My trash refuses to end deleting my files, somebody can help me?

As my hard disk is starting to get full, I tried some days ago to delete some files from the trash but it never worked. The window keeps saying that it's being deleted but never ends. I can't even restart my mac because the window is open and I can't close the app...

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Run EtreCheck and publish report here
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