BROADVIEW — Police in west suburban Broadview are investigating the assault of a local journalist by federal immigration authorities.

CBS Chicago Reporter Asal Rezaei said she was at the ICE processing facility in suburban Broadview Sunday morning to report on the scene and was preparing to leave since there were no protesters.

That’s when a masked ICE agent inside the fencing shot a pepper ball from about 50 feet away, hitting Rezai’s truck, which had its driver’s side window down, “causing the chemical agents to engulf the inside,” CBS Chicago reported.

“An ICE agent took a direct shot at my car today. Absolutely unprovoked,” Rezaei said on social media. “My window was open and chemicals went all over my face. Been puking for two hours.”

Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills said in a

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