Suburban Chicago dad headed to store with toddler says they were pepper-sprayed by federal agents

Guno צְבִי

Guno צְבִי

We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
A suburban Chicago father and his 1-year-old daughter were pepper-sprayed at close range as they headed grocery shopping over the weekend and happened upon federal immigration agents, the family said.

Veraza said the family was in their car when they heard a helicopter and honking, common signals in the Chicago area these days that federal agents are nearby. They decided to leave.

That’s when a masked agent pointed a pepper-spray gun through their vehicle’s open window and fired. A cloudy substance hit Veraza in the face, which also affected his daughter, according to a video taken by the family.

“My daughter was trying to open her eyes,” Veraza told reporters Sunday, as his wife held their daughter nearby. “She was struggling to breathe.”

He said they were not protesting, honking their horns to warn others or trying to interfere.

A longtime pastor in the area, the Rev. Matt DeMateo, arrived at the scene to help and also recorded footage of Veraza struggling to open his eyes and of their daughter, Arianna, crying while her mother tried to comfort her.

“A family, and I shouldn't have to say this, but guess what? All U.S. citizens attacked while shopping,” he said. “We need a better way.”

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Suburban Chicago dad headed to store with toddler says they were pepper-sprayed by federal agents

A suburban Chicago father and his 1-year-old daughter were pepper-sprayed at close range as they headed grocery shopping over the weekend and happened upon federal immigration agents, the family said. Rafael Veraza said the incident happened in a Sam's Club parking lot in Cicero on Saturday...
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"A longtime pastor in the area, the Rev. Matt DeMateo, arrived at the scene to help"


riiiiight. help who? illegals?
 
Guno צְבִי said:
A suburban Chicago father and his 1-year-old daughter were pepper-sprayed at close range as they headed grocery shopping over the weekend and happened upon federal immigration agents, the family said.

Veraza said the family was in their car when they heard a helicopter and honking, common signals in the Chicago area these days that federal agents are nearby. They decided to leave.

That’s when a masked agent pointed a pepper-spray gun through their vehicle’s open window and fired. A cloudy substance hit Veraza in the face, which also affected his daughter, according to a video taken by the family.

“My daughter was trying to open her eyes,” Veraza told reporters Sunday, as his wife held their daughter nearby. “She was struggling to breathe.”

He said they were not protesting, honking their horns to warn others or trying to interfere.

A longtime pastor in the area, the Rev. Matt DeMateo, arrived at the scene to help and also recorded footage of Veraza struggling to open his eyes and of their daughter, Arianna, crying while her mother tried to comfort her.

“A family, and I shouldn't have to say this, but guess what? All U.S. citizens attacked while shopping,” he said. “We need a better way.”

www.yahoo.com

Suburban Chicago dad headed to store with toddler says they were pepper-sprayed by federal agents

A suburban Chicago father and his 1-year-old daughter were pepper-sprayed at close range as they headed grocery shopping over the weekend and happened upon federal immigration agents, the family said. Rafael Veraza said the incident happened in a Sam's Club parking lot in Cicero on Saturday...
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Fucking thugs harassing innocent bystanders for not passing some Trumped-up standards.
 
Guno צְבִי said:
A suburban Chicago father and his 1-year-old daughter were pepper-sprayed at close range as they headed grocery shopping over the weekend and happened upon federal immigration agents, the family said.

Veraza said the family was in their car when they heard a helicopter and honking, common signals in the Chicago area these days that federal agents are nearby. They decided to leave.

That’s when a masked agent pointed a pepper-spray gun through their vehicle’s open window and fired. A cloudy substance hit Veraza in the face, which also affected his daughter, according to a video taken by the family.

“My daughter was trying to open her eyes,” Veraza told reporters Sunday, as his wife held their daughter nearby. “She was struggling to breathe.”

He said they were not protesting, honking their horns to warn others or trying to interfere.

A longtime pastor in the area, the Rev. Matt DeMateo, arrived at the scene to help and also recorded footage of Veraza struggling to open his eyes and of their daughter, Arianna, crying while her mother tried to comfort her.

“A family, and I shouldn't have to say this, but guess what? All U.S. citizens attacked while shopping,” he said. “We need a better way.”

www.yahoo.com

Suburban Chicago dad headed to store with toddler says they were pepper-sprayed by federal agents

A suburban Chicago father and his 1-year-old daughter were pepper-sprayed at close range as they headed grocery shopping over the weekend and happened upon federal immigration agents, the family said. Rafael Veraza said the incident happened in a Sam's Club parking lot in Cicero on Saturday...
www.yahoo.com www.yahoo.com
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Wilkommen zu Trump's Amerika. Papieren, bitte.
 
derp derp.

the girlish appeal to emotion is pathetic.

are some cops bad? yep. do we need cops. yep

same with immigration enforcement

so fuck you libtards and your nonsensical appeals to emotion
 
zymurgy said:
"A longtime pastor in the area, the Rev. Matt DeMateo, arrived at the scene to help"


riiiiight. help who? illegals?
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Next time read the article before you dribble Putin diarrhea out your mouth

They are American Citizens
 
Matt DeMateo, arrived at the scene to produce more fodder for his facebook bullshit about helping illegals

so fuck off troll - this is where I live. that piece of shit is on my radar
 
zymurgy said:
derp derp.

the girlish appeal to emotion is pathetic.

are some cops bad? yep. do we need cops. yep

same with immigration enforcement

so fuck you libtards and your nonsensical appeals to emotion
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Only sociopaths or bot holes believe human emotions like compassion are NON MANLY


Go read what all those penis puffer pills you pop like candy corn are doing to your brain

Those steroids you think make you more manly?


Your idiocy and mental illness is just how the Russians had planned it would appear

Personality changes that bend toward violence and rash thinking

You fucks are dupe sponges

You just ask for more courses of duping into infinity
 
allowing emotions to override facts and commons sense is childish

fuck off dipshit. Matt DeMateo is a known piece of shit that supports sanctuary city policy.
 
Oh, this Yahoo yarn? What a steaming pile of selective sob-story slop, dressed up as journalism but reeking of agenda-driven selective blindness. Let's eviscerate it piece by piece, because if we're going to swallow tales of federal bogeymen dousing toddlers in pepper spray, we might as well choke on the inconsistencies and omissions that make it go down so easy for the outrage machine.First off, the headline alone is a masterclass in manipulative clickbait: "Suburban Chicago dad headed to store with toddler says they were pepper-sprayed by federal agents." Note that weasel word "says"—it's the only hedge in the whole damn thing, a flimsy fig leaf over what amounts to a one-sided deposition from a guy named Rafael Veraza, propped up by a conveniently timed pastor with a smartphone.

This isn't reporting; it's regurgitation. The article treats Veraza's play-by-play like gospel; masked agent pops a window, blasts him in the kisser, baby Arianna's wheezing like a punctured accordion, complete with heartstring-tugging quotes about her "struggling to breathe."

Adorable footage courtesy of Rev. Matt DeMateo, who swoops in like a clerical superhero to capture the tears.

But where's the corroboration? Body cams from the feds? Eyewitnesses who aren't emotionally invested? A single frame of that video analyzed by anyone besides the sympathetic cleric?

Crickets.

It's all allegation wrapped in pathos, with zero pushback beyond a tacked-on DHS denial that's dismissed like yesterday's takeout.

Speaking of DHS, their response gets the shortest shrift imaginable: Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin dropped a mic-drop fact-check: "There was no crowd control or pepper spray deployed in a Sam’s Club parking lot". Does the article dig into that? Nope.

No exploration of why agents might've been twitchy in a lot buzzing with helicopter chatter and honking horns (which, by the way, Veraza admits his crew was blasting as an "early warning system" for ICE raids. Sounds totally innocent, right?.

Instead, the twisted tale pivots straight to painting the feds as stormtroopers "liberally" gassing daycares and airports in Little Village, that plucky "Mexico of the Midwest" turning into a war zone because of a two-month deportation push that's nabbed over 3,200 folks.

Sensational? Hell yes. Paint cans and bricks flying at agent vans, smashed cop cars, "gunshots fired" at badges, and eight U.S. citizens pinched in the melee.

But the narrative flips the script: Protesters aren't just "residents" with whistles, agents aren't aggressors violating some fresh federal injunction on force.

Unanswered: Who chucked those projectiles?

Were those arrests for jaywalking or something spicier?

DHS is appealing that injunction, so, maybe there's a reason beyond cartoon-villainy.

Zoom out, and the whole piece drips with that classic progressive pity-party bias: Little Village as the noble underdog enclave, business signs warding off ICE like garlic against vampires, while the crackdown's painted as a heartless Trump-era fever dream redux (even though it's 2025—context matters, but not here).

No mention of why the raids are ramping up; undocumented overstays, cartel ties, or the 10 million-plus border encounters since Biden's watch? Nah, that'd humanize the "enforcers."

Instead, we get DeMateo's pearl-clutching zinger: "A family... all U.S. citizens attacked while shopping. We need a better way."

Stirring, if you ignore how it glosses over the "hostile crowd" that turned a routine op into a rock-throwing riot.

And the kicker? No follow-up on Veraza's claims, so the article shrugs and lets the family's version linger like tear gas residue.

In the end, this isn't a "tale" so much as a template for manufactured mayhem:.

Amplify the victim, minimize the villains' side, sprinkle in toddler tears, and voila! Viral fodder for the lefty Justplainpolitics crowd. If Yahoo wants credibility, next time interview the agents, not just the accusers. Until then, this is less "news" and more "narrative", and a toddler deserves better than being a prop in it.
 
zymurgy said:
allowing emotions to override facts and commons sense is childish

fuck off dipshit. Matt DeMateo is a known piece of shit that supports sanctuary city policy.
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Your emotions must all be bad emotions

Like hate and fear

I guess you never truely experience compassion or quilt for the harm you caused some

Your emotions should not be used to determine anything

You are an incomplete person who hates others in an attempt to soothe the fear deep inside your core

That self hate that tells you that no one finds you worthy of respect and love


You are broken


Or you are a disinformation bot hole


I bet it’s the or

Non human
 
pushing charity on to a government entity is stupid. Evince is stupid. arguing with stupid people itself is stupid

the end.
 
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