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Probe Launched After Local Journalist Was Shot by a Pepper Ball by Immigration Agents

HeadlineOct 01, 2025

The Trump administration is escalating its attacks on journalists documenting mass immigration raids nationwide. In Chicago, an investigation was launched after a local journalist was assaulted by federal immigration agents while covering protests outside an ICE jail in Broadview Sunday. A masked agent shot a pepper ball at CBS Chicago reporter Asal Rezaei. She described the attack on social media, saying, “An ICE agent took a direct shot at my car today. Absolutely unprovoked. My window was open and chemicals went all over my face. Been puking for two hours.”

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