ICE agent pulls a gun on a U.S. citizen in Bailey’s Crossroads
A video taken by a woman who was pulled over by ICE in Bailey’s Crossroads on Aug. 10 is going viral.
In the video posted by Carolina Molina on Instagram, an ICE agent with his face covered points a gun at her and yells, “You almost ran us over.”
Molina, a U.S. citizen and mother, yells back, “That’s a lie. You are full of s**t.” She tells them she has a dashcam recording the incident, and they let her go.
The ICE agents did not arrest her, but the Department of Homeland Security later said she could face criminal prosecution.
In a report on the incident on Fox5, Molina said, “In that situation, when you have a gun pointed to your head, everybody reacts differently.”
Molina told reporter Homa Bash she is a licensed professional counselor who does psychological evaluations for lawyers in immigration cases.
She was dropping off her card at several law offices off Columbia Pike at about 3 p.m. when she came across ICE agents attempting to arrest two men. “She rolled down her window and told the agents what they were doing was wrong,” Bash reported.
Molina started to go back to the office she had just left but realized she didn’t want ICE to follow her. She made a U-turn, and that’s when the interaction with ICE happened, Fox5 reports. “It was getting very aggressive very quickly.”
When she pulled out her phone and started recording, Molina said, “That’s when the story changed,” and they accused her of trying to run them over. “I never tried to run you over,” she told them. They threatened to arrest her. “I told them I’m a U.S. citizen and they said it doesn’t matter.”
“I understand how these situations can get so crazy to where people lose their lives,” she told Fox5. “I have kids and a husband and parents and brothers. I’m not going to put myself in a situation like that.”
In response to a media inquiry, the Department of Homeland Security said ICE was conducting targeted immigration enforcement when “an anti-ICE agitator began to drive her car in circles around our ICE officers and then attempted to harm officers by weaponizing her vehicle against them – all in an attempt to help illegal aliens get away.”
“Fearing for their safety, ICE officers conducted a vehicle stop of the driver,” DHS said. “Necessary background information of the driver was taken and she could face criminal prosecution of her actions.”
Rep. Don Beyer, responding to the video, posted on X: “My office has been in contact with the woman who recorded this video of an ICE agent drawing a gun on her. She is a Northern Virginia native and a mother.”
“While I am relieved that she is safe, the habitual dishonesty and dangerous and unjustified escalation seen in this video matches what we have seen from ICE agents across the country,” Beyer stated. “This kind of misconduct and threat of force against members of our communities cannot be tolerated. I will be demanding answers and consequences.”