Overview

• Video from 26 Federal Plaza on Sept. 30 shows masked officers grabbing reporters near an elevator, with Anadolu journalist L. Vural Elibol later taken out on a stretcher in a neck brace.
• amNewYork’s Dean Moses was pushed out of an elevator and freelance photographer Olga Fedorova was shoved in the hallway, according to footage and witnesses at the scene.
• DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin defended the operation, saying officers were swarmed by agitators and press and citing prior threats to the building in explaining heightened security posture.
• New York officials, including Gov. Kathy Hochul, condemned the use of force against immigrants and reporters and urged accountability for the agents involved.
• The confrontation adds to a series of recent clashes at 26 Federal Plaza, including a separate incident caught on video last week in which an officer knocked an Ecuadorian woman to the floor.