ICE kills man who dragged officer with car, authorities say

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot aman who officials said tried to evade arrest Friday ina Chicago suburb by driving his car at officers and dragging one of them.

- By REBECCA SANTANA AND CHRISTINE FERNANDO

INVESTIGATORS collect evidence after the fatal shooting Friday in Franklin Park, a suburb of Chicago.

The shooting just outside the city follows days of threats by the Trump administration to surge immigration enforcement in the nation’s third-largest city and less than a week into an operation labeled “Midway Blitz” by federal officials targeting the so-called sanctuary policies in Chicago and Illinois.

The Department of Homeland Security said in a news release that the officer was trying to arrest a man who had a history of reckless driving, but he refused officers’ orders and instead drove his car at them. An ICE officer who was hit and dragged by the car felt his life was threatened and opened fire, the department said.