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December 18, 2025

Minneapolis Police Chief Criticizes Federal Immigration Agents for Dragging Woman Down Street
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Minneapolis's police chief is criticizing federal immigration agents
after they were caught on video kneeling on the back of a woman as they
held her facedown in a snow bank, before dragging her by the arm to an
unmarked vehicle. Video shows protesters confronting the agents as they
sought to arrest the woman, shouting that she was pregnant and couldn't
breathe, and pelting them with snowballs. The federal agents responded
by pointing weapons at the protesters and pepper-spraying them.

In California, immigrants jailed at the state's largest immigration
detention center have asked a federal court to require access to medical
care, which they say is needed to prevent immediate death or
irreversible harm. One plaintiff held at the California City Detention
Facility says he was denied access to cardiac specialists, even though
he suffers from pulmonary hypertension and congestive heart failure.
Another plaintiff who shows symptoms of prostate cancer has been denied
a cancer screening for nearly four months.


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