{"id":268647,"date":"2025-10-01T07:57:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T07:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/268647\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T07:57:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T07:57:18","slug":"photojournalist-hospitalized-after-masked-ice-agents-throw-reporters-to-the-ground-in-new-york-immigration-courthouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/268647\/","title":{"rendered":"Photojournalist hospitalized after masked ICE agents throw reporters to the ground in New York immigration courthouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Widely shared video shows masked federal agents throwing several reporters to the floor inside an immigration courthouse in downtown Manhattan<\/a>, days after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer was suspended for tackling a crying woman<\/a> and pinning her to the ground in the same building.<\/p>\n

Video from inside 26 Federal Plaza, which serves as headquarters for several federal law enforcement agencies, shows masked agents trying to forcibly remove a journalist from an elevator while calling out \u201cget out the f****** elevator.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another agent then shoves a photographer across the hall. A third photographer is then knocked to the floor; footage<\/a> from photojournalist Stephanie Keith shows him grabbing his head in pain before emergency medical personnel arrive and put him in a neck brace and onto a stretcher.<\/p>\n

Last week, a crying woman pleading for her husband\u2019s release from ICE custody was hospitalized after an agent shoved her across the hall<\/a>, pushed her to the ground and pinned her down on her back.<\/p>\n

That incident was similarly captured by a large scrum of reporters and photographers who have been roaming the 12th floor of 26 Federal Plaza for months as the building emerged as a flashpoint for Donald Trump\u2019s mass deportation agenda.<\/p>\n

\"Federal<\/p>\n

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Federal agents shove Associated Press freelance photographer Olga Fedorova on September 30 inside an immigration courthouse in downtown Manhattan (Getty)<\/p>\n

Dean Moses, the police bureau chief of amNewYork, was among reporters who followed a woman into an elevator bank Tuesday morning after she was apprehended by ICE.<\/p>\n

\u201cA couple of seconds after she goes into the elevator, two ICE agents go in after her,\u201d Moses told the outlet. <\/a>\u201cThey never identified themselves, they didn\u2019t ask for her papers or her ID.\u201d<\/p>\n

Agents then grabbed Moses and tossed him from the elevator.<\/p>\n

Another agent then shoved Olga Fedorova, a freelancer working for the Associated Press. <\/p>\n

In the process, another photojournalist \u2014 L. Vural Elibol of the Anadolu Agency \u2014 was knocked to the ground, hitting his head on the floor.<\/p>\n

\"ICE<\/p>\n

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ICE agents wrangle amNewYork reporter Dean Moses out of an elevator and shoved several reporters and photographers (AP)<\/p>\n

Last week, a spokesperson for Homeland Security told The Independent that the agent who shoved an asylum seeker was \u201crelieved of current duties\u201d \u2014 but it\u2019s unclear whether he is still on the job.<\/p>\n

According to CBS News<\/a>, the officer returned to duty after a preliminary review of the incident.<\/p>\n

The agent\u2019s conduct was \u201cunacceptable and beneath the men and women of ICE,\u201d Homeland Security deputy secretary Tricia McLaughlin told The Independent last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur 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,\u201d McLaughlin said at the time.<\/p>\n

The incidents follow the Trump administration\u2019s policy to swiftly arrest immigrants immediately after they leave their immigration court hearings<\/a>. Immigration judges have been ordered by the Department of Justice to dismiss their cases, rendering them without legal status \u2014 and making them immediately vulnerable to arrest and removal from the country before they\u2019ve had a chance to appeal.<\/p>\n

The policy has created chaotic scenes of masked agents patrolling courthouse hallways and hauling away immigrants.<\/p>\n

The majority of the more than 3,000 ICE arrests in New York City since Trump returned to the White House have taken place inside 26 Federal Plaza<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis abuse of law-abiding immigrants and the reporters telling their stories must end,\u201d Governor Kathy Hochul said Tuesday. \u201cWhat the hell are we doing here?\u201d<\/p>\n

New York Attorney General Letitia James<\/a> said the \u201caggressive and violent treatment of immigrants, public officials, and members of the press at 26 Federal Plaza needs to stop, now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis administration cannot harm others who are following the rules and exercising their constitutional rights,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Homeland Security did not return The Independent\u2019s requests for comment.<\/p>\n

\"Monica<\/p>\n

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Monica Moreta-Galarza, an asylum seeker from Ecuador, was thrown to the ground by an ICE agent inside 26 Federal Plaza on September 25 (Getty)<\/p>\n

The New York Immigration Coalition and other advocacy groups working with immigrants inside the facility have called on ICE and other federal law enforcement to withdraw from immigration courts.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether it\u2019s family members attending court, community members offering court watch support, or journalists exercising their constitutional right to document events, ICE has shown a blatant disregard for human dignity and safety,\u201d according to New York Immigration Coalition president Murad Awawdeh. <\/p>\n

Unlike federal district court judges, immigration court judges operate under the direction of the attorney general\u2019s office. The Justice Department\u2019s Executive Office for Immigration Review issued guidance to immigration judges earlier this year to grant motions from government lawyers to immediately dismiss immigrants\u2019 cases, making them easy targets for arrest.<\/p>\n

Last month, a federal judge called the practice a \u201cgame of detention roulette\u201d that violates due process.<\/p>\n

Another federal judge last month blocked immigration authorities from rapidly deporting immigrants by using a fast-tracked removal process central to those arrests, warning that the government risks violating due process rights for people who have \u201clong since entered\u201d the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":268648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-268647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115297848728288508","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268647","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=268647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}