CHICAGO — A federal judge ruled Thursday that federal agents can’t use tear gas, pepper spray and other weapons against journalists and peaceful protesters after Block Club Chicago and others sued the federal government over its actions against journalists outside the Broadview ICE detention facility.

The temporary ruling comes after four Block Club journalists were indiscriminately hit by pepper-spray bullets and tear-gassed by federal agents; an independent journalist was arrested; and a TV reporter’s vehicle was hit with a pepper ball, covering her face in chemicals — all as they covered protests outside the suburban Broadview facility.

The ruling comes after the Trump administration deployed scores of federal agents to Chicago to carry out a “blitz” of immigration enforcement, then m

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