MANHATTAN (CN) — Millions of people saw the moments leading up to Maria Tumba Huamani’s ICE arrest in New York City.
On Sept. 30, the 20-year-old asylum-seeker from Peru was leaving her routine hearing at 26 Federal Plaza, Manhattan’s top immigration courthouse, where a judge had just set another asylum hearing for next year.
On her way out, three masked federal agents boarded the elevator alongside her. A photojournalist, amNY’s Dean Moses, tried hopping on too, but the officers swore at him and shoved him back into the hallway. In the scuffle, agents pushed two more reporters to the ground. One of them, L. Vural Elibol of Turkish news agency Anadolu Ajansi, appeared to hit his head on the way down and had to be hospitalized…