The Trump administration’s deployment of more than 2,000 ICE agents to Minneapolis–Saint Paul, described by the Department of Homeland Security as its “largest DHS operation ever,” has sparked widespread backlash and heightened tensions, especially after a viral video showed officers allegedly dragging a disabled woman from her car amid an aggressive immigration enforcement surge tied to fraud allegations involving Somali-run childcare centers.
Officials claim the purpose of the operation is to arrest “fraudsters, murderers, rapists, and gang members,” but the crackdown coming on the heels of the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent has drawn criticism from local leaders and residents as well as broader protests over enforcement tactics.
ICE official Charles Marcus told Fox News that at least 60 demonstrators have been taken into custody over the past five days, facing charges related to assaulting or obstructing ICE agents.
“We will be arresting anybody that interferes or impedes in any of these enforcement actions,” he told the publication. “We’ve already arrested 60… that have got in our way, impeded us or assaulted an officer.”
Six days after the footage of Good’s killing emerged on the social media, showing her attempting to drive away from the officers before being shot three times, a new video of a confrontation between ICE officers and a member of the public has gone viral.
The video shows a woman being dragged from her vehicle by two masked ICE agents just two blocks away from where Good was shot.
“I’ve been beat up by police before,” the woman could be heard shouting.
“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,” she added, as per The Independent.
Bystanders could be seen reacting to the agents’ action, with one of them asking “Where is your humanity?” and another one saying, “All you do is hurt.”
Some media suggested the woman tried to “wedge” ICE agents between her vehicle and another car blocking the street, though this is not clearly shown in the viral video.
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