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In what Arizona’s attorney general slammed as an “unacceptable and outrageous” act of “unchecked aggression,” a federal immigration officer fired pepper spray toward recently sworn-in Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva during a Friday raid on a Tucson restaurant.

Grijalva (D-Ariz.) wrote on social media that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers “just conducted a raid by Taco Giro in Tucson — a small mom-and-pop restaurant that has served our community for years.”

“When I presented myself as a member of Congress asking for more information, I was pushed aside and pepper sprayed,” she added.

Grijalva said in a video uploaded to the post that she was “sprayed in the face by a very aggressive agent, pushed around by others, when I literally was not being aggressive, I was asking for clarification, which is my right as a member of Congress.”

The video shows Grijalva among a group of protesters who verbally confronted federal agents over the raid. Following an order to........

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