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ICE Faces Scrutiny After Videos Show Force in Colorado and Chicago

Viral bystander videos have prompted fresh demands for accountability from ICE.

Overview

  • Footage from Durango, Colorado, shows an agent grabbing 57-year-old Francy Stagi and throwing her to the ground during a protest outside an ICE office.
  • Separate videos from Melrose Park in the Chicago area show Ricardo Rodríguez pinned by ICE agents and later taken to a hospital with a bloody face under federal custody.
  • DHS says Rodríguez has prior convictions, fled on foot, resisted arrest, was pepper-sprayed, and was punched as a last resort, a version disputed by his family.
  • Relatives say Rodríguez has no criminal record and describe the force used as excessive, intensifying calls for an investigation.
  • In Durango, paramedics and police responded, but the victim says no formal report was completed and the agent has not been publicly identified or disciplined.