Three Men Arrested After Racial Attack on CBS Crew

Three men are in custody after allegedly attacking a CBS News Chicago crew with racial slurs and a dog, then damaging their equipment near the Adler Planetarium on Monday afternoon. The journalists were not physically injured.

The incident occurred around 4:25 p.m. on June 29, as the reporter and photographer were preparing for a live broadcast on East Solidarity Drive. According to police and witness accounts, a white tow truck parked in front of the news van. A man exited the vehicle with a dog and directed the animal to attack the crew while shouting racial slurs at one of the journalists, a 54-year-old man. Two other men were also in the truck.

When the dog did not attack, police said one of the suspects became angry and threw the photographer's camera to the ground, destroying it. Another suspect then used a traffic cone to smash the windshield of the CBS news truck. The three men then fled the scene in the truck.

The situation escalated approximately 20 minutes later when Chicago police received reports that occupants of the same tow truck were pointing a gun at people on a sidewalk in the Brighton Park neighborhood. Officers located the vehicle, which sped away before...