Minneapolis: A video shows masked US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents forcibly removing a woman from her car during a tense standoff in Minneapolis. The woman repeatedly informed the officers that she was disabled and attempting to reach a medical appointment when the incident occurred on Tuesday.
According to Anadolu Agency, the footage, posted by Freedom News TV, was captured just blocks from the location where Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent last week. In the video, the woman is seen behind the wheel as agents instruct her to move. When she hesitates, an agent breaks a passenger-side window, and others pull her from the vehicle.
The woman, as she is forced to the ground, can be heard shouting, "I've been beat up by police before. I'm disabled, trying to go to the doctor up there, that's why I couldn't move." She further identifies herself as an "autistic disabled person."
A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson informed The Independent that officers were executing an arrest warrant nearby, and the woman was detained for obstruction after failing to comply with commands. The spokesperson noted, "As officers carried out their law enforcement duties, a significant crowd surrounded them and began impeding law enforcement operations - a federal crime."
The event took place amid increasing protests against ICE operations in Minneapolis, where DHS reports that more than 2,000 arrests have been made statewide since early December.