According to Josh Thomas, a neighbor who recorded the video, they arrested her for "obstruction" while she said "I didn't obstruct" and told them she worked for a local tv station. Didn't seem to matter, as she was brutally thrown to the ground anyway and cuffed.
A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.
Debbie Brockman, who has worked as a producer for WGN since 2011, according to her LinkedIn profile, was taken to the ground face down on Foster Avenue and handcuffed while stopped cars honked and onlookers shouted epithets such as “fascists” at the two federal agents detaining her.
The woman identified herself as working at WGN and asked an onlooker taking