Masked agent puts protester in chokehold at Broadview detention center, has to be pulled off by another agent
September 2025·Location: Broadview, IL
Country of origin: United States

At the Broadview detention center in Illinois, a masked agent put a protester in a chokehold and had to be pulled off by another agent. The woman was sprayed in the face with a chemical irritant, shot with projectiles, and violently pushed and shoved to the ground before the chokehold.
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