CHICAGO (WGN) — An employee of Nexstar's WGN-TV was detained by two Border Patrol officers and later released after federal agents swarmed a busy intersection in Chicago Friday Morning.

WGN is not naming the employee, who works in the station's creative services department, as station policy requires blurring faces and not identifying those who have not been charged with a crime.

Witnesses on site who captured the incident on video spoke to WGN, a local news station owned by Nexstar Media, about the moments leading up to the staffer's detainment.

"I heard yelling and screaming and honking. I ran downstairs to see what was going on. It looked like Border Patrol agents in a minivan had slammed some lady to the ground. And so, I ran up to her and asked her for her name. She said she was a

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