In a now-viral clip, ICE agents are shown crashing into a woman’s car and immediately being detained in Chicago, Illinois. Amid various bystanders heckling them, the federal agents are seen exiting the vehicle, grabbing the woman out of it, and detaining her. It was then confirmed that she was, in fact, a U.S. citizen.
The viral clip was shared by Courier News Room on TikTok, where it has gathered millions of views and tens of thousands of comments. As soon as the clip starts, a gray SUV veers to the right and intrudes into a black SUV’s lane. The black vehicle crashes into the white one, and federal agents then exit the latter.
With many bystanders recording the incident and confronting the agents, the officers, armed, are seen forcibly opening the black vehicle’s driver’s door, showing a woman who started screaming before she was pulled out.
“You guys hit her! What’s wrong with y’all?” the man recording the incident is heard saying. “She is trying to go to work!“
The woman, having lost her shoes during the scuffle, is then detained by ICE and is seen walking to the white SUV, barefoot.
“Hey, baby girl, don’t worry about it!” one man is heard telling the woman, in an attempt to comfort her. “Stop resisting,” another man said.
U.S. Citizen Confirmed, Reactions
The woman was later identified as Dayanne Figueroa by the Chicago Tribune. She is a U.S. citizen who was driving to get a cup of coffee before going to work in the Illinois city.
Figueroa was released hours later. Her family, however, was reportedly unable to contact her during the whole time she vanished, and they only found out what happened to her when they saw the clip shown above.
Many users online reacted negatively to Figueroa’s detainment, blasting ICE for what they deem is an “abduction.”
“This is sickening,” one user wrote. A second one said, “Shameful. If the concept still existed.” A third one commented, “I’m never setting foot in the US again. This is insanity.”
As per the Chicago Tribune, the Department of Homeland Security blamed Figueroa, saying that she “crashed into an unmarked government vehicle and violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers.” No files were filed against her.
