🔗 Share this article Windy City TV Journalist's Arrest in ICE Operation Described as 'Alarming and Horrifying', Lawyers Assert Legal representatives acting for a journalist from Chicago's local TV network who was temporarily detained by federal agents last week describe the event as "something that should concern and horrify each individual in this nation". Details of the Arrest The journalist, a American national and station staff member, was arrested on Friday by federal agents during an ICE action in Chicago's Lincoln Square neighborhood. Footage from the scene depict the producer being pushed down by two agents before she is restrained and put in a van. At the moment, a homeland security official stated that the individual "hurled items at an official vehicle" and was "placed under arrest for attacking an officer". Subsequently that day, WGN confirmed that Brockman had been released from federal custody and that no charges had been pressed against her. Legal Team's Response In a news release issued by attorneys acting for the journalist on earlier this week, her representatives challenged the official version. They stated they "strongly refute any allegation that she attacked anyone" and that "She was the one who was violently assaulted by officers on her way to work" on the date in question. Her lawyers explain that at the moment of the arrest, the journalist was "not performing in any official role as an staff member for the station" but that she was just "heading to the transit point as part of her daily travel when she was attacked by Border Patrol agents. "Brockman, who is a American citizen native to the US, was violently detained on Foster Avenue," the statement adds. "As this occurred, bystanders on the street began recording the incident and inquired her her name." The release indicates that she told the bystanders her name and that she was employed at the station, in the hopes that "a person would notify her workplace so coworkers would know that she would not be coming at work that day", her attorneys stated. Consequences and Next Steps According to her legal team, Brockman was kept in federal custody for about several hours before being freed. "The individual has not been accused with any offenses and she intends to explore all legal avenues open to her to vindicate her entitlements and hold the federal authorities accountable for their conduct," the statement notes. "Brad Thomson, one of her attorneys, commented in the statement: "When equipped, masked, federal agents are taking US citizens off the street as they walk to work and placing them in non-descript cars, you can only conceive what these officers must be willing to do to our immigrant neighbors and individuals who dare to speak out against them." "Ms Brockman was forced down, struck, restrained, and her trousers were lowered revealing her bare buttocks," the lawyer stated. "Not anyone should be handled like that in this metropolis, in this nation or anywhere else in the globe." Immigration authorities, the Department of Homeland Security, and the border agency did not provide a prompt reply to inquiries from the media.