An ICE agent who was filmed brutally slamming a woman to the ground in front of her children has been ‘relieved’ of his duties, according to an official.
Now-viral footage of the male officer showed him throwing her to the hard ground as he repeatedly told her ‘adios’.
The woman was heard pleading with the plain-clothes official at the New York City customs and immigration offices after her husband was detained and whisked away by ICE agents just moments earlier.
Her young daughter cried as her mother was violently forced to the floor and witnesses rushed to surround her.
Now, days after the vicious moment took the internet by storm, it has been confirmed that the unnamed officer has been ‘relieved’ of his duties, Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, told People.
‘The officer’s conduct in this video is unacceptable and beneath the men and women of ICE,’ McLaughlin added.
It is unclear if the agent is still employed with the agency or not. The Daily Mail reached out to McLaughlin for clarification.
Just before things got physical, the woman was heard pleading with the ICE agent in Spanish, saying: ‘Please take me too,’ CBS reported.
The ICE agent who was seen body slamming a woman onto the floor has been ‘relieved’ of his duties, according to an official
The woman is seen on the ground with complete terror in her face after she was thrown by the agent
‘They are going to kill him. They pulled my hair. You guys don’t care about anything,’ she added.
She reached for the officer’s arm and in response he shoved her with both hands into the wall and slammed her onto the ground.
He can be heard saying ‘adios, adios’ as he slammed her away from him.
Court security then arrived to remove the weeping woman.
According to New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, who was just one of many to condemn the video online, the mother and wife were placed in an ambulance and taken to the hospital following the altercation.
Her injuries and condition are unknown.
Lander acknowledged the fatal shooting on ICE agents in Texas on Wednesday which left one immigrant dead and two more injured, but said he must condemn all ‘political violence.
‘Let’s be clear: every day, masked ICE agents are acting violently against our neighbors, illegally abducting them, holding them in cruel and inhumane conditions. Treating them as less-than-human, and not deserving due process.
‘We want ICE out of New York City. And we won’t stop showing up until they stop abducting our neighbors.’
The woman’s young daughter watched in tears as her mom was pushed to the floor
New York Congressman Dan Goldman was also in the building at the time, and posted on X that the family had come to his office following the exchange which he called an ‘egregious act of excessive force’.
He said: ‘This is unacceptable conduct from this ICE agent.
‘Secretary Noem must take appropriate disciplinary action and implement measures to prevent this from happening again.’
According to Lander, the woman’s husband had been taken into custody ‘seconds earlier’ by immigration agents who were masked and had not identified themselves.
They also reportedly declined to present a warrant or give lawful grounds for his arrest.
The hysterical mother pleaded with ICE after her husband was ripped away from her by masked agents
According to New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, who was just one of many to condemn the video online, the mother and wife were placed in an ambulance and taken to the hospital following the altercation
In the video of his arrest, the man held onto his wife and children as the masked agents grabbed him outside of New York City immigration courts.
The agents pulled him away from his crying family and shoved him down the hallway to the processing center on another floor.
Lander said that the woman is a mother to two children. According to The New York Times, she and her family had arrived in the United States from Ecuador last year.
He said: ‘He was ripped out of her arms right in front of the family.’
