Federal agents grab and shove journalists outside NYC immigration court, sending one to hospital
New York (AP) – Federal agents caught journalists in a corridor outside the New York City City Migration Court on Tuesday and pushed and sent to the hospital in the last clash between the officials implemented by President Donald Trump. immigration pressure and members of the people trying to observe and document their actions.
According to videos and witnesses, a visual journalist, defined as the Turkish news agency L. Vural Elibol, the US immigration and customs enforcement agents, pushed a journalist from a public pursuit and pushed another journalist to the ground after he hit 26 federal plazas in Manhattan.
A spectator grabbed Elibol’s head and treated him until an ambulance arrived. The video showed him with a neck support as medical officials took him out of the building on a stretcher. Other journalists, Amnework Police Office Chief Dean Moses and Free photographer Olga Fedorova, including his customers Associated Press, were not seriously injured.
Deputy Internal Security Secretary Tricia McLughlin defended the actions of the agents by saying that they were deported by agitators and press members by preventing operations ”.
“Over again, the agitators and journalists said to return to the crowd, to move and leave the elevator,” McLawlin said in a statement. He said. “Rebellions and shelter politicians who encourage individuals to intervene in arrests are actively creating hostile environments that are damaged by civil servants, prisoners and people.”
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Moses said that when the masked agents caught him and he pushed a newly separated woman from a 12th floor elevator, the situation climbed.
Um I entered the elevator behind them and they started screaming at me, Mos Moses said. “Then they pushed me, caught me through my arms and started pulling me out of the elevator. I tried to hold it, but I was pushed.”
The video, taken by photographer Stephanie Keith, showed that another agent pushed Fedorova, who fell back to the place where Elibol was lying on the ground.
Fedorova said photographers worked in the corridor outside the immigration court for months. He said that the arrest agents on Tuesday did not announce any limit to journalists and that they were arrested when they entered the elevator.
Fedorova said, orsa If they tell us to go out, not to cross a certain line, we follow their orders. ” “In this case, it was not open to anyone with any detention.”
The chapter took place only days after the federal agent in the Manhattan Migration Court caught a equal woman on a wall after her husband was arrested.
Both conflicts took place in a part of the federal building, which were open to the public, and routinely came to court hearing, the agents waiting to make arrests, activists to protest the arrests and journalists documenting conflicts.
The elected democrats, including the New York government Kathy Hochul, condemned the use of agents and the aggressive immigration of the Republican administration.
Hochul wrote, “The immigrants who follow the law and journalists describing their stories should be abused and journalists should end”. What are we doing here?
Zohran Mamdani, a candidate for the Mayor of New York, said, “26 In the Federal Plaza, we cannot accept or normalize what has become routine violence. We have no place in our city.”
