An activist and attorney pushed Cook County prosecutors on Tuesday to file a felony charge against the federal immigration agent he says attacked him at a gas station late last year in suburban Chicago.
Robert Held, 68, told reporters he followed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Adam Saracco from the ICE facility in suburban Broadview on Dec. 27, then filmed as Saracco stopped for gas in Brookfield. Held said Saracco eventually started walking toward him and pushed him to the ground.
Saracco appeared in court in Maywood Tuesday for a status hearing in the misdemeanor battery case stemming from the incident. Held told reporters he now wants the Cook County state’s attorney’s office to upgrade the charge to a felony…