LINE OF MASKED AGENTS WALKING TOWARD PROTESTERS

7. VARIOUS AGENTS STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET AS PROTESTERS CAN BE SEEN ON BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET

8. MAN WITH BULLHORN LEADING CHANT (IN SPANISH:) 'You can see it. You can feel it. The people are present.'

9. LINE OF FEDERAL AGENTS IN STREET

10. (SOUNDBITE) (English) CHICAGO ALDERMAN BYRON SIGCHO-LOPEZ WHO REPRESENTS THE CITY'S 25TH WARD SAYING:

"Here we are in Brighton Park, Chicago, on 39th and Kedzie. There was a shooting earlier, an ICE-involved shooting. We want to demand an investigation about the escalating violence. They are escalating violence in the city. This is not making anyone safer. These raids, you saw that the raids that they did a few days ago, they were innocent people. They have not shown the need to go and terrorize families in the middle of the night, zip-locking kids, getting people naked in the middle of the street. Is that public safety? Is this public safety, ended up with a shooting? Some being chased and now wrecked a few blocks away from here? This isn't keeping nobody safe. And they know that."

11. WHITE FLASH

12. (SOUNDBITE) (English) CHICAGO ALDERMAN BYRON SIGCHO-LOPEZ WHO REPRESENTS THE CITY'S 25TH WARD SAYING:

"Look at what's going on. These are war zones. These are war zones in neighborhoods that are full of life, full of culture, full of life, full of vibrancy. We love our diversity. This is perpetrated by people who want to go back 100 years ago to the civil rights, where people lynched, where there were people getting lynched. This is what this is about, and we've got to unite working people against this fascist, authoritarian regime."

13. FEDERAL AGENTS (SOME WEARING BORDER PATROL BADGES) AND CHICAGO POLICE STANDING IN MIDDLE OF STREET

14. POLICE OFFICERS TALKING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET AS WOMAN (OFF-CAMERA) YELLS THAT SHE WANTS TO FILE A POLICE REPORT BECAUSE SHE WAS ASSAULTED BY ICE TODAY / PAN TO MASKED FEDERAL AGENTS ON STREET AND PROTESTERS ON SIDEWALK

15. CHICAGO POLICE AND FEDERAL AGENTS STANDING NEXT TO EACH OTHER IN LINE BLOCKING STREET AS PROTESTERS YELL

16. MASKED FEDERAL AGENTS RETREATING ON STREET

17. LINE OF CHICAGO POLICE NOT WEARING MASKS FACING ANGRY PROTESTERS

18. CONFRONTATION BETWEEN PROTESTER AND CHICAGO POLICE WHO ARE STANDING BETWEEN ANGRY CROWD AND MASKED FEDERAL AGENTS / AGENTS IN REAR APPEAR TO BE DETAINING SOMEONE AS TEAR GAS GOES OFF

19. TEAR GAS FILLING STREET AS PROTESTERS RUN PAST UNMASKED CHICAGO POLICE OFFICERS

20. PROTESTERS POURING LIQUID INTO EYES