A WGN video producer was handcuffed and taken into custody by federal agents on Friday morning while documenting the arrest of a Latino man, and one legal analyst warned the move defied a court order.
“WGN is aware of this situation, and we are actively gathering the facts related to it,” the company said in a statement, according to Block Club Chicago.
As Slate legal analyst Mark Joseph Stern posted on Bluesky, this defies a recent court order.
"It is hereby ORDERED that Defendants, their officers, agents, assigns and all other persons acting in concert with them (hereafter referred to as 'Federal Agents'), are temporarily EN/joined in this judicial district from: a. Dispersing, arresting, threatening to arrest, threatening or using physical force against any person who they know or reasonably should know is a journalist, unless defendants have probable cause to believe that the individual has committed a crime," the order read.
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