Overview

• Video and witnesses describe masked federal agents pushing journalists in a public hallway and elevator at 26 Federal Plaza on Sept. 30, with Anadolu video journalist L. Vural Elibol transported to a hospital on a stretcher.
• amNewYork’s Dean Moses says agents grabbed and shoved him out of an elevator as he tried to photograph an arrest, and video shows another agent shoving freelance photographer Olga Fedorova to the floor.
• A nurse treated Elibol at the scene before paramedics arrived, and HuffPost reported he was later discharged from New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
• DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin says officers were making the arrest of a Peruvian national, were swarmed by agitators and press, repeatedly ordered people back, and points to prior threats to the building and a recent Dallas ICE office shooting.
• Journalists on scene say agents did not set clear boundaries or indicate an arrest was underway, while elected Democrats including New York Gov. Kathy Hochul condemned the use of force at the Manhattan immigration court.