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Anaís Robles didn’t expect to get teargassed. The co-owner of Colibrí Cafe, the coffee shop that opened this year in Chicago’s East Side neighborhood, saw commotion outside in mid October and ran to see what happened.
Robles saw federal agents donning masks and decided to step back, she was half a block away when the tear gas canisters hit. “People were just in the streets, so to clear out the area, they teargas all of us, and like, multiple teargas [cannisters],” she said.
