Her undignified arrest at an ICE protest shocked the nation…now she has revealed what she says really happened while demanding a massive PAYOUT
A Chicago woman who captured the world’s attention with her dramatic and embarrassing arrest by federal agents has aggressively challenged the government’s version of events and demanded millions for her trouble.
Deborah Brockman, a former WGN-TV producer, was thrown to the ground and detained by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers wearing masks in the Windy City’s Lincoln Square neighborhood on October 10.
On Tuesday, Brockman filed a Federal Tort Claims Act lawsuit, often a precursor to a lawsuit, against the U.S. government over the stunning incident that at one point left her rear end exposed.
A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson told the Daily Mail on Wednesday that Brockman threw objects at a Border Patrol car used by agents during an immigration enforcement operation.
Brockman reportedly accused the U.S. government of assault and battery, false imprisonment, false imprisonment, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. He is seeking compensation of $10 million.
Brockman’s dossier, seen by the Daily Mail, accused federal agents of knowing ‘severe emotional distress was a given’ when they detained him as he walked to a bus stop around 8.35am that day.
She allegedly suffered ‘headaches, pain, tenderness, bruises, scrapes and contusions’ [and] The claim added that he experienced nausea as a result.
‘He was arrested for assault on a federal law enforcement officer,’ DHS said.
Deborah Brockman, a senior producer for WGN-TV, was forced to the ground when mask-wearing CBP officers handcuffed her in the Chicago suburb of Lincoln Square last October.
The television producer was dramatically detained in the middle of a street in Chicago and at one point left with her rear end exposed.
Brockman’s attorney, Brad Thomson, alleged that federal agents “approached him, assaulted him, and violently threw him to the ground, beat him, and after exposing his buttocks, handcuffed him and threw him into a van.” Block Club Chicago.
He was detained for six hours and released without charge, his lawyer said.
‘The outrageous actions of the federal agents who attacked Ms. Brockman demonstrate that they believed they could terrorize our communities and remove our neighbors from the streets with impunity,’ he said in the press release.
DHS has stuck to its version of events first reported last October.
The agency said ‘several violent agitators’ had used their cars to block agents in an attempt to impede and attack federal officers moments earlier.
Officers then used their own vehicle to ‘attack the suspect’s vehicle and create an opening’; DHS said this was done ‘out of fear for public safety and law enforcement.’
That’s when Brockman threw the objects at the Border Patrol, according to the agency.
“This incident is not an isolated incident and reflects a growing and dangerous trend of illegal aliens violently resisting arrest and agitators and criminals ramming our law enforcement officers with cars,” DHS said.
A viral video showed Brockman lying on the ground and being handcuffed by mask-wearing CBP officers in the Lincoln Square neighborhood in October.
Last year, then-DHS deputy secretary Tricia McLaughlin in question He said Brockman was arrested ‘for throwing objects at law enforcement.’
McLaughlin, who left the Trump administration this February, also sent He said the incident ‘is not an isolated incident and reflects a growing and dangerous trend of illegal aliens violently resisting arrest and agitators and criminals crashing into our law enforcement officers.’
Those remarks were consistent with DHS’s statement to the Daily Mail on Wednesday.
Brockman is an American citizen, as the former government official stated.
Chicago attorney Josh Thomas filmed the moment Brockman was taken into custody.
He said he left his home when he saw masked agents trying to detain someone and saw Brockman being taken into custody.
“He’s lying on the ground in the street and they’re wrestling him, trying to get their hands behind his back,” Thomas, 36, said. Chicago Tribune last October.
He claimed that agents announced that Brockman was being detained for obstruction.
“I didn’t block it,” he replied, according to Thomas.
Thomas said about two dozen pedestrians stopped to yell at immigration agents, and nearby cars also stopped and honked their horns.
DHS told the Daily Mail that Brockman threw objects at Border Patrol agents and was arrested for ‘assault on federal law enforcement’ (file image)
“Ms. Brockman was forced to the ground, beaten, handcuffed, and her trousers were pulled down, exposing her bare buttocks,” said Thomson, her lawyer. Block Club Chicago In that case.
“No one in this city, in this country, or anywhere else in the world should be treated this way,” Thomson added.
In the video, Thomas can be seen approaching Brockman, whose glasses were crooked and sliding off his face as he introduced himself.
‘Debbie Brockman, I work for WGN. Let them know!’ he said in the footage.
He was laid off in February after working as a producer at the company since 2011.
