Estaban Rodriguez and his wife woke up around 5 am on Friday, comparing a “explosion” with a sound.
Rodriguez, a candidate for Sisro’s town president, said he jumped out of bed, initially believing that someone broke into his house, where his 2 -year -old daughter and dog were also sleeping. He said that he hurried down to carry his gun, and saw that his front window was shattered by appearing as a big rock.
He said, “My heart was running at a distance of one million miles per hour, and the moment the sound was, I knew that it had to do something with politics,” he said.
Rodriguez said that he came to know a few hours later that four windows were also broken in his campaign office.
Sisroe allegedly attacked a few days before the initial polling for the municipal elections on 25 February, where the city’s policies have become a controversial issue to protect the residents of the unspent between the immigration of President Donald Trump in the Chicago region.
Rodriguez Larry is running for the city president against Dominic, who has taken over for almost 20 years. Rodriguez and his colleagues launched a campaign on government transparency and established the “Sanctuary City” security in Sicro, while the Dominic team has highlighted new parks for families under their leadership such as the city’s “development” and “prosperity”. .
The Sicro police are investigating the incident “completely” and will treat it like any other crime, “spokesperson Ray Hanania told the Tribune. There was no injury.
A monitoring footage from Rodriguez’s house shows a man wearing a black jacket with a hood, black pants and white sneakers and at 5:09 pm, he again runs across the road, bouncing the rock on the window. Rodriguez said that he does not have a security camera in his campaign office.
Rodriguez said, “How the sicro operates without accusing someone or indicating a finger.” “It comes out of intimidation, intimidation strategy and separate people who are not with the local government or not. For those who declare candidature or move steps, there are some consequences that occur. ,
He said that he hoped that the police department would use its “complete resources” to investigate barbarity.
Dominic’s Sicro Voters Alliance, however, questioned the validity of Rodriguez’s account in a statement. The group said that this could be a “political stunt” to “draw attention and lighten the controversy” by their campaign. The coalition stated that it was suspected that the alleged criminal did not make much effort to cover his face or “avoid detection” in surveillance footage.
“This is not uncommon for desperate candidates to attract attention to themselves,” the statement said.
Rodriguez said that he had faced other forms of intimidating throughout his run, such as harassment and doxing on social media. He said that local authorities do not like “negative press” from their candidature, including an up-ed published in the tribune on the protection of Sicro-or its shortage for the immigrants.
He argues in this piece that Sicero, where the population is mostly Latin and includes tens of thousands of unspecified migrants, should become a “sanctuary city” as immigration enforcement under Trump.
He blames the lack of security on dominic, saying that his “anti -immigrant stand … has ensured that Sicro remains a place where immigrants lack original security, which they need to need Is.” He said on Friday that the current policy of the city is “a silly word that is nothing.”
Town spokesperson Hanania, however, stated in a letter to the editor earlier this month that the city has taken a “strong stand” to protect the rights of unwarded residents through the “safe space resolution” passed in 2008. He said that the city said that ‘consider the situation of citizenship while providing T services, and that the police department does not implement the federal immigration laws.
“The city of Sicro continuously makes efforts to ensure the good of all the residents,” he said. “Sicro serves as a safe place for all residents regardless of citizenship or residence status.”