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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has taken one of its agents off the streets after he was caught on video throwing a distraught mother to the floor of a New York City courthouse in front of her two children on Thursday.
It wasn’t the first time videos have captured scenes of immigration agents using violent force to carry out the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign. But the videos of this incident — one of which I filmed for ProPublica — seemed to stir something different. In a rare move, the government publicly reprimanded an officer for such conduct.
“The officer’s conduct in this video is unacceptable and beneath the men and women of ICE,” an assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, Tricia McLaughlin, said. “Our ICE law enforcement are held to the highest professional standards and this officer is being relieved of current duties as we conduct a full investigation.”
I’ve only been in the U.S. as a reporter for eight weeks — so I just barely arrived. I come from Germany and am on the staff at Correctiv, a nonprofit investigative newsroom. I’d been alarmed by videos of masked ICE agents sweeping immigrants off the street, scenes I never thought I’d see in the United States, and I came with the goal of witnessing what was going on for myself. I wanted to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines.
Since arriving, I’ve spent time reporting in immigrant neighborhoods, emergency rooms, churches, ICE field offices and, most recently, in the federal courthouse in lower Manhattan. I’ve gone there most every morning for the past two weeks.
During that time, I’d seen ICE drag several immigrants away from their families, all of them sobbing and pleading with the officers not to separate them from their loved ones.
But what happened Thursday was a shocking escalation.
When I emerged from the elevator on the 14th floor, I heard a woman’s pleas. She sounded terrified. I walked around the corner to see what was happening. At the end of the hallway, I saw the woman, Monica Moreta-Galarza, standing in front of an agent. She was crying because her husband had been detained. She told the agent she was afraid her husband would be hurt. She wanted to go with him.
I began recording and captured the agent barking back at the woman. “Adios,” he said, over and over, pressing toward her as if warning her to back away. When she didn’t, he grabbed her. The rest — including her children’s screams — has been memorialized online.
I followed Moreta-Galarza to the hospital. She is an immigrant from Ecuador and has been living in Coney Island since last year. Speaking in Spanish, she said the government routinely beat people in her home country. “I didn’t think I’d come here to the United States and the same thing would happen to me.”
This morning, I went back to the courthouse with the goal of speaking to the agent who’d tackled Moreta-Galarza. I’d heard the other ICE agents call him Victor, though I can’t be sure that’s his real name. By the time I got there, however, he was gone.
ProPublica’s mission is impact. I don’t think any of us expected we’d help bring it about with my video. The question now is what will the government do the next time something like this happens.
I asked DHS how many agents have been disciplined this year for misusing force. They did not answer that question.
If you have tips about new ICE enforcement tactics in courts, we want to hear from you. Reach out via Signal (tilleckert.90) or propublica.org/tips.
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The ICE List is an open journalistic project, created by the Crustian Daily, aimed at collecting and sharing information that can hold ICE members legally accountable.
https://icelist.is/
Sources:
Projects Propublica Trump Ice Smashed Windows Deportation Arrests
https://projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-smashed-windows-deportation-arrests/
I Filmed the ICE Officer Who Shoved a Woman to the Floor Inside a New York Courthouse
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-officer-shoves-woman-till-eckert
A Pattern of Violence
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Zzzinthevalley
All those photographers just snapping away instead of stepping in to help her up. Asshole scum.
BruceLineer123
"Comey's a bad person. He's a sick person. He did terrible things." --Donald Trump, convicted of more felonies than Al Capone, Charles Manson and Bernie Madoff. Combined.
syko2k
It is always morally correct to cripple an ICE agent.
OzRockabella
Thank you for capturing their violent aggression.
lsrulevitch24
These thugs are abusers who unfortunately found a job they love. They can beat up women and get paid for it. Their dream job. The bystanders are complicit.
baconandmorebacon
I really think the USA needs a new amendment to its constitution. One that gives the people the right to own guns, so they can fight tyrann... What? They already have this? Hm, okay...
Smartbutnotreally
ICE ARE TERRORISTS! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
Bebrown1
The only reason that fucker was “reprimanded” was because he wasn’t wearing his mask. Otherwise, his superiors would just shrug and say, “Sorry, we don’t know who he was.” If they responded at all.
mikea77
The journalist's deportation coming in 3...2...
CliffWestern
If they aren't wearing a badge they should be treated like civilians assaulting other civilians
Clayman8
"...is below ICE standarts"
Hahahaha no. There is nothing beneath ICE standarts. There is no ICE standarts to begin with. Stop trying to humanize them.
ZenRage
They meant that he should've been wearing a mask, that's why they're going to "conduct a full investigation"
Clayman8
I was going to laugh but the sad thing is its such a horrible possibility to be true too. Like "You exposed your face so now they know who you are and HAVE to do an investigation into us"
psmith00
immigrant from Ecuador notes that the same sort of beatings from the authorities happen in both countries. congrats, America, you are now another Banana Republic with a fascist dictator.
hogninja
Bro forgot to wear his qualified immunity balaclava.
bakerguy1337
Fucker has a smile on his face at the start.
defensivebackhair
Sick fucker probably got off on it
reddles
My gut wonders what happens when there aren't cameras and in other locations. Something about the way he stood over her and his foot position.
Higure
He knows he gets to do what he joined ICE to do: feel the anger flowing through his veins, revel in the power it gives him.
DukeDarkwood
They're thugs. In any sane society, they'd be petty thugs, in the brief time before they get arrested and prosecuted.
In THIS society? They're official, professional thugs working for the Regime. The Despot-in-Chief is giving them carte blanche to do all the violence with none of the consequences.
They're schoolyard bullies who never grew up, and - VERY unfortunately - haven't had comeuppance at the hand of being stood up to.
artie500
This was a representative example if ICE's behavior, NOT a rare one. Let's see what DHS does about the underlying problem of a general lack of respect for civilians by their agents.
hotrodny
The sale of bear spray should increase
karlfrack
It got caught on video and ice thug wasn't wearing a mask. Otherwise nothing would even be said.
Toqom
All ice members are domestic terrorists, treat them accordingly.
drakcor
Hopefully a name gets put to him... Deserves to be humiliated.
lifeisadadjoke
A man needs a name
Corrodias
and a stroke
Corrodias
(in that guy, I mean)
lifeisadadjoke
HA HA HA - you ALMOST played yourself. But good recovery!!
SuspiciousCactus
This is why no masks for law enforcement is so important. If this guy had been masked and had plausible denialbility that it was him, he wouldnt have even been suspended. No secret police. Trump will eventually be gone, and everyone left holding the authoritarian bag needs to be held accountable.
TofuGolem
The USA is a fascist shithole.
JustDriftingAboutTheInterWebs
"Our ICE law
enforcement are held to the highest
professional standards..."
gcleff19101
That's wild that this is the one that they decided to say they're doing something about.
psmith00
and in what region ae blue and green plaid shirts the official uniform of the ICE Gestapo. this alone shows they are just hiring thugs off the street and they have no standard dress code to help define them.
mattrixk
"Relieved of current duties" at full pay no doubt. Nice little vacation for him.
reineseele
Yeah paid suspension with 0 consequences for most of them.
mycatsings
Trump will no doubt award this officer with "the medal of freedom"
ToSisPoS
Mindshard
It's actually completely true. It's just that their standards are all about kidnapping, torture, and disappearing 2/3rds of the people they put in concentration camps, and destroying the paperwork so they can never be found.
Over 1,200 of the first 1,800 sent to alligator auschwitz are just "gone", and they claim there's no record of them left.
YouRadicalizedMe
And none of you pussies helped. Fuck you and fuck them
JustDriftingAboutTheInterWebs
ToSisPoS
Pigeon. Chess. I love you Suzie.
ToSisPoS
StrokeFlavoured
A1 Nazi shit. Fight back! They will not stop. It will get worse.
pvtsquirel
It's kinda crazy to show up from a foreign country to film what ICE is doing right now, ballsy, but I'd recommend against it. Shit's escalating quickly, don't come here
VinnyVeritas
I'll take bets this ICE-hole has a history of domestic abuse charges
beezzarro
Honestly, I'd like to punch something.
Stinkybuttpants
after trump’s heart explodes from cholesterol, I’m throwing the biggest party, and everyone is invited
Karma1970
I would piss and shit on his grave.
TanithRosenbaum
I think you will need to get in line, just about everyone here in Germany will want to do that too.
DukeDarkwood
The line stretches from MAGA Lago (because we sure ain't burying him in Arlington) all the way to Spokane. You'll have to take a number.
LivingIsLearning
Maybe it is just me. Why are five people just taking pictures of this instead of stopping him? Why are there several police officers just watching? It is saddening to see. But again, maybe it is just me
ecstaticpuppy
lol because they would have gotten physically destroyed by all the other officers and cops. What would you have done, Rambo? Only recourse is to document it and hope some judge cares later.
InvalidAsh
I'm not gonna berate civilians for being too scared to interfere (and catching a possible obstruction charge) and I'm not gonna expect cops to actually hold their peers accountable.
Having it recorded for posterity is still extremely valuable, because we can all SEE it now. And when this regime inevitably collapses (as all fascist regimes do) the collaborators and mobsters can get marched into whatever the US version of Nuremberg is.
SecondHandDeathWish
The little girl is the only one that even tried to take action. The hate and complacency are both sickening
ImgurIsOutOfUsernames
This comment is almost as stupid and uninformed as the comment you're replying to, for a whole lot of really obvious reasons that no doubt will be lost on you.
sobeman
They are doing the same thing you would be doing and don't try to say otherwise
OzRockabella
This is a regime; people fear the repercussions of opposing King Frump's brownshirts, and with good reason.
19marcurious57
As for those reporters in there amongst other people, taking pictures or shooting footage: it is their job, it is their way to make a living. More simply put, they sell the images taken by them. Knife cuts on both sides tho, whilst being 'at work'. It is a testimony at the same time to the world about what's going on in America right now. We need them. Gawking next to a traffic accident is something else.
ImgurIsOutOfUsernames
Alright, hero, tell us what you would have done? Let's play a game, you tell us what you'd have done and we'll tell you what the consequences of those actions will be. At the end, we'll see if you still have a job, still have custody of your kids, aren't in jail, and are still alive.
threepotatoesinatrenchcoat
I think that documenting these kinds of abuses has a much wider impact than stopping the one event. It sucks, but their duty is to make sure that this stuff gets out, not prevent one individual event from happening
Renza0
cant speak to the randos and reporters, but acab for the latter.
jamiedBreaker
As soon as we intervene, Trump declares martial law and the civil war begins. We are treading a fine line.
AshenRaine
Who says he needs a reason to?
boumboum34
Police are on the side of ICE. They were ICE before ICE was ICE.
As for the civilians, interfering gets them arrested and jailed for felony obstruction, at the very least, possibly in inhumane conditions depending on who exactly is doing the arresting.
A felony on your record can have all kinds of consequences in the USA, including getting you fired from your job, evicted from your home, even lose custody of your kids.
Grenkak12
Or, you know, elected President
boumboum34
p.s. Ever see the movie "Trading Places"? Dan Ackroyd plays a rich guy reduced to homelessness? That was due to a felony conviction. Innocent of course, framed for drugs by his 2 bosses over a $1 bet.
TiffanyKorta
They were fighting each other to get around her and take pictures, that's not fear of the government, that's hustling to get the story over everything else.
Yes, ICE and scum, and they should be recorded doing their crimes, but not at the expense of simple human dignity.