Cross Cultural Solidarity

History in the Service of Solidarity

ICE: Assaults on Protestors, Witnesses, & Bystanders

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This page is part of a resource collection: Tracking ICE During the Second Trump Administration.

See also: The ICE Murders of Renee Good & Alex Pretti.

Resources

Cross Cultural Solidarity:  Protest Rights & Safety Tips.

Physicians for Human Rights: “Less-lethal” crowd-control weapons when misused can cause serious injury, disability, and death.

News: 2026

January 12.   Max Nesterak: U.S. Border Patrol agent knees man in face in Minneapolis as other agents hold him down.

January 13.   Ruben Vives & Itzel Luna: Anti-ICE protester blinded by federal agent during demonstration in Santa Ana, family says.

January 13.   Nicole Foy & McKenzie Funk: We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing.

January 18.   Stephanie Saul: In Minneapolis, a Pattern of Misconduct Toward Protesters: Legal and criminal justice experts said a ruling by a federal judge last week revealed conduct by immigration agents that evokes the civil rights era.

January 21.   Maya Young: US court allows ICE to arrest and pepper-spray peaceful protesters in Minnesota.

January 29.   Rachel Leingang & Maanvi Singh: Minneapolis ICE watchers face violence, teargas and arrests. They keep showing up. Bystanders say they are determined to keep recording federal agents’ actions: ‘There will be absolutely no accountability unless people are documenting.’

January 29.   Neel Dhanesha: What a safety expert thinks journalists should know about “less than lethal” rounds and chemical irritants used by ICE.

February 3.   Roque Planas: Judge temporarily bans ICE from using teargas and projectiles on protesters in Portland: Ruling comes after agents fired teargas, pepper balls and rubber bullets into peaceful protest that included children.

February 21.   Sam Levin: Sam Levin: DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court: String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators.’

News: 2025

July 8.  Frankie Solinsky Duryea: Video: ICE agents drive SUV through protesters at S.F.

immigration court. Immigration agents clashed with protesters, who were trying to stop an arrest, in San Francisco’s most violent ICE encounter of 2025.

October 4.   Siri Chilukuri: Body slamming, teargas and pepper balls: viral videos show Ice using extreme force in Chicago. A facility in Broadview, a mostly Black suburb, has become the site of escalation and ‘targeted attacks’ on protesters.

October 28.   Andrea Cavallier: US citizen, 67, ‘has ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents after being dragged out of car while driving home into street they’d blocked off.

December 19.   Sam Levin: FBI opened domestic terrorism investigations into anti-ICE activity across US.

October 13.   Meg Anderson: Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent.

October 22.   Dani Anguiano: LA TikTok creator streaming ICE raids charged with assault after being shot: Carlitos Ricardo Parias remained hospitalized after he was shot in the elbow by federal agents during arrest.

October 23.   Anna Bauman: Federal agents used ‘Low Roll’ stun grenades on immigration protesters. What are they?

November 19.   Block Club Chicago: Feds Used Chemical Weapons On Chicagoans At Least 49 Times — Even After Judge Said To Stop.

November 21.   Julia Coin: ICE video shows officers planned to ‘smash’ into Charlotte man filming Border Patrol.

November 25.   ProPublica: Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters.