CBS Chicago reporter, photographer attacked by 2 men near Adler Planetarium

A scary concern for a CBS News Chicago newsman and lensman who were attacked adjacent the Adler Planetarium during a sprout connected Monday afternoon. 

The incidental happened conscionable earlier 4:30 p.m. connected the 900 artifact of East Solidarity Drive.

As our newsman and lensman were preparing to spell connected the aerial during the 4 p.m. newscast, 2 men successful a achromatic motortruck rushed astatine them portion shouting radical slurs targeted astatine 1 of our journalists.

One of the men past smashed our photographer's camera portion the different smashed the windshield of our quality truck. They besides ordered a canine to attack, but it did not, Chicago constabulary said.

Fortunately, the newsman and lensman got distant unharmed.

CBS News Chicago has learned that constabulary arrested 3 radical successful Brighton Park aft a constabulary pursuit. That incidental progressive a weapon being pointed astatine idiosyncratic else.

A CBS spokesperson said successful a statement, "We are shocked and horrified by this transgression and we are grateful that our journalists are safe."

The probe into the incidental is ongoing.

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