{"id":840870,"date":"2026-06-03T06:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T06:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/840870\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T06:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T06:22:14","slug":"former-wgn-employee-debbie-brockman-detained-by-agents-in-lincoln-square-chicago-sues-federal-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/840870\/","title":{"rendered":"Former WGN employee Debbie Brockman, detained by agents in Lincoln Square, Chicago, sues federal government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; A former WGN employee is seeking damages after she was detained by federal agents in <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/wgn-tv-employee-detained-border-patrol-agents-lincoln-foster-avenues-square-chicago-video\/17980398\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an incident caught on video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Debbie Brockman filed a $10 million claim against the federal government.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/watch\/live\/11064984\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24\/7. Click here to watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">She says federal agents accosted her last October, when she still worked at WGN, during the Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s Chicago-area immigration operation &#8220;Midway Blitz.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A DHS spokesperson said Brockman threw something at the agents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">She disputes those claims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><strong class=\"vtkaO \">SEE ALSO | <\/strong><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/ice-chicago-news-debbie-brockman-wgn-employee-detained-federal-agents-lincoln-square-says-she-did-nothing-wrong\/18007191\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WGN employee detained by federal agents in Lincoln Square says she did nothing wrong<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; A former WGN employee is seeking damages after she was detained by federal agents in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":840871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[344340,960,106792,5462,265144,2398,5386,1818,141702,121074],"class_list":["post-840870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-344340","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-immigration","tag-chicago-news","tag-debbie-brockman","tag-department-of-homeland-security","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-midway-blitz","tag-operation-midway-blitz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116684741145961245","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}