Rep. Adelita Grijalva of Arizona says she was pepper-sprayed at an anti-ICE protest after an immigration raid at a taco restaurant in Tucson.
Demonstrators had gathered near Taco Giro, a Mexican eatery that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had targeted in a raid earlier that same day, on Dec. 5. The Democrat was in the vicinity when the protest began, according to her aide Nate Sigal.
After her team was alerted to the unfolding situation, she made her way to the location, where she was pepper-sprayed, Sigal explained. “ICE is a lawless agency under this Administration – operating with no transparency, no accountability, and open disregard for basic due process,” she wrote…