ICE and the Trump administration have sparked furious reactions and received hefty criticism amid the dispatch of ICE agents inthe Minneapolis-Saint Paul area. Now, a video has gone viral where footage shows ICE agents allegedly dragging a disabled woman from her car.
The Trump Administration dispatched more than 2,000 agents in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area in the last few weeks. The Department of Homeland Security has called it their largest operation ever as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented migrants.
Last week, 37-year-old mother of three Renee Nicole Good was killed when trying to leave the scene where ICE agents had stopped her car. It sparked fury nationwide, while many, including members of the Trump administration, called the agent’s actions self-defense.
The killing of Renee Nicole Good sparked large protests in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area. Speaking to Fox News, ICE official Charles Marcus said at least 60 protesters have been arrested and charged with assaulting or impeding ICE agents in the last five days.
“We will be arresting anybody that interferes or impedes in any of these enforcement actions,” he said. “We’ve already arrested 60… that have got in our way, impeded us or assaulted an officer.”
Footage shows ICE agents dragging a woman from her car
The video of the moment when Renee Nicole Good was shot dead spread worldwide. Now, six days later, another distressing video of a confrontation between a member of the public and an immigration enforcement officer has gone viral.
Just two blocks from Good, where a shooting occurred, an unidentified woman was seen being dragged out of her car, screaming, per The Independent. Several masked agents argued with the woman as she tried to drive away from them, with two reaching in through the driver’s side window.
One managed to force the door open, while the other dragged the woman out of the vehicle and onto the ground.
“I’ve been beat up by police before,” the woman shouts as she is dragged off in the clip. “I’m disabled, I’m trying to go to the doctor up there, that’s why I couldn’t move. I am an autistic disabled person, I’m trying to go to the doctor.”
Bystanders furious
Pedestrians yelled at the agents to stop, with one asking, “where is your humanity?”
“That’s so f***ed up,” another said, while a third was heard saying, “All you do is hurt”.
The Daily Mail writes that the woman dragged from her car tried to ‘wedge’ the agents between her vehicle, while another blocked the street. However, that has not been determined in the clip, which has gone viral on social media.
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