Masked Agents Drag Patient Out of Medical Center~NYPD Might Have Helped
ICE at hospital: Masked agents drag man from medical center in Brooklyn, New Yorkers and cops injured in pepper spray chaos An investigation is underway Sunday after chaos erupted outside a hospital in Brooklyn late on Saturday night when masked ICE agents brought a man there after arresting him in an apparent enforcement operation. Word of the man’s arrest and hospitalization quickly spread, bringing scores of protesters to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center on Saturday night just before 10 p.m. A number of protesters and several NYPD officers were injured after a law enforcement source said an ICE agent unleashed pepper spray on the crowd during the protest. Meanwhile, the NYPD is facing questions about its participation in the incident after a photograph circulated online showing a masked ICE agent and an NYPD officer together with a detained man inside the hospital. According to eyewitnesses and sources, it all began at the Bushwick hospital at around 9:43 p.m. on May 2. ...
