Last October, we reported that an employee at Chicago’s WGN TV station was temporarily detained during a U.S. Customs and Border Protection operation in Chicago’s Lincoln Square neighborhood, resulting in video footage going viral that showed the employee being forced to the ground by two agents, whom she can be heard identifying herself to before telling them where she works, which did not stop the agents from continuing to handle her roughly, to the point where it appeared that they had pulled the woman’s pants down.
Well, now, that employee is suing the agency for $10 million.
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Debbie Brockman, who no longer works for the network, but served in its creative services department at the time of her detention, filed administrative complaints against the federal agency under the Federal Tort Claims Act, which the Times described as “a necessary legal step on the way to possibly filing a lawsuit against the federal government.”
Brockman alleges in her filing that as a result of her violent arrest, she suffered headaches, pain, tenderness, contusions, anxiety and nausea among other physical and emotional injuries, and she is accusing the agents involved of assault and battery, false imprisonment, false arrest, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
“It’s horrific that a government agency supposedly established to keep America safe is terrorizing communities, killing people, and violently targeting individuals they assume are not citizens,” Brockman said in a news release Tuesday. “We are not safe with these armed, masked agents lurking in our neighborhoods showing little to no regard towards the lives of the people who live here.”
As previously reported, at the time of the arrest, the Department of Homeland Security did its usual song and dance of claiming everything that happened was the victim’s fault while making the agents out to be victims themselves. Former DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin — who has since been dismissed from her role, just like a myriad of Trump administration officials involved in immigration enforcement, who just can’t seem to hold on to their jobs — claimed Brockman “threw objects at border patrol’s car, and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer,” which was a decidedly odd claim to make, considering Brockman was released with no charges whatsoever.
Source: Former WGN Employee Files $10M Claim Against Border Protection Over Violent Chicago Arrest
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