A Worcester School Committee candidate accused of shoving police officers and interfering with federal immigration agents during a chaotic showdown has been released on personal recognizance.

Worcester Judge Janet McGuiggan entered not guilty pleas on behalf of 39-year-old city resident Ashley Spring, one of the two individuals arrested in Thursday’s altercation in a residential neighborhood.

Authorities, describing the incident as “unruly,” charged Spring with four counts of assault and battery on a police officer, interference with a police officer, disorderly conduct, and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.

Spring is due back in court on June 23, according to the Worcester County District Attorney’s Office.

More than two dozen residents gathered on Eureka Street after the presence of federal agents in the neighborhood sparked anger Thursday morning. City police were not initially on the scene but responded at about 11:13 a.m. after receiving a report of a “federal agent” being  “surrounded by a large group of about twenty-five people.”

Authorities arrested Spring and a juvenile female who witnesses have said is the daughter of a woman detained in the action, sparking fierce backlash from immigration advocates.

Worcester Police, in a statement posted on social media Thursday evening, accused Spring of “pushing multiple officers as they attempted to arrest the juvenile.” The School Committee candidate also allegedly “threw an unknown liquid substance” on the officers.

In one of the many videos that have surfaced on social media since the altercation, Spring is seen talking about the incident while handcuffed.

“The community gathered,” Spring said, per the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. “We found out that (ICE) didn’t have a warrant. They didn’t have not just a judicial warrant. They didn’t have a warrant at all. They wouldn’t present it.

“The community decided that these women were free to go,” she added, “and the women decided to go and exercise their right to leave. At that point, the police continued to try to brutalize them, to rip the baby out of the mother’s arms … and the community tried to intervene and help them.”

Worcester Police, in its statement on Thursday, highlighted that federal agents had arrested an older woman and placed her into a van, but “several people” put their hands on the agents and city officers as they tried “to keep the vehicle and the arrestee from leaving.”

Police added: “As the vehicle went to pull away, a juvenile female had a newborn baby in her arms and was standing in front of the car with the newborn.” Police told her that she was “endangering the child and that she needed to move.”

The juvenile eventually complied and was charged with reckless endangerment of a child, disturbing the peace, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. The infant was not injured, according to police.

Mayor Joseph M. Petty filed an order with the city clerk on Friday requesting the city manager and police chief “create a written policy on how we interact with ICE as a City.”

In a statement, the mayor said officials were not notified of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s presence in the city on Thursday until police were called to the scene. He added that there is no information on the identity and whereabouts of the woman detained.

“Local government cannot abandon its residents the way that the federal administration has turned its back on being known as the land of opportunity,” Petty said. “While the City of Worcester cannot intervene in federal jurisdiction, I hope that we can establish a protocol so that we can respond without further harming the people in our community.”

City Council Vice Chairman Khrystian E. King also requests that the city manager provide a “comprehensive report outlining the scope, scale and measure of the city’s response to the ICE operation” to help “combat misinformation.”

“Although the city of Worcester has not declared itself a sanctuary city due to concerns about federal funding,” King said in a statement posted on social media, “the city of Worcester remains steadfast in its commitment to being a welcoming place for immigrants.”