{"id":267647,"date":"2025-09-30T22:58:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/267647\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T22:58:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:58:14","slug":"journalist-hospitalized-after-clash-with-federal-agents-in-nyc-immigration-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/267647\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalist hospitalized after clash with federal agents in NYC immigration court"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Federal agents grabbed and shoved journalists in a hallway outside a New York City immigration court on Tuesday, sending one to the hospital in the latest clash between authorities enforcing President Donald Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown<\/a> and members of the public seeking to observe and document their actions.<\/p>\n

A visual journalist identified as L. Vural Elibol of the Turkish news agency Anadolu hit his head on the floor at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pushed one journalist off a public elevator and shoved another journalist to the floor, according to video and witnesses.<\/p>\n

A bystander held Elibol\u2019s head and a nurse treated him until an ambulance arrived, witnesses said. Video showed him in a neck brace as paramedics wheeled him out of the building on a stretcher. The other journalists, amNewYork police bureau chief Dean Moses and Olga Fedorova, a freelance photographer whose clients include The Associated Press, were not seriously injured.<\/p>\n

Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin defended the agents\u2019 actions, saying they were being \u201cswarmed by agitators and members of the press, which obstructed operations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOfficers repeatedly told the crowd of agitators and journalists to get back, move, and get out of the elevator,\u201d McLaughlin said in a statement. \u201cRioters and sanctuary politicians who encourage individuals to interfere with arrests are actively creating hostile environments that put officers, detainees and the public in harm\u2019s way.\u201d<\/p>\n

A message seeking comment was left for the Anadolu news agency.<\/p>\n

Moses said the situation escalated when masked agents grabbed him and shoved him from an elevator on the 12th floor as he was attempting to photograph them arresting a woman who had just left immigration court.<\/p>\n

\u201cI walked into the elevator behind them, and they started screaming at me,\u201d Moses told amNewYork. \u201cThen they pushed me, grabbed me by my arms, and started pulling me out of the elevator. I tried to hold on, but I got shoved out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Video taken by photographer Stephanie Keith showed that during the struggle, another agent shoved Fedorova, who fell backward toward where Elibol lay on the floor.<\/p>\n

Fedorova said photographers had worked in the hallway outside immigration court for months without incident. The agents making arrests Tuesday, she said, didn\u2019t announce any limits where journalists could go, and they hadn\u2019t made it clear they were making an arrest when they got on the elevator.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they tell us to get out, to not cross a certain line, we follow their orders,\u201d Fedorova said. \u201cIn this case, it was not clear to anyone that this was a detention at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

The episode happened just days after a federal agent at the Manhattan immigration court was captured on video shoving an Ecuadorian woman into a wall and onto the floor after her husband was arrested.<\/p>\n

Both confrontations took place in a part of the federal building that is open to the public, and is routinely filled with immigrants on their way to and from court hearings, agents waiting to make arrests, activists there to protest the arrests, and journalists documenting the confrontations.<\/p>\n

Elected Democrats, including New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, denounced the agents\u2019 use of force and the Republican administration\u2019s aggressive immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis abuse of law-abiding immigrants and the reporters telling their stories must end,\u201d Hochul wrote in a social media post. \u201cWhat the hell are we doing here?\u201d<\/p>\n

State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, a candidate for New York City mayor, said: \u201cWe cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Federal agents grabbed and shoved journalists in a hallway outside a New York City…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":267648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,356,69,57,409,5371,5249,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,139456,80,139455,10425,3676,61,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-267647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-courts","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-general-news","12":"tag-immigration","13":"tag-kathy-hochul","14":"tag-manhattan","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkcity","19":"tag-ny","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-olga-fedorova","22":"tag-politics","23":"tag-stephanie-keith","24":"tag-tricia-mclaughlin","25":"tag-u-s-department-of-homeland-security","26":"tag-u-s-news","27":"tag-united-states","28":"tag-united-states-of-america","29":"tag-unitedstates","30":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","31":"tag-us","32":"tag-usa","33":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115295728734815395","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}