Two Illinois protesters are suing Benny Johnson for allegedly casting them as domestic terrorists after a protest at a Broadview ICE facility.
Kyle Frankovich and Maureen Foody filed the case against the conservative media personality and his company, the Washington Examiner reported.
The dispute traces to videos and social media posts Johnson produced after an Oct. 3 demonstration outside the Broadview ICE Processing Center in Broadview, Illinois.
Frankovich and Foody claim those posts falsely portrayed them as violent criminals and “domestic terrorists.” The suit says Johnson claimed he saw the pair engage in violence, commit crimes, and attack or assault law enforcement.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement operates the Broadview processing center. The protest took place outside that facility in October 2025.
Johnson’s videos and posts followed the demonstration. Frankovich and Foody say the coverage crossed the line from reporting into false claims about what they did on the ground.
The filing names Johnson and his company as defendants. It does not, in the initial account, lay out a detailed public response from either defendant.
No government charges against the two protesters appear in the available account. This is a civil suit brought by private plaintiffs over how a media figure described their conduct after the ICE facility protest.
The core allegation is straightforward. Frankovich and Foody say Johnson told his audience he witnessed violence, crimes, and assaults on officers by them.
They call that account false. They say the “domestic terrorists” label and the violent-criminal framing damaged them and rested on claims he could not support.
The Washington Examiner account does not reproduce the full wording of the challenged videos or posts. It also does not list a public filing date, the formal name of Johnson’s company, or the damages the plaintiffs seek.
What it does establish is the sequence. Protest on Oct. 3. Videos and social posts afterward. Then a lawsuit by the two Illinois protesters aimed at Johnson and his firm.
Broadview sits in Illinois, and the plaintiffs are identified as Illinois protesters tied to that demonstration. The facility they targeted is an ICE processing center, a front-line site in federal immigration enforcement.
Johnson covers that beat as a conservative media voice. The suit now puts his post-protest videos under civil attack from people who say they were misidentified as violent actors and terrorists.
Whether a jury or a judge ever agrees with Frankovich and Foody is a separate question. The complaint itself frames the fight as one over false portrayal, not over the right to protest outside an ICE gate.
For now, the public record in this report is thin on verbatim clips and thinner still on any defense filing. The named parties, the Oct. 3 timeline, the Broadview location, and the terrorism-and-violence allegations are the spine of the case as described.
Suing a journalist over hard footage from an ICE protest will not erase the enforcement pressures that brought demonstrators to Broadview in the first place.
