The Broadview Police Department has opened a criminal investigation after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent allegedly shot a pepper ball at a WBBM-Ch. 2 reporter’s truck Sunday morning outside the agency’s holding facility, which has been at the center of heated protests from concerned citizens and politicians .

It happened the same day an independent journalist was released after being detained by federal immigration agents while covering a protest outside the facility Saturday evening.

Broadview police Chief Thomas Mills said in a statement that the Police Department “expects the full cooperation of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security into our criminal investigation.”

The CBS reporter, Asal Rezaei, posted on social media shortly after the pepper ball incident

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