When the Body Cameras Caught the Chase
Body camera footage from an October 2025 Chicago incident contradicts the Department of Homeland Security's account: Border Patrol agents continued a high-speed pursuit against direct supervisor orders to end it, blew a tire, crashed, and then deployed tear gas in the surrounding neighborhood.
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Body camera footage of an October 2025 incident in Chicago’s East Side neighborhood shows three named Border Patrol agents continuing an eighteen-minute high-speed vehicle pursuit after their supervisor ordered them to call it off. The chase ended when the agents’ own vehicle blew a tire and crashed. The agents then deployed tear gas in the surrounding residential neighborhood.
The Department of Homeland Security’s official account had described the crash as the result of agents intentionally striking the fleeing vehicle to stop it. The footage reveals neither the deliberate strike nor the intentional choice, but instead a tire failure following a chase that should have ended several minutes earlier.
Three agents are named in the reviews. Whether the gap between the official account and the visual record will produce any consequence for those agents is, as of this writing, unresolved.