🔗 Share this article Windy City Television Reporter's Detainment in Immigration Operation Called 'Disturbing and Horrifying', Lawyers Assert Legal representatives representing a producer from the city of Chicago's WGN television station who was briefly held by federal agents last week characterize the event as "something that should concern and horrify each individual in this nation". Details of the Arrest The journalist, a US citizen and station staff member, was taken into custody on the weekend by federal agents during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in Chicago's Lincoln Square neighborhood. Videos from the scene depict the producer being forced to the ground by two agents before she is restrained and put in a van. At the moment, a government spokesperson claimed that the individual "hurled items at border patrol's car" and was "placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer". Later on Friday, the television station announced that their employee had been released from federal custody and that no accusations had been pressed against her. Legal Team's Reaction In a statement issued by lawyers representing Brockman on Tuesday, her representatives challenged the official version. They stated they "strongly refute any allegation that she assaulted anyone" and that "Brockman was the one who was physically attacked by federal agents on her way to work" on 10 October. Her attorneys explain that at the time of the arrest, the journalist was "not performing in any official role as an staff member for WGN" but that she was just "heading to the transit point as part of her daily travel when she was confronted by federal officers. "The individual, who is a American citizen born in this country, was forcibly held on Foster Avenue," the statement adds. "As this occurred, bystanders on the street began filming the incident and asked Ms Brockman her name." The statement says that she informed the onlookers 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 arriving at work that day", her lawyers said. Consequences and Legal Action Based on her lawyers, Brockman was held in government detention for about several hours before being freed. "She has not been charged with any crimes and she intends to pursue all legal avenues open to her to vindicate her entitlements and ensure government accountability for their actions," the statement notes. "One attorney, a legal representative, commented in the release: "When armed, covered, federal agents are snatching US citizens off the street as they walk to work and throwing them in non-descript cars, you can only imagine what these officers must be prepared to do to our immigrant neighbors and people who choose to protest against them." "The journalist was taken to the ground, struck, restrained, and her pants were pulled down revealing her bare buttocks," the lawyer stated. "No one should be treated like that in this metropolis, in this nation or any other place in the world." ICE, the Department of Homeland Security, and the border agency did not immediately respond to inquiries from the media.