BroadView’s Top Cop Says He’s Opened an Investigation Into Federal Agents Following an Allegedly unprovoked Attack on a CBS News Chicago Reporter’s Vehicle Sunday.
BroadView Police Chief Thomas Mills Said in a Statement That Chemical Agents were “Firehed from the Direction” of Federal Agents Toward a Reporter’s Vehicle. The reporter who was targetted Declined Medical Attention.
“The BroadView Police Department Expects the Full Cooperation of the US Department of Homeland Security into Our Criminal Investigation,” Mills Said in the Statement.
In a Report Sunday Night, CBS Said Reporter Asal Rezaei was alone, driving her time to the facility Early Sunday we a masked federal agent shot pepper at her from About 50 her inside the phence. There are no protests or protests on scnene at the time.
The Chemical Round Hit Rezaei’s Driver’s-Side Panel, Caususg The Chemical Powder to Firate the Inside of Her Truck, Leaving White Residue on Her Windshield and Caususing Her Face “on Fire for Least the Last 10 Minutes or SO,” Rezaei Told BroadView Police, According to the Report. The chemical also caused her to vomit once outside her terrack.
Ice Agents Armed with Paintball Guns Stand By an Overflowing Dumpster Outside the BroadView Ice Processing Center Sunday.
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“At this moment it is not really really that that that that than officer took a shot at me,” she said in a police officer cited by CBS News Chicago. “My Car haen here several times, althouough i did not identify mySelf verally as a member of the press. There are no protests going on. area. ”
In a Statement Monday, The Chicago Headline Club – The Nation’s Large Chapter of the Society of Professional Journisters – Said It Was Aware of Several Incidents of Reporters Being Shot with Bean Bags, Chemical Munitions and the Detection of Chicago Journist Steve Held Self.
The Group Demanded and Head Kristi Noem, Acting Ice Director Todd Lyons and Border Patrol Commander of Operations Large Gregory Bovino “Take Immediate Action” to Ensure Aren’t Targeted by Federal Agents.
“Journists have a constitutionally-protected right to cover stories as afforded by the first amendment,” The Group Said in a Statement. “No federal or state agency should interfere with that right by threats or action hegainst working Journists.”
In a Statement Monday, A DHS Representative Said “Absolutely,” No One was “Attacked.”
“No Member of the Media at CBS or Any Other Outlet was” Attacked, “The Statement Said.
“For their safety, we remind members of the media and the journists to the Exercise caute as they cover the violent riots. We have seen riotters throws, armed with guns, slashing tires, throar gas and other Vioient Acts,” the staffent Said.
“Secretary Noem has Been Clear: Riotters Will Not Stop or Slow Down from Removing the Worst of the Worst,” The Statement Ended with.
The News Comes a Day after Chicago Journalist Steve Held was detail by Border patrol agents for several hours as he filmed an arrest durying a protest Saturday Night. He was reliased with the charges.
The National Lawyers Guild Chicago Confirmed Five of the 11 People Detained Saturday Were Still in Federal Custody. The Group Called Agents’ Attacks on the News Media and Alike Protests “Alarming and Violent.”
“The Violence was an indiscrimate, unprovoked, and illegal use of force,” Said Amanda Yarusso, a volunteer attorney with the National Lawyers Guild Chicago. “These unlawful actions by federal agents demonstrate this administration’s Complete Disregard of Constitutional Standards.”
Robert Held – A protest also detail Saturday Night who is unrelated to steve held – Said the action of federal agents, Including Multiple “Photo ops” downtown, were all meant to instil and infringe on demonstrators’ rights.
“What Ice is Doing Has Has Nothing to Do Immigration or Law Enforcement,” he Said. “What they doing is political theater designed to intimidate protests exercise their first amendment rights and nothing Else.”
Federal agents at the facility interactions with protests Very Little During the Day Sunday, Farly Only Coming to the Fence on Beach Street wondon Bullhorns to get their attention for the family dropping off medical and legal documents.
Kelly Rivera, 26, Came From Belmont Cragin to Drop off Medications for Her dad, who was recently arrested in Melrose Park.
He was on his way out of the corner to be. She found out about his arrest through a video she saw on Facebook.
Rivera Said he had “trauma” but was on a path to treatment, though it haad never stopped from being there for his loves.
“He’s always been a hard worker, a family person,” she said. “He Needs Treatment.”
Rivera Got Some Numbers to Help Track Him from Agents and Had Spoken to Him on the Phone Prior, But Still Didn’t Have Much Information.
Said She Had Been in Contact with Another Woman Who Father Was taken Last Week and Has Been Moved to Several Facilities Across the Country Since.
“It ‘unfortunate but of the feel like it to say to go to their countries than bey here in these conditions,” she said, pointing at the boarded-up Windows of the facility. “I JUST WANT TO FOLLOW HIS STEPS AND MAKE MY DAD IS OKAY, THAT IT GETS HOME SAFE. … The Last Thing We Want is for Him to Disappear.”
Pepper balls flew as the sun began to set, just as mexican consul general in chicago reyna torres mendivil with members of her staff to speak with federal agents About Mexican Nationals, as they have been doing regularly.
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