DOJ Indicts Kat Abughazaleh After Protest at Illinois ICE Facility

The government accused the congressional candidate and others of planning to injure an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicle.

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The Trump administration is prosecuting Illinois congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh and five others for allegedly assaulting an immigration agent during protests over deportation raids.

A grand jury in Illinois indicted Abughazaleh, a content creator running to succeed Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky, on Wednesday.

The indictment alleges that Abughazaleh and five other protesters “conspired with one another and others, known and unknown, to prevent by force, intimidation, and threat … a United States law enforcement officer, from discharging the duties of his office.”