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Moreta-Galarza is an immigrant from Ecuador who has been living in Coney Island since last year. Speaking in Spanish, she said the government routinely beat people in her home country. “I didn’t think I’d come here to the United States and the same thing would happen to me.”

“I began recording and captured the agent barking back at the woman. “Adios,” he said, over and over, pressing toward her as if warning her to back away. When she didn’t, he grabbed her. The rest — including her children’s screams — has been memorialized online.”

“At the end of the hallway, I saw the woman, Monica Moreta-Galarza, standing in front of an agent. She was crying because her husband had been detained. She told the agent she was afraid her husband would be hurt. She wanted to go with him.”

“When I emerged from the elevator on the 14th floor, I heard a woman’s pleas. She sounded terrified. I walked around the corner to see what was happening.”

“During that time, I’d seen ICE drag several immigrants away from their families, all of them sobbing and pleading with the officers not to separate them from their loved ones.

But what happened Thursday was a shocking escalation.”

Till, an investigative reporter from Germany, arrived in the U.S. just eight weeks ago for a fellowship with @propublica.org.

“I’d been alarmed by videos of masked ICE agents sweeping immigrants off the street, scenes I never thought I’d see in the United States.”

I remember the escaped red panda! It was spotted in Adams Morgan!

They’ve been practicing since kindergarten. Back then his school was by the National Zoo so the drill was a tiger escaped and the kids were trained to hide, stay still and be really quiet.

He also says that at the start of every school year, he maps out the building for short cuts not only to get to class faster but also so he can find good places to hide. “Just in case.”