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A security guard at a federal FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in New York City pointed a gun at protesters in a shocking threat on video.
A protest to abolish ICE took place in Manhattan on Wednesday following a whistleblower complaint that immigrant women being held in Georgia suffered hysterectomies without consent.
Protesters gathered inside the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building at 26 Federal Plaza to denounce the allegedly forced gynecological procedures where they raised their fists, chanted in unison and whistled.
Video of the protest shows the moment a security guard holds up a gun and points it directly at protesters.
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A female security guard in the Javits Federal Building in downtown Manhattan, New York, pointed a gun at protesters who stormed the lobby on Wednesday
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Protesters rallied to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and stormed the building’s lobby on Wednesday. As they chanted, the guard brandished the pistol, pointed it menacingly, then put it away and waved the protesters to the door.
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Protesters gathered at 26 Federal Plaza to denounce the bombshell report that ICE forced hysterectomies on immigrant women. Protesters raised their fists, chanted in unison and blew into the lobby of the building
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Protesters shout even louder when they see the gun and keep it back in its holster and wave the crowd to leave the building.
The security guard works for the private company Paragon Systems.
“It got intense. We’re here every day to put our lives on the line so everyone can be safe, ”another guard told the New York Post Thursday.
Protesters left about 20 minutes after the gun incident.
The Federal Protective Service, which oversees the security guards, said the incident was under investigation.
DailyMail.com asked for comment.
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“It got intense. We’re here every day to put our lives on the line so everyone can be safe, ”another guard told the New York Post Thursday.
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A group of protesters pictured gathering outside the Federal building on Wednesday to protest against the ICE
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A large group of protesters entered the lobby of the building where they demanded that the ICE be abolished and dissolved following the report of forced gynecological procedures
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A view of the 41-story Jacob K. Javits building in downtown Manhattan from above
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Protesters vandalized the building by spraying “Abolish” and “Free Them All” on Wednesday on the walls of the heavily fortified tower.
Many carried signs stating that the protesters were “ICE and DHS genocide agents” and argued with press photographers saying they were not allowed to take their photos without their “consent” .
The doors to the Duane Street entrance to the building were also smashed and covered with plywood on Thursday.
On Monday, a whistleblower who previously worked at an ICE facility in Georgia lodged a complaint with the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security, saying “mass hysterectomies” on immigrant women and allegations of medical neglect have occurred. were held there.
Dawn Wooten, a former nurse at the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Ga., Said in the complaint that some women may have needed a hysterectomy, but “not everyone’s uterus can’t be that bad ”.
She testified that the immigrant women were referred to an anonymous doctor outside the facility for the “high rate of hysterectomies” and that a number of migrant women told her they were undergoing surgery without understand why.
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Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia, approximately 200 miles south of Atlanta
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“Everyone he sees has a hysterectomy – pretty much everyone,” Wooten said. “He even took out a young woman’s bad ovary.
ICE said in a statement that only two immigrants detained at the center had been referred to an outside gynecologist for hysterectomies since 2018.
The Office of the Inspector General has opened an investigation into these allegations.
“The charges will be fully investigated by an independent office, however, the ICE vehemently disputes the implication that detainees are being used for experimental medical procedures,” said Ada Rivera, medical director of Healh Service Corps at The Wall Street Journal.
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