CHICAGO — At least five people are facing federal charges related to weekend protests outside the ICE processing center in west suburban Broadview.

The brief criminal complaints allege that the people facing charges resisted arrest, threatened and assaulted officers from a number of federal law enforcement agencies who were trying to push back crowds from the facility.

The charges stem from Friday and Saturday protests outside ICE’s Broadview facility, where federal agents fired pepper balls and rubber bullets, threw flash grenades and sprayed tear gas at protesters.

Eleven people were detained during Saturday night’s protest, including a journalist. The mayor of Broadview has meanwhile accused the U.S. Department of Homeland Security of “making war” in the suburb. In a statement Monday

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