This investigation was co-produced by Block Club Chicago, Cicero Independiente, the Investigative Project on Race and Equity, Invisible Institute, South Side Weekly, and The TRiiBE.
José* was inside his Brighton Park home with his wife María* and their pets on October 4 when the smell of tear gas overwhelmed him.
“The gas seeped in and we started choking, so I said, ‘[Get] the bird and the cat,’” María said in Spanish. (José and María are pseudonyms we are using due to concerns about retribution.)…