>> Chicago police officers have faced months of intense criticism alleging they violated city law by helping federal immigration agents as they carried out a series of aggressive reads.

Dozens of Chicagoans are expected to ask the city's police oversight board to strengthen that ban as concerns over the conduct of federal agents reach a fever pitch following the fatal shooting of a woman by an ICE officer in Minneapolis yesterday or Heather.

Sharon joins us now live from Tilson where the community Commission for Public Safety Accountability is set to meet tonight.

Heather, what prompted this unusual public hearing?

>> Well, for more than 6 months, Chicago police officers who faced intense criticism that they have aided federal agents if they have carried out a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago.

But the effort to hold officers accountable for any misconduct or even to simply determine whether there was a violation of city ordinance ran into a brick wall when nobody at the city could determine which agency was responsible for making that determination or recommending discipline for officers.

So thousands of Chicagoans signed a petition asking the police oversight board to hold tonight's hearing, which is set to get under way shortly.

>> Obviously, Heather, no doubt emotions will be running high at this meeting because it is the day after an ice agent or federal immigration agents, a shot and killed that 37 year-old woman in Minneapolis just yesterday in an incident that's very similar to what happened in Brighton Park in Chicago on October 4th.

How did the CPD respond to that shooting?

>> Well, Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling faced fierce criticism from all sides.

Federal officials accused him of improper least his command staff, I should say, of improperly stopping officers to responding to Border Patrol agents.

Call for help after they accused 31 year-old Marimar Martinez of using her car to ram their truck.

Now Martinez, who was shot 5 times was charged with federal criminally impeding those agents, although just a month ago, those charges were dropped.

And almost immediately, eyewitness testimony said that what federal agents said happened in Brighton Park was not accurate.

That is very similar to the situation today in Minneapolis where eyewitnesses have contradicted what federal agents said happened Renee Nicole.

Good disputed what the president vice president and homeland Security secretary have said.

There's no doubt that Chicagoans are concerned that federal agents will return this spring or sooner and carry out similar raids and they want additional protections for residents as they exercise what they say are their First Amendment rights to protest those actions.

And Heather briefly, you know, both Mayor Brandon Johnson, Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling.

They both defended officers conduct.

>> How do they respond to the widespread criticism of CPD during what the Trump administration has dubbed Operation Midway Blitz?

>> Well, both the mayor and the city's top cop said officers have followed the welcoming city ordinance and have done their best to navigating to navigate an increasingly tense situation.

However, both superintendents knowing and the mayor have said they're reviewing what has happened over the past couple of months.

It's not clear when any of the results of those reviews would be released publicly.

That is part of the reason for tonight's hearing to encourage that effort and to spur some change.

And Heather does the police oversight board.

They have the power to change the way CPD interacts with federal agents.

>> It's really not clear now the community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability does have the ability to set CPD policy.

However, it's not clear what they could do to interact to restrict the ability of federal agents to act in Chicago or encourage local law enforcement to take action against federal law enforcement.

As we've said, too often in recent years, it