Leftist Agitators Physically Impeded ICE During Virginia Courthouse Arrest
The arrests of the agitators left the locals upset with…ICE.
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan has been in the national spotlight over actions she allegedly took to shield an illegal immigrant from arrest by ICE in mid-April. And after Dugan’s FBI arrest last Friday, at least one other Wisconsin judge, Sawyer County Circuit Judge Monica Isham, stood in solidarity with her, vowing in a letter sent to state judges that she had “no intention of allowing anyone to be taken out of my courtroom by ICE and sent to a concentration camp.”
While judges going full and unabashed Resistance is obviously a deeply disturbing development, leftist agitators initiating physical contact with federal agents is troubling in its own right.
Though it’s not uncommon for woke activists to try and provoke physical altercations with law enforcement, what happened in a Charlottesville, Virginia courthouse last Tuesday saw activists take it in a different direction – by putting their hands on an ICE agent to block him from arresting an illegal immigrant who was attempting to leave the courthouse:
Video shows the moment one of the ICE agents interacting with [Teodoro] Dominguez Rodriguez while two women tried to defend him by standing between him and the official. It’s not known what their relation to Dominguez Rodriguez is.
‘Do not impede me in my lawful duties, that is a crime,’ the agent can be heard telling the women.
One of the women hit back by demanding he showed them a warrant for the arrest, and grabbing the agent by his arms as he closed in on Dominguez Rodriguez.
‘Get off me or I am calling the US attorney and prosecuting for assault on a federal officer,’ the agent warned her, prompting her to raise her arms in the air.
Watch:
🧊@ICEgov at Charlottesville Courthouse. Masked women tangle w/ federal agents. "Do not impede me…or I am calling the US Attorney and prosecuting you for an assault on a federal officer."
Hispanic man had just appeared in hearing for assault. pic.twitter.com/x3tbMTcBw9— C'villeBubble (@CvilleBubble) April 23, 2025
Dominguez-Rodriguez was eventually arrested, which only further enraged the woketivists, who staged a UVA-instigated protest at the courthouse the next day:
“We want to know why the sheriff did nothing while this happened when it’s not legal to be in a courthouse with a face covering and why these people were taken without due process. We want to know if there is a memorandum of understanding between the sheriff and ICE,” said Natalie Aviles, a protestor.
[…]
Frank Dukes, another protester drew emotional parallels to historical events.
“My uncle was picked up by the Nazis. No identification. No charge. Nothing they could do. We see the same thing happening in this country,” said Dukes.
Mr. Dukes is an urban and environmental planning lecturer at UVA, and has a bio that boasts of how the “bulk of my work involves equitable collaboration.” Shockingly, Ms. Aviles, who is an assistant professor of sociology at UVA, left out the inconvenient part about the two female activists who were wearing masks during the incident, as did a UVA law professor, according to the below screengrab:
Curiously, @UVALaw prof Thomas Frampton suggests the federal officer could be charged with a felony. He ignores the citizens in masks–who were there for what?– to focus on the Fed.https://t.co/smSA2A3S5S
— C’villeBubble (@CvilleBubble) April 24, 2025
This disruption at the Albemarle County Courthouse appears to have been instigated by @UVA's chapter of Dissenters, who shared images of officers and then directed their followers to the courthouse.
Is this what obstruction of justice looks like? https://t.co/p2SibOETuy pic.twitter.com/Zgj6MNCOGE
— Stu (@thestustustudio) April 24, 2025
The Public Defenders’ Office was also “concerned,” according to CBS 19 News:
“If people who are summoned to court are going to be arrested, a lot less people are going to be willing to come to court and that’s not just in a criminal context… not because they’re intimidated by civilians but because they’re intimidated by the federal government,” said public defender Nicholas Reppucci.
Watch:
🚨Protesters waved signs at Charlottesville Courthouse where @ICEgov arrested illegal immigrants. "These people are welcome in our community," said one.
Two others speaking in video, Frank Dukes & Natalie Aviles, are UVA professors. pic.twitter.com/1Co3z3sZoX— C'villeBubble (@CvilleBubble) April 24, 2025
Other local “leaders” are also expressing outrage, not with the activists but with ICE:
Meanwhile, the manner of Tuesday’s detention continues to draw concern. Albemarle Commonwealth’s Attorney Jim Hingeley said he has launched an investigation.
“I am grateful that no one was hurt in this operation,” Hingeley told The Daily Progress via email, “but I am also greatly concerned that arrests carried out in this manner could escalate into a violent confrontation, because the person being arrested or bystanders might resist what appears on its face to be an unlawful assault and abduction.”
Charlottesville’s delegation to the General Assembly in Richmond is also demanding answers.
Guess who is a supporter of Hingeley’s? You’ll never believe this: George Soros.
The uproar generated by the incident prompted Albemarle County Sheriff Chan Bryant to issue a statement, which read in part:
When the agents were presenting their identification and credential none of the agents were wearing any face coverings. The agents informed the bailiffs at that time that they were there to detain two individuals who had court cases in the Albemarle County General District Court. The federal agents showed the bailiff their paperwork and photographs of the individuals they were looking for and waited outside the courtroom until the conclusion of each case.
“At no time was this a raid of the courthouse,” Bryant also wrote. “These individuals were identified by the federal agents and taken into custody with paperwork in hand for them.”
As for the two agitators who tried to stop ICE from arresting Dominguez-Rodriguez, ICE confirmed in a statement that the two women will be prosecuted:
ICE and federal law enforcement partners coordinated a lawful arrest with the Albemarle General District Court of an illegally present, violent Honduran alien with multiple arrests for assault and battery as well as an outstanding order of protection against him. Two bystanders unsuccessfully attempted to obstruct enforcement efforts, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office intends to prosecute those individuals.
Throw the book at them.
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Several questions: Who put up these people to do this? Will the federal government be able to empanel a jury that will be unbiased? Who will be financing the legal expenses of perps? Are the initials of the puppet master GS?
To answer your questions:
‣ democrats put them up to this with their continue rhetoric against ICE.
‣ Not a problem. Just treat them like the J6 prisoners were treated and leave them in jail until indictments are issued and a jury can be empaneled.
‣ The taxpayers as they will have Public Defenders.
‣ No, the initials are AOC, CS, MW, JBP, and the rest that have agitated against ICE.
That’s what batons and pepper spray are for. These bozos.
the leftist fuhrers ( they currently are jostling for prominence) have showed them the way and the FACTS that judges will not jail them for their violence against civility
The chief judge should have held the protesters in contempt for their behavior. Hold them in jail until they apologize for disrupting the court.
They didn’t disrupt any court. This did not take place in a courtroom. The officers waited outside the courtroom until the hearing was over, and only then arrested the suspects.
The “activists'” only possible defense is that they honestly didn’t believe that what they witnessed was a lawful arrest, and instead believed they were preventing a kidnapping. That would be hard to convince a jury of, unless it were already predisposed to let them off.
Milhouse, I think you are right more often than you are wrong, but I wonder if you are right that it is a defense to interfering with a lawful arrest that you actually thought you were witnessing a kidnapping. Even if true, I doubt that that would get you off.
This is getting fun.
Grabbing the ICE agent’s arms isn’t just obstruction, it’s battery on LEO. Protest doesn’t make felonies acceptable.
Arrest the “protesters”, charge them with everything possible. We need to make it clear that collaborating with the invaders is a crime.
arresting those protesters will not happen as long as Jeff Sessions in a skirt is the AG,…OMG, Trump can really pick ’em
And what would Garland have done? GFYS.
Indeed. Unless they honestly believed the agent was really a criminal attempting to kidnap the person, and it was their duty to prevent it. That would be a difficult story for a normal jury to swallow, but a biased jury might.
agreed – though we have seen numerous highly biased juries recently.
See above. Even if a biased jury swallowed it, I don’t think it is a defense. Of course, a “Not guilty” verdict can be based on anything so it would be hard to tell if it worked.
Arrest these punks and throw the book at them. That’s the only way that they’ll learn.
The Dhimmi-crat agitator-thugs have become emboldened by decades of kid-gloves treatment by law enforcement, DOJ and FBI, under the vile and wretched Obama and Biden regimes.
And make sure they’re not prosecuted in a DC-area court.
If they’re facing federal charges they must be tried in the same district where the crime happened.
Defense can request change of venue,
prosecution cant request a change of venue (except possibly in very rare cases) which I am not aware of.
Democrat’s world view is completely backwards.
To hell with it. If they assault an officer they should be tased then cuffed and stuffed into a cop car. If they piss themselves, they should be mocked mercilessly for that as well. Either way, make it a goddamn expensive mistake because lawyers are not cheap, and they should need tons of them.
Tased? Oh heck no. Should have been a baton strike, then a grounded, face-down cuffing.
To the ICE agent, you were being far too patient. The moment she lays a hand on you, she gets arrested. I say that as a retired police sergeant and there is no tolerance on people interfering with our duties. You touch a cop. you go to jail. Otherwise, great work on arrest of the illegal alien, stay safe, God Speed.
Been there, done that. Obstruction.
We want to know if there is a memorandum of understanding between the sheriff and ICE
It is the policy of the VA state gov’t to cooperate with ICE.
And, of course, “aiding and abetting” is a crime, regardless of whether someone is required to actually cooperate.
the Nazis…. We see the same thing happening in this country
Oh, get over yourself, you ignorant bint. We are NOT seeing the same thing. This guy was guilty of crimes, specifically entering the country illegally. And the control of our borders is a moral law, unlike the ones you would undoubtedly vomit forth to make your comparison.
Is this what obstruction of justice looks like?
Yes. Yes, it is.
a lot less people
Fewer, dingleberry. Now we know why you’re a public defender.
“These people are welcome in our community,”
No, they’re not. If your community didn’t have the ability to travel freely to the rest of the country, I would gladly let them all move there, but that isn’t how it works. If you want to live with them, move to their country.
UVA professors
Gov Youngkin, you know what to do. This is NOT covered by any sort of “academic freedom.”
what appears on its face to be an unlawful assault and abduction
Bullscat, you liar. (And, BTW, I am against officers covering their faces in almost any situation.)
Throw the book at them.
Amen.
a lot less people
Fewer, dingleberry. Now we know why you’re a public defender.
Haha! That bugs me too!
Hmm, maybe she meant they’re shorter, on average, than most people 🙂
“Physically Impeded ICE Agents”
I hope that the physical impeders were physically impeded—with handcuffs and bars.
BOOKEM, DANO!!
“…the sheriff did nothing while this happened when it’s not legal to be in a courthouse with a face covering …”
BWHAHAHAHAHA.
Oh, sure. NOW these marxist meat puppets are incensed about the lunacy of masks.
Arrest them, too.
Face masks are *required* in VA courthouses? I think I’ve seen one face mask in public around here (Kansas) in the last three months, and that was an elderly overweight person in an electric scooter with several family members around her (unmasked).
Here’s my prediction. The activists charged with obstruction will demand a jury trial. Given the political leanings of the county (home of UVA), there will be jury nullification and they will skate. (It only takes one juror voting “not guilty.”) Just as the notorious weather underground terrorist, Bill Ayers, once said of his crimes, “Guilty as hell, free as a bird.” I predict the same result for Judge Hannah Dugan in deep-lefty Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Left-wingers have the “Get out of jail free” card as long as they break the law for woke causes.
They were arrested under federal charges. (So was Dugan.) They can’t be removed too far, but they can be shifted from NorVa courtrooms. I’d slide them on out to the Shenandoah Valley, myself….
Also, there’s a smaller jury pool in the DC area nowadays, after The Trump Purge Of Useless Tax-suckers of 2025.
“If people who are summoned to court are going to be arrested, a lot less people are going to be willing to come to court”
That’s the funny thing. It’s not optional. Don’t show up and they come find you. Then they put you somewhere while you wait for court.
When the agents were presenting their identification and credential none of the agents were wearing any face coverings. The agents informed the bailiffs at that time that they were there to detain two individuals who had court cases in the Albemarle County General District Court. The federal agents showed the bailiff their paperwork and photographs of the individuals they were looking for and waited outside the courtroom until the conclusion of each case.
Otherwise, just like Nazi Germany. I’m sure Einsatzgruppen operatives always had the paperwork identifying their victims with specificity, with photos of them in-hand, and alerted the local authorities of the purpose of their presence within those authorities’ jurisdictions.
Yes, I was struck by Karen there acting as if SHE had the authority to demand a warrant from the agent.
This ain’t a Chippendale’s show, princess.
I’m glad they touched the agents. Assault. Arrest them. If they impeded their lawful business, arrest them too. Quit f’g around. Be civil and kind until it’s time not to be and then take prisoners. I like many others am fed up with this crap and the double standards.
If they beef up the teams serving these warrants then maybe. What we don’t want is a beat down of two leftist Karens nor video of it. That will spark more problems. IMO, these guys were correct in showing restraint though it is frustrating to see people deliberately obstruct, commit assault and not be put into cuff right there. Treating the removal operations as a variant of a counter insurgency is wiser long-term. One important rule of counter insurgency is don’t create more insurgents if it can be reasonably avoided. Here it could, tomorrow it may not.
Agreed. Have to set boundaries though and touching is a clear boundary.
What we don’t want is a beat down of two leftist Karens nor video of it.
While I understand your sentiment, I disagree. That’s what I voted for – no more namby-pamby pretty-please with these folks. And that counter-insurgency method doesn’t actually work – not anywhere we’ve tried it.
Warrants are for arresting people for past crimes. Officers do not need a warrant to arrest anyone for a crime they just committed, or are in the act of committing (like the warning to this woman that she would be arrested for assaulting an officer).
Illegals are always in the act of committing a crime, and they can always be arrested for it.
As for Biden’s illegal automatic mass issuance at the border of court dates 10 years away for fake asylum claims, Trump should issue an XO in accordance with Tyrus’ idea last night that claimants should be required to wait for their court dates OUTSIDE the country.
Of course those dates are likely to be pushed back another 10 years, and another, and another, but as the saying goes “turnabout is fair play.”
The “Open Society” is very, very “open”.
Why would any federal officer have to show that busybody lefty Karen a specific warrant that didn’t involve HER? He should have cuffed her to something and left her there all day..
Body cams make it harder to assault law enforcement and then play victim. But the longing for martyrdom cannot be resisted indefinitely, so more violence is coming.