A video recorded by onlookers one night in January shows liquid spewing out the passenger window of a moving pickup truck onto a crowd of people gathered in front of a Zipps Sports Grill — one of a handful of the restaurant chain’s locations raided by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agents earlier that day.
Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego raised the issue during a February City Council meeting to plan how the city will respond to lawlessness by federal authorities.
“At 32nd Street and Shea (Boulevard), ICE agents pepper sprayed protesters with no cause whatsoever. That appears to be assault,” Gallego said. “There is a well founded fear that what ICE has done in Minneapolis could happen in Phoenix.”…