A Democratic Illinois congressional candidate on Friday attempted to obstruct ICE operations during a rally at which protesters called for the shooting of federal agents.

Kat Abughazaleh, a former Media Matters for America staffer and current candidate in the Democratic primary for Illinois’s Ninth Congressional District, posted videos on X showing her attempts to prevent ICE officers from conducting their mission in the Cook County town of Broadview.

“At the Broadview ICE facility, an ICE agent tried to run dozens of protesters over with an SUV as we walked on a public crosswalk,” Abughazaleh said in one post that depicts the crowd trying to block the vehicle. “He kept driving for about a full football field until ICE barraged us with pepper balls.”

Additional footage showed Abughazaleh sitting with fellow demonstrators—many of them masked—singing, “We Shall Not Be Moved” outside the Broadview ICE facility, but further video footage captured much more incendiary rhetoric. Protesters at the rally were caught on tape screaming “shoot ICE” and “shoot the f—ers.”

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