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As violent clashes between ICE agents and protesters escalate in Minneapolis, video is now circulating of a woman being pulled from her car by masked agents and dragged away as she says she is a disabled autistic person trying to see a doctor.
The showdown with the woman happened on Tuesday, allegedly just a few blocks away from where Renee Nicole Good was killed by an ICE agent last week.
In Tuesday’s video, posted on YouTube by Freedom News TV, the woman is shown sitting behind the wheel of her vehicle, which is stopped on the street with the driver’s side window down.
Multiple masked ICE agents approach her car and tell her to move it, while another agent points in the direction he wants her to go. She answers, but it is not clear what she is saying or who she is talking to.
That same agent then pulls on the driver’s door handle, but is unable to open it. The woman then drives slowly forward and stops. The agents approach the car again, asking it to move.
At that moment, another agent, who is on the passenger side of the vehicle, breaks the glass on the passenger door. During the altercation, protesters and ice agents can be heard yelling at each other and at the woman. Some people who look like protesters tell her to drive away.
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Several agents then approach the vehicle, and one opens the rear door on the driver’s side, while the other two try to enter the front door on the driver’s side.
Eventually, an agent grabbed the woman, pulled her out of the car, and forced her onto the sidewalk. Two agents then pulled her to her feet, and she grabbed the window with one hand and shouted: “I was there beaten by the police before that. I’m disabled, I’m trying to go to the doctor upstairs, that’s why I couldn’t move.”
Another agent then goes to the driver’s side of the vehicle and uses a knife to cut the woman’s seat belt that was wrapped around her.
The woman again declares that she is an “autistic person with a disability” and tries to see a doctor
At that moment, the masked agent grabs her, turns her so she’s facing the car, and two other agents join him to force her to put her hands behind her back. They handcuff her and take her away as the protesters continue to blow their whistles and yell at the agents.
There was also tear gas, flash grenades and pepper balls shot at the protesters during the stand-off, according to multiple media reports.
CBC News reached out to ICE for comment on the incident, but the agency did not respond before publication.

Spokesman for Department of Homeland Security told The Independent that ICE officers were in the area to execute an arrest warrant for a 20-year-old man, originally from Ecuador, who they said entered the U.S. illegally near El Paso, Texas in 2019.
“While the officers were performing their law enforcement duties, a large crowd surrounded them and began disrupting law enforcement operations – a federal crime,” a spokesman told the newspaper.
“One female agitator ignored the police officer’s repeated commands to remove her vehicle from the scene and was arrested for obstruction. Another female agitator attacked the officer by jumping on his back. Six of these agitators were detained for assaulting the police.”
As the federal law enforcement agency continues its crackdown in Minneapolis, it has become common for people to boo, jeer and whistle when they spot heavily armed immigration agents driving past in unmarked vehicles or walking the streets.
It’s all part of a massive effort to warn neighbors about ICE, confront agents about their actions and remind the government that residents are watching agents as they serve warrants.
Homeland Security says it has made more than 2,000 arrests in the state since the beginning of December.







