A federal immigration agent shoved a man to the ground for filming him outside a gas station and got

A federal immigration agent shoved a man to the ground for filming him outside a gas station and got a year of probation. 🚨 CBS News Chicago reports that the man he attacked, attorney Robert Held, is now filing a civil lawsuit against that agent. Agent Adam Saracco knocked Held down outside a Brookfield gas station in December and admitted he wanted to grab Held’s phone and delete the video. 📱 Saracco pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery and was sentenced in August to one year of court supervision. Held says that should have been a felony. Recording someone on a public sidewalk is protected by the First Amendment, and shoving a person to the ground meets Illinois’ felony battery threshold, especially against someone over 60. ⚖️ This wasn’t Held’s first run-in with federal agents. Last October, he spent around eight hours detained outside the Broadview ICE facility during a protest, but was never charged with anything. An agent gets probation for assaulting someone in broad daylight, while a lawyer who filmed him gets held for hours with no charges. 🚨 That imbalance is why people keep showing up outside facilities like Broadview with their phones out, because a camera might be the only thing keeping an agent accountable. It takes real courage to keep filming when the agent in front of you can knock you down and barely face consequences. 📹 Robert Held is taking the fight into civil court, filing suit outside the same facility where agents like Saracco work every day. Federal agents don’t get to decide who’s allowed to watch them, and this lawsuit is a reminder that somebody’s keeping score. 🇺🇸 I’m Brian Manning. If you need help with an asylum case, send me the word “CONSULT” in a direct message.