New Delhi: A torturous video from the streets of Minneapolis has sparked outrage wideness the US without showing a woman, believed to be pregnant, stuff dragged on a snow-covered road by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) wage-earner during a detention attempt.
What Happened on the Street?
The incident occurred on Monday afternoon, when federal immigration teachers were delivering out a targeted enforcement whoopee near a rented neighbourhood in south Minneapolis. The video, which is shared widely online, shows a woman stuff held lanugo in the snow by officers while the people watching shouted that she was pregnant and struggling to breathe.
At one point, an wage-earner appears to kneel on the woman’s back. Later, she was handcuffed and pulled by one arm wideness icy pavement toward a vehicle as residents unfurled to shout and protest. Some plane threw snowballs toward the agents.
According to ICE, the incident happened during 'Operation Metro Surge.'
Officials later confirmed the woman was released without the confrontation intensified.
What Do Authorities Say?
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara described the video as tightly concerning, stating that federal teachers requested local assistance without reporting they were under attack.
O'Hara criticised the federal agents’ approach, saying municipality officers are trained in de-escalation and that they did not see violence versus ICE teachers when they arrived to assist.
"We have been training our officers for the last five years very, very intensely on de-escalation, but unfortunately that is... often not what we are seeing from other agencies in the city," O'Hara said.
