ICE goon is schooled by activist then charged with misdemeanor battery plus gets publicly exposed.
By Curt_Anderson February 9, 2026 4:24 pm Category: Crime
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The ICE goon messed with the wrong activist who turned out to be a lawyer. Besides getting a lesson in the law and constitutional rights, the ICE agent has new and unwelcome notoriety including 524,229 YouTube views and counting since yesterday.
An investigation by the police in Brookfield, Ill., backed an activist’s account of being assaulted by an off-duty federal agent as he was filming the agent putting gas in his car, according to a police report released on Friday.
The agent, Adam Saracco of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was charged last week with misdemeanor battery, a rare enforcement action by local authorities against a federal agent. The activist, Robert Held, had been protesting at the Broadview Processing Center, a detention facility near Brookfield where hundreds of immigrant detainees have been held. He and other activists have been recording ICE activities and agents at the urging of local elected leaders, including Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois.
Robert Held, a 68-year-old lawyer and Air Force veteran, told The New York Times last week that he had followed Mr. Saracco in late December after the agent left the Broadview facility, and an altercation occurred. Mr. Saracco, who according to the police report initially denied being a law enforcement agent, told police officers who were called to the scene that Held “began walking up to [Saracco's] vehicle” and recording him on his phone while he was pumping gas into his car.
Mr. Held has said he was standing on the sidewalk recording when Mr. Saracco approached him.
After reviewing camera footage and talking to witnesses, investigators determined that the encounter had occurred at the far corner of the parking lot “near the public sidewalk,” the report said, backing Mr. Held’s claim. Mr. Saracco did not dispute that he had initiated physical contact when he tried to take Mr. Held’s phone.
During the confrontation, Mr. Held fought to hold onto his phone, and the agent wrestled him to the ground, according to the report. After the fight, a bystander began filming as Mr. Held and Mr. Saracco continued to argue, with Mr. Saracco asking why he was being recorded and Mr. Held asserting that he was one of the federal agents who were engaged in violations of human rights.
“You’re following me,” Mr. Saracco yelled, according to the report. “You can’t just expect to follow people and not face consequences.”
My favorite part: "It is gross".
“It is gross that our officer is facing charges for responding to a direct threat against him and his safety. We stand firmly behind our officer,” said Tricia McLaughlin, the assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, in a written statement provided to the Landmark (see link) by Erin Bultje, ICE’s Midwest director of public affairs, on Jan. 27.
In the statement, McLaughlin called Saracco “an off-duty ICE law enforcement officer [who] was targeted and aggressively harassed by a known ICE agitator.”
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The ICE goon messed with the wrong activist who turned out to be a lawyer. Besides getting a lesson in the law and constitutional rights, the ICE agent has new and unwelcome notoriety including 524,229 YouTube views and counting since yesterday.
