>> One Midway blitz saga ends while another goes on.

Federal prosecutors today dropped all charges against the remaining Broadview 6 defendants separately, a Cook County judge will not appoint a special prosecutor to investigate alleged misconduct by federal immigration agents.

But the door is still open for local law enforcement to collect evidence.

W t Tw News reporter Matt Masterson joins now with more.

Matt, why did feds drop all the charges?

In a broad view, 6 case spread.

It was really a stunning day at the Dirksen Federal Building prosecutors conduct other misconduct before the federal grand jury that indicted these initial 6 broad view.

>> Defendants, that's what led to the dismissal today.

These 6, of course, we're accused with conspiring to surround vehicle in suburban Broadview and impede its progress.

What we learned today was that an initial grand jury that this case was presented to refused to indict prosecutors, then remove some members of that grand jury and present the case a second time to secure indictment against them.

They also one of the prosecutor spoke with a member of the grand jury outside the confines of those proceedings pages pages of transcripts that were supposed to be presented to the judge in this case from that grand proceeding, what went missing, they were not presented to the judges.

They were supposed to be.

None of that, of course, is allowed during the grand jury process.

Defense attorneys in this case, some of whom are former federal prosecutors themselves said they were sick and they had they had never seen any type of behavior like this before.

They said they were shocked.

The call for Shane sanctions against some of these prosecutors to handle this and they want to see these people held accountable for the way that this case played out.

>> Like you said, those are really stunning revelations.

What did the U.S.

Attorney Andrew just have to say?

We trust made a surprise appearance in court.

He was the one who announced this dismissal today.

He said he was upset by this conduct.

He said he's never seen anything like this happening as office before he claimed that he dropped the he ordered the dismissal of the top felony conspiracy count just weeks ago when he learned what happened, he apologized to the court, but he also stood by the charges that his prosecutors were set to go to trial on just next week.

There are still going to go to trial on misdemeanor counts against these defendants starting Tuesday.

Okay.

So moving on to the decision to not appoint a special prosecutor.

What prompted the judge to consider this issue?

There was a petition filed by 400 elected officials.

Attorneys community organizers who demanded a special prosecutor be brought in after states attorney Eileen O'Neill.

Burke has refused.

>> They say to bring any charges in federal ice cases stemming from Operation Midway Blitz.

sure that the petitioner's claim that O'Neill Birkhead abandon her duties to investigate.

But when claim that she doesn't have that ability to investigate it, any cases that comes to her and needs to be started by law enforcement.

Police need to do this and then they bring this investigation to She cannot start an investigation on her own.

And today, Judge Erica Reddick, who was in charge deciding whether or not to appoint a special prosecutor, she agreed Burke.

She said that these cases cannot these investigations.

Canopy started by a prosecutor's office.

They can't run their own police agency.

They need to have these investigations first brought to them before they can considering charges.

Okay.

So to that point, then have law enforcement agencies and other states have they responded to the accusations of misconduct by immigration agents, house that we have seen similar investigations go forth in Minnesota just this week, an ICE agent was charged in a non-fatal shooting.

>> Nothing like that has happened here yet.

But the Illinois State police this month did request assistance in investigating the fatal shooting of so the against Gonzalez by a federal agent last when parks office is supporting that investigation.

But they say they're not in the primary role.

They say they can't.

That's what they can't do.

That can't initiate.

>> The petitioners now say that to go forward with this.

people who say they were victimized by ICE agents during that way, but to go to police officers go to police agencies where they are and make complaints and that those complaints need to be