How ICE and federal agents are breaking rules to use less-lethal weapons against protesters | CNN
Leigh Kunkel never saw the federal agent pointing a pepper ball gun at her face from about twenty feet away. Kunkel, a freelance journalist at a protest outside an immigration detention center in Chicago on September 26, was crouched behind a van when an agent took aim from a safe perch behind a chain link fence. He fired multiple rounds at Kunkel, video shows. Her nose exploded in blood and pain. âI was lucky that Iâd been wearing the respirator. It very likely could have broken my nose if I hadnât been,â Kunkel said. âInsanely lucky that he didnât hit me, you know, two inches higher and I could have lost an eye.â Firing a pepper ball gun at someoneâs face violates numerous federal and local police rules â yet the incident is far from an aberration for the federal officers who have confronted protesters demonstrating against President Donald Trumpâs mass deportation effort in cities like Minneapolis and Chicago. A CNN analysis of more than two dozen videos of federal agents using less-lethal weapons such as chemical sprays, pepper ball guns and rubber bullets found officers routinely violated both federal and local law enforcement use-of-force policies. Those i
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