A CBS News Chicago reporter and photographer were attacked Monday afternoon while preparing for a live report near the Adler Planetarium, prompting a police chase that ended with three suspects in custody, according to the station and Chicago police.
The confrontation occurred around 4:25 p.m. in the 900 block of East Solidarity Drive, on the city’s Museum Campus. According to CBS News Chicago, two men in a white truck rushed at the reporter and photographer as they prepared to go on the air during the station’s 4 p.m. newscast, shouting racial slurs targeted at one of the journalists.
The men ordered a dog to attack the crew, but it did not. One of the suspects then smashed the photographer’s camera while the other smashed the windshield of the news truck. The reporter and photographer were not injured, and CBS News Chicago has learned that police later arrested three people in Brighton Park following a pursuit that, according to Fox News, also involved a gun being pointed at another person.
Chicago police offered additional detail in a statement to Fox News Digital, saying two male victims standing on the sidewalk were approached by multiple unknown male offenders who exited a white truck. One of the offenders directed a dog to attack a 54-year-old male victim while yelling slurs. When the dog did not attack, the male offender became irate and damaged the victim’s property by throwing it on the ground. All the offenders then re-entered the white truck and fled the scene in an unknown direction. Police said there were no injuries reported.
A CBS spokesperson said in a statement that the network was “shocked and horrified by this crime” and grateful that its journalists were safe.
The investigation remains ongoing, and the network said its earlier report on the incident was developing.
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