"Within a few moments of arriving at the parking lot, they were shoved to the ground by agents, pepper sprayed, thrown in a van and hauled away."
"I'm not a gun person, but the guns were really big. They weren't just like standard police pistols, Valentine said. And so I started recording."
"I say, 'Don't shove my fucking girlfriend,' and he shoves me, Valentine told the site, and then then it evolves really fast from there. Like I have pepper spray in my eyes. It's all over my body. And they're putting handcuffs on both of us."
Alice Valentine and Sofia Martin, both queer transgender U.S. citizens, went to St. Cloud's Star City Mall after learning ICE agents were present. ICE agents exited a vehicle armed with large guns, prompting Valentine to record. An agent shoved Martin, Valentine intervened, and both were shoved to the ground, pepper-sprayed, handcuffed, placed in a van with three others, and taken to ICE headquarters at the Whipple Building in Minneapolis. Each received one bottle of water and no treatment for pepper spray. Agents questioned them separately, and an agent asked Martin about her genitalia and gender-confirmation surgery.
Read at Advocate.com
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