Security guard pulls gun on ICE protesters at Manhattan federal building
Manhattan NY Sept 19 2020
A security guard flashed her gun at Abolish ICE protesters who stormed inside a federal building in Lower Manhattan, video posted on social media shows.
The incident happened Wednesday at 26 Federal Plaza, a 41-floor building home to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Immigration Court and the FBI’s New York offices.
A video posted on Instagram shows the group inside the lobby of the heavily-fortified building, as a security guard pulls her gun and awkwardly points it at the protesters before putting it back in her holster.
The protesters also vandalized the building during the Wednesday demonstrations, spraying “Abolish” and “Free them all” on the walls, photos show.
The Federal Protective Service, which oversees the security guards, said the incident is under investigation.
The protests come as a whistleblower at a privately-run ICE detention center in Georgia recently revealed that immigrant women were subjected to gynecological procedures without consent.
ICE has been at the center of President Trump’s most controversial policies, and was behind the child-separation practices at the border in 2017.
