Excessive Force
1990 - Tiananmen Square Comments
1990-01-01 Trump praised the Chinese government for their “strength and paramilitary action” during Tiananmen Square.
https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/trumps-praise-for-china-over-tiananmen-square-year
2024
2024-09-29 During a campaign rally in Eerie Pennsylvania, Trump suggested unlimited police brutality with no consequences, “One rough hour – and I mean real rough – the word will get out and it will end immediately, you know?”.
https://people.com/donald-trump-evokes-purge-one-violent-day-solve-crime-8720495
2025 June
2025-06-13 Senator Alex Padilla was forcibly removed from a press conference while attempting to question Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
2025-06-23 US Marine and father of three Narcisco Barranco was beaten and detained after DHS accused him of assaulting ICE agents with a weedwhacker. Video footage debunked DHS claims.
2025 July
2025-07-10 ICE detained Iraq war veteran George Retes while he was on the way to work. Retes was pepper sprayed, strip searched, denied a lawyer or phone call, and kept for three days.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/19/us/california-immigration-raid-george-retes
2025 September
2025-09-16 Federal agents attacked an 80-year-old US citizen in Van Nys during a raid of his business.
2025-09-23 ICE agents assaulted a woman during a Chicago protest.
2025-09-26 An ICE agent was fired only after he was caught on camera violently shoving an immigrant’s wife. At this point, ICE agents were not wearing body cameras.
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/manhattan/ice-agent-suspended-video-federal-plaza/6396770/
2025-09-28 ICE fired chemical weapons at TV reporters in Chicago, unprovoked.
2025 October
2025-10-01 Illinois investigated ICE for numerous allegations of feuding with residents and endangering first responders.
2025-10-02 During a Memphis Safe Task Force conference, Stephen Miller told law enforcement they were “unleashed”, saying, “we are about to provide you with a level of support that you cannot even imagine”.
2025-10-02 ICE raided a Chicago apartment in the middle of the night with riot trucks, smoke grenades and helicopters. Agents used zip ties, dragged children out naked, and when residents asked ICE why they were zip-tying children too an agent responded, “fuck them kids”.
2025-10-03 ICE agents threw chemical irritants at citizens outside the Logan Square grocery store in Chicago.
2025-10-04 ICE agents knocked down and pepper sprayed 84-year-old Vietnam Veteran Richard Eckman while he was leaning on his walker. Agents also launched a projectile at his wife Laurie who sustained a bleeding head injury from the attack.
2025-10-04 ICE agents in Chicago opened fire and shot a U.S. citizen. The woman, bleeding profusely from multiple gunshot wounds, drove herself to a nearby business where workers tried to stop the bleeding and called 911. DHS said the woman was on their watchlist for doxxing agents and alleged she tried to ram them with her vehicle. Footage later released from body cam video contradicted their accounts.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/chicago-woman-shot-by-border-patrol-indicted
2025-10-05 ICE agents in Chicago tear-gassed local police officers.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/onCvjvWN7zA
2025-10-05 ICE agents shot US citizen Marimar Maritnez multiple times during a raid. Uncovered body cam footage showed ICE agents taunting the victim and shouting “do something bitch” during the interaction.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/07/chicago-woman-shot-immigration-agents
2025-10-05 Kash Patel posted false video evidence on his X account of the so-called ramming of DHS vehicles by Marimar Martinez, which later turned out to be video from another unrelated vehicular assault. This came to light after video evidence surfaced that DHS was lying about the events concerning Marimar Martinez, who they shot multiple times.
2025-10-09 ICE agents were caught on video standing on a rooftop shooting at a Presbyterian minister below. The agent shot the minister in the head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc6aKQHFGnQ
2025-10-09 Four cemetery workers and were arrested by ICE while trying to help a struggling man in a local nearby river. ICE agents drew guns at them, sprayed them with mace, used excessive force, and zip tied them.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/ice-forest-park-cemetery-workers/
2025-10-14 ICE agents tear-gassed residents on the Southeast side of Chicago during a raid.
2025-10-20 ICE agents surrounded, handcuffed and dragged a blind man to an ICE facility during a peaceful protest.
2025-10-21 Federal ICE agents shot Carlitos Ricardo Parias during a targeted traffic stop, claiming he tried to ram officers with his vehicle. Charges were dropped in December because agents didn’t comply with court deadlines, the defendant was not given proper access to counsel while being detained, and DHS wouldn’t release body cam footage.
2025-10-25 ICE agents deployed tear gas in a park in Chicago near a local children’s Halloween party. During the incident, agents in tactical gear pulled a 67-year-old man out of his car and dragged him in front of children, fracturing his ribs.
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU00/20251118/118692/HMKP-119-JU00-20251118-SD006.pdf
2025-10-30 Federal ICE agents shot Carlos Jimenez after he asked federal agents to move away from an area where schoolchildren were gathering. The victim, a father of three, called 911, was transported to the hospital, and then was arrested and detained by federal officers at the hospital.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/lawyers-us-citizen-shot-ice-agent-shooting-defense/story?id=127180596
2025 November
2025-11-06 During a raid at a Los Angeles Home Depot ICE arrested a US citizen then drove off in the detainee’s car with their 1-year-old in the back. News outlets reported bystanders were yelling at the agents that a child was in the backseat.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-04/ice-border-patrol-dodger-stadium-parking-lot
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/los-angeles-immigration-agents-toddler
2025-11-20 A federal judge dismissed charges against Marimar Martinez after reviewing body camera footage disproving DHS claims.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/doj-drops-charges-2-people-accused-ramming-vehicles/story?id=127714651
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/21/us/marimar-martinez-shooting-case-what-we-know
2025-11-20 Video footage showed ICE in Maryland dragging around 58-year-old Rabbiatu Kuyateh before deporting her to Ghana. She was a US citizen of 30 years.
2026 January
2026-01-08 In Portland, ICE shot two more people, claiming the individuals tried to hit an officer with their vehicle.
2026-01-08 After safety concerns about ICE terrorizing citizens, Minneapolis schools closed.
2026-01-09 One of Bovino’s ICE officers was caught on camera pointing his gun at unarmed protestors.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1948030172765527
2026-01-13 Onlookers and protesters began recording more evidence of ICE agents provoking violence, use of excessive force, using banned chokeholds, and targeting legal observers including president of Minneapolis City Council Elliott Payne.
https://www.propublica.org/article/videos-ice-dhs-immigration-agents-using-chokeholds-citizens
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2026/01/13/ice-chokeholds
2026-01-13 ProPublica published an investigative article finding more than 40 cases of ICE agents using banned chokeholds. Some of these cases involved leaving welts on a 16-year-old, an agent in Los Angeles cutting off breathing to a woman by pressing their knee into her neck until she passed out, and an agent in Massachusetts who choked a man for refusing to leave his one-year-old in the car, sending the man into convulsions and then refusing medical treatment for him.
https://www.propublica.org/article/videos-ice-dhs-immigration-agents-using-chokeholds-citizens
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/16/ice_tactics
2026-01-13 ICE agents dragged a disabled woman out of her car while she was on the way to a doctor appointment. ICE claimed the woman was blocking traffic.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11613125/ice-agents-pull-woman-from-car-minneapolis-video/
2026-01-14 In Santa Ana ICE shot a 21-year-old man in the face and blinded him. The man underwent 6 hours of surgery to remove plastic, metal and glass. The surgeon stated the shrapnel narrowly missed a carotid artery.
2026-01-14 ICE agents deployed flash bangs and tear gas in Minneapolis and hit a vehicle of a family headed home from a basketball game. After the attack, airbags deployed and the vehicle filled with tear gas. A six-month-old went unconscious and stopped breathing.
https://newrepublic.com/post/205376/ice-attack-car-kids-six-month-old-unconscious
2026-01-24 Stephen Miller was implicated of encouraging DHS tactics that contributed to confrontations preceding the death of Alex Pretti.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/26/trump-administration-alex-pretti-shooting-statements
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/politics/stephen-miller-alex-pretti-trump
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/27/trump-stephen-miller-massacre-minnesota-shooting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcpe9YceyyQ
https://newrepublic.com/post/208362/stephen-miller-orders-ice-alex-pretti-death
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/us/stephen-miller-alex-pretti-shooting.html
2026-01-27 ICE agents shot 37-year-old Patrick Schlegel in Arivaca Arizona. Agents claimed he was smuggling immigrants into the country and brandishing a gun.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/person-shot-border-patrol-involved-arizona-rcna256137
2026-01-31 Alberto Castaneda Mondragon was detained by ICE and then later brought to a hospital with at least eight skull fractures and several life-threatening brain bleeds. ICE maintains that he ran himself into a wall.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/31/ice-injury-claim-fuels-tension-at-minnesota-hospital
2026 February
2026-02-13 Former ICE attorney Ryan Schwank left the agency, saying, “”I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution when I joined ICE…I followed it when I resigned…The legally required training program at the ICE academy is deficient, defective, and broken.”
2026-02-16 Two ICE agents who shot a Venezuelan immigrant Julio Cesar Sosa Celles and his cousin Alfredo Alejandro Aljouro were suspended and investigated for lying about the shooting. The agents claimed the victims attacked them with a snow shovel, while Kristi Noem alleged it was “attempted murder of federal law enforcement”. Video did not substantiate, and contradicted, their claims.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8l9jp1z3yo
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/15/us/ice-shooting-dhs-doj-false-statements
2026 April
2026-04-07 Another ICE involved shooting, this time in San Jose California off I-5. DHS claims the alleged gang member weaponized their vehicle and tried to run over an agent.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/07/ice-agents-shooting-california
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50g2cjHJG_E
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/ice-shooting-investigation-interstate-5-stanislaus/4064875/
https://www.ktvu.com/news/dashcam-video-ice-agents-shoot-alleged-gang-member-i-5-california
2026-04-09 ICE shot Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez during a traffic stop, claiming the man tried to hit them with his vehicle. When he was indicted in May of 2026 he stated he attempted to flee only AFTER he had been shot at and “was just scared that he was going to die”.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/03/us/stanislaus-ca-ice-shooting
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/03/us/stanislaus-ca-ice-shooting
APR 9 https://apnews.com/article/ice-shooting-gang-california-arrest-fe4e046ab59b6a6edec20014f37bc76e
2026-04-16 ICE agent Gregory Morgan was charged with two counts of second-degree assault for pointing his weapon at people in Minnesota. The officer was in a rented, unmarked SUV when he pulled up to other drivers and pointed his handgun at them.
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/16/nx-s1-5787958/minnesota-charged-ice-officer-assault-immigration-surge
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/16/ice-agent-assault-charge-minnesota-minneapolis.html
2026-04-17 Acting Director Todd Lyons announced he would resign from ICE effective May 31 2026 after two decades with the agency, amid scrutiny of his agency’s aggressive immigration tactics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqcT9zGKa7g&list=WL&index=2
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/17/g-s1-117780/ice-acting-director-lyons-will-resign-at-end-of-may
2026-04-29 ICE agent Jonathan Ross returned to duty after Renee Nicole Good’s killing.
https://newrepublic.com/post/209615/ice-agent-killed-renee-good-minneapolis-new-job
2026 May
2026-05-02 Police arrested 8 protesters in New York for protesting the violent arrest of a Nigerian man.
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/c8e8w0rnn2do
2026-05-05 DHS closed its internal watchdog offices that track the abuse of immigrants. This came after a Washington Post investigation found an increase in abuse and excessive force carried out on detainees as the Trump administration over-packs detention centers.
https://thehill.com/homenews/5864182-oido-dhs-watchdog-closure/
https://www.commondreams.org/news/dhs-ombudsman-closed
2026 June
2026-06-04 Three armed National Guard soldiers approached, physically assaulted and detained a woman on her own porch.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/video-shows-national-guard-members-150000027.html