FILE - Security guards stand outside the Jacob K. Javits Federal Office Building at 26 Federal Plaza, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Pamela Smith, file)
In rare rebuke, federal officials discipline ICE officer for shoving woman in New York
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 A federal immigration officer who shoved an Ecuadorian woman to the floor at a Manhattan court is 鈥渂eing relieved of current duties” following the 鈥渦nacceptable鈥 behavior, the Department of Homeland Security said Friday in a rare rebuke of one of its officers.
FILE - Security guards stand outside the Jacob K. Javits Federal Office Building at 26 Federal Plaza, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Pamela Smith, file)
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 A federal immigration officer who shoved an Ecuadorian woman to the floor at a Manhattan court is 鈥渂eing relieved of current duties” following the 鈥渦nacceptable鈥 behavior, the Department of Homeland Security said Friday in a rare rebuke of one of its officers.
In videos of the altercation, the woman can be seen pleading with the officer after her husband was arrested. The officer is captured in images that spread quickly on social media pushing her through a group of photographers into a wall and then onto the floor in a crowded hallway.
鈥淭he officer鈥檚 conduct in this video is unacceptable and beneath the men and women of ICE,” said Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary at DHS, which oversees .
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鈥淥ur 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,鈥 she added.
It is extremely rare for the Trump administration’s DHS to discipline its immigration officers for aggressive tactics.
The altercation occurred Thursday at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan, a government building that has become a local hotbed of the federal government’s immigration crackdown.
