Federal Agent Draws Weapon on Pregnant Woman, Incident Captured in Viral Video

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A pregnant woman from Illinois, who became the focal point of a viral video, has spoken out about the terrifying moment when a federal agent aimed a gun at her. Lesly Guevara recounted the harrowing experience, believing she was facing her final moments.

“I thought to myself, ‘This is it. This is where I pretty much die,'” Guevara shared with “Prime” during an interview on Saturday.

The incident, captured on video earlier this month in Berwyn, a suburb of Chicago, unfolded as Guevara was driving with her fiancé and their 10-month-old son to pick up groceries. While on the road, she noticed two men running and shortly after, a Jeep attempted to block her vehicle. In response, she said she repeatedly honked her horn to urge the driver to move.

Amid the chaotic scene, Guevara assumed that several individuals who appeared to be Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers had arrived. She continued honking, trying to alert others nearby. Guevara described how one officer, seen in the video, ran across the street towards her, accusing her of “impeding” while pointing a gun at her.

In the video, Guevara can be heard confronting the officer, shouting, “You gonna shoot a pregnant woman? Do you feel good about yourself?”

The officer lowers his gun as the woman pulls away, in the video.

Guevara said she did nothing wrong. She said she was driving slowly and could not proceed because the agents were “blocking the road.”

“I was driving slow, I wasn’t even going fast,” she said when asked if the authorities could have perceived her as a threat.

The Department of Homeland Security disagrees.

“The user’s video clearly shows she is aggressively barreling toward law enforcement while speeding and honking her horn a clearly threatening and aggressive act toward law enforcement,” a DHS spokesperson countered in a statement to Newsweek.

Confrontation could have ended badly, Chicago Ald. Lopez says

Chicago Ald. Raymond Lopez said the situation could have ended badly. He said he understands why the woman is upset but adds Guevara put herself and her family in danger by speeding through the scene.

“Law enforcement is trained to believe that if you’re being boxed in, your life is in danger. If individuals are following you through the neighborhoods at high speeds, your life is in danger,” he told “ Prime.”

Lopez said he assigns the most blame to Democratic politicians who amp up the emotions of people who oppose the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

“What we just witnessed is what happens when our politicians escalate the rhetoric and ratchet up the pressure in our neighborhoods to have people feel that it is their job to try to impede law enforcement,” he said.

Lopez has supported the Chicago surge of federal agents to round up undocumented individuals who pose a public safety risk. He said he hopes the president will consider some sort of “pathway toward citizenship” for millions of migrants who have been in the U.S. for several years without breaking the law.