06/12/2025
BREAKING: Rep. Adelita Grijalva says Trump’s goons PEPPER-SPRAYED HER IN THE FACE and ignored her when she said she was a Congresswoman!
In a video posted to Twitter, the newly sworn-in Congresswoman from Arizona recounted her harrowing clash with ICE agents.
“We just came up on a community that was protecting their people. We had, I would say, maybe 40 ICE agents, most of them masked, in several vehicles, that the community had stopped right here, right in the middle of the street, because they were afraid that they were taking people without due process, without any kind of notice.”
“And so I was here, this is like the restaurant I come to literally once a week, and was sprayed in the face by a very aggressive agent, pushed around by others. When I literally was not being aggressive, I was asking for clarification, which is my right as a member of Congress. So once introduced myself, once I did, I assumed that it would be a little calmer, but there was literally only one person that was trying to speak to me in any kind of civil tone, and everyone else was being rude and disrespectful.”
“And I just can only imagine if they're going to treat me like that, how they're treating everybody else. So we saw it. We saw people directly sprayed, members of our press, everybody that was with me, my staff member, myself, two staff members, we have like remnants of whatever they sprayed on us.
Excuse me, it's bothering me. And I think that this is one of the biggest problems that we have in this community, is that we have Trump that has no regard for any due process, the rule of law, the constitution. They're literally disappearing people from the streets.”
“They arrested two people. We have no idea where they're going. And I want to thank Tucson Police Department for coming and taking care of the space, making sure that everyone was safe once ICE left.
And you can see that traffic is back to normal because of them. And so they were not the aggressors here. They arrived on the scene after ICE was already here and after there was a block in the street.
So I just want to make sure that that's really clear. I want to protect the people in this community, and that's why I showed up. I think it's important for me to have eyes on what's happening here and not just have it be stories to other people.”
It is beyond insane that Trump’s thugs are treating our citizens, let alone our FREAKING ELECTED OFFICIALS, like they are criminals to be abused and brutalized.
We are so lucky to have brave Democrats like Rep. Grijalva who aren’t afraid to put themselves on the line to protect their communities from Trump’s violence — and who aren’t afraid to speak out for justice.
