A legal analyst has warned that the arrest of a Chicago TV producer by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents on Friday could have been a direct violation of a recent court order in the city.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed her arrest in a statement to Newsweek stating that she “was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer.” As did WGN though it mentioned Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) instead. WGN added no charges were filed were filed against Brockman.
Stern shared on Bluesky a screenshot of the temporary restraining order’s text, which reads: “It is hereby ORDERED that Defendants, their officers, agents, assigns and all other persons acting in concert with them (hereafter referred to as ‘Federal Agents’), are temporarily EN/joined in this judicial district from: a. Dispersing, arresting, threatening to arrest, threatening or using physical force against any person who they know or reasonably should know is a journalist, unless defendants have probable cause to believe that the individual has committed a crime.”
At time of writing, Newsweek has found no video evidence, released by the DHS or other sources, showing Brockman assaulting federal agents.
According to WGN, Brockman was released from federal custody at 3 p.m. on Friday, local time, and no charges were filed against her. As of 6 p.m. on Friday, the TV station said, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney in Chicago had confirmed no charges had been filed in Brockman’s case.
You violently arrested her for obstruction and throwing things at ICE vehicles, released video evidence that didn’t actually show any evidence, and then released her without actually charging her with anything.
So either she was intentionally targeted for being a journalist, and those agents should be charged with contempt or they just picked a random U.S. citizen to arrest on false claims.
I hope that the consequences land on the agents who arrested her, and they dime on whoever gave them the order in their chain of command to target her.
It’s an obvious misunderstanding in the heat of the moment— she was throwing objections at the car, and the agents missed the ions.
Words hurt the snowflakes’ feelings
Deborah Brockman, a US citizen, threw objects at border patrol’s car, and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer.
She has since been released, and no charges were filed against her.
Uh huh…
I know that when I throw things at law enforcement and end up getting arrested because of it, they always just let me go without charges later.
I fuckin’ hate Illinois nazis
I’m sorry, but the resemblance is uncanny
That bottom picture literally looks like John Candy and Dan Aykroyd from some movie.
What the fuck is border control doing in Chicago,anyway? Nowhere near the US fucking border.
Remind me again what country Chicago is on the border of?
I was going to say ICE has a (Congress mandated) rule of 100 mi from the border as their operating zone, but they are well over double that zone here. Disgusting.
Iirc, they consider any international airport to be a border point as well
Epstein - distractions. Focus folks. Get the head of the centipede, not wiggly legs, they’ll fall after.
What a joke. Does it give them permission to target non-journalists who have committed no crime?
Is it only a TV trope that you have to let someone go after 24 hrs unless you formally charge them?
It depends. Are you talking about somewhere with the rule of law? Or a dictatorship like the USA?
I don’t think so? I didn’t even know that was a trope Normally they just don’t forcibly handcuff people for no reason and place them under arrest (at least with a huge crowd watching and recording).
Typically what happens when police want to charge you with something, but they don’t have evidence, they’ll say we want you to come in and answer some questions, and it’s your right to refuse. Bc if they could actually force you to come in, they would just arrest you instead of asking.
I’m not sure how it works in cases where some random person apparently targeted you and called for your arrest without any sort of step 2 plan other than maybe hoping you just wouldn’t ask for a lawyer and refuse to talk?
If they held you until your lawyer arrived, even a mediocre lawyer wouldn’t say after 24 hours we can go, they would ask what you’re being charged with, and if the cops didn’t have anything they would say we’re leaving right now (which is probably what happened here).
I know when the feds raided that apartment building in Chicago they broke down doors, pulled people from their beds, and put at least one elderly man in handcuffs for absolutely no reason, and refused to let him contact a lawyer until they could figure out who he was.
That is even worse than charging somebody with “precrime.” Imagine some masked assholes breaks down your door, pulls you out of bed, puts you in cuffs, ignores your requests to contact lawyer, and tells you to chill the fuck out until they can figure out if you’re a threat.
Certainly starts to make the 2nd amendment make sense
