ICE Officer Relieved of Duty for ‘Unacceptable’ Conduct After Shoving Woman to the Ground in Viral Video

‘The officer’s conduct in this video is unacceptable and beneath the men and women of ICE,’ DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said.

The badge of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Hawthorne, Calif., on March 1, 2020. Lucy Nicholson/Reuters

Officials from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer seen on video shoving an Ecuadorian woman to the floor has been relieved of his current duties, and an investigation has been launched.

The footage, which went viral on social media, showed the officer pushing a woman into a wall and then to the ground at the immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan, New York, on Sept. 25.

DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the officer in question has been suspended in the wake of the incident.