A woman was pulled out of her car by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Tuesday in Minneapolis for allegedly impeding an ICE operation.
Footage captured of the interaction shows the woman positioned in her car across lanes of traffic, apparently blocking ICE vehicles from driving through during an anti-ICE protest following the death of Renee Nicole Good, who was fatally shot by an ICE agent last week.
It’s unclear if the woman was blocking the cars intentionally.
In the video, several masked ICE agents speak to the woman before an Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) agent can be seen smashing the passenger-side window of her vehicle.
Agents then grab the unidentified woman using the driver’s side window, and pull her onto the ground.
“I’ve been beat up by police before,” she said as she’s removed from the vehicle.
“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 shouts.
Protesters in the streets blow their whistles and yell at the ICE agents as they’re seen dragging the woman away.
The Department of Homeland Security responded after the video spread online.
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“As officers carried out their law enforcement duties, a significant crowd surrounded them and began impeding law enforcement operations — a federal crime,” a DHS spokesperson told Newsweek.
“One agitator ignored multiple commands by an officer to move her vehicle away from the scene, she was arrested for obstruction. Another agitator assaulted an officer by jumping on his back. Six of these agitators were taken into custody for assaulting law enforcement.”
At least 60 people have been charged with impeding or assaulting ICE agents in Minnesota in the last five days, ICE official Marcos Charles told Fox News.
“We will be arresting anybody that interferes or impedes in any of these enforcement actions,” Charles said. “We’ve already arrested 60… that have got in our way, impeded us or assaulted an officer.”
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The interaction comes less than a week after an ICE agent fatally shot 37-year-old Good.
The Trump administration has repeatedly defended the ICE agent who shot Good, a mother of three, saying he acted in self-defence.
Trump administration officials referred to Good as a “domestic terrorist,” and said she had attempted to ram federal agents with her car. But that explanation has been widely panned by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and others based on videos of the confrontation.
State and local authorities are urging the public to share video and any other evidence as they seek to separately investigate Good’s death after federal authorities insisted they would approach it alone and not share information.
— With files from The Associated Press
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