BROADVIEW – At least nine people were arrested amid a daylong standoff Friday at an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility in suburban Broadview that saw federal immigration officers bombard demonstrators with tear gas, flash bang grenades and pepper spray bullets.

ICE reported that nine people were arrested Friday at the protest for “throwing bottles, fireworks and rocks at law enforcement,” a spokesperson for ICE said in a statement to Block Club.

Block Club reporters and photographers on the scene did witness one firework and bottles thrown at officers by a small number of demonstrators after agents tear gassed and shot pepper balls at the crowd, including members of the media holding only cameras and notebooks.

The People’s Law Office, a civil rights firm repre

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