BREAKING🚨 A young woman was DRAGGED across the pavement outside a Newark ICE jail, her shirt pulled off, screaming for help. The nurse who tried to help was THROWN by ICE agents - leaving her with a concussion, three meniscus tears, and a fractured kneecap.
Norma Bowe is a registered nurse, a grandmother, and a public health professor at Kean University who has parked a mobile clinic outside Delaney Hall in Newark for the past year, giving out blood pressure checks, first aid, food, water, baby formula and blankets to families visiting people locked inside. She started after a student's husband was detained there, about a week before that student's graduation.
On Memorial Day, May 25, she was asked to help someone hurt near a secondary gate. Three days earlier, roughly 300 detainees inside had launched a hunger strike over conditions. Agents were firing rubber bullets and pepper spray into the crowd outside.
Around 1 p.m., wearing a bright red stethoscope, Bowe saw agents dragging a young woman along the ground. "She was being dragged, arms over her head, and her whole shirt came off," Bowe said. "She was yelling: 'Help me. Help me.'"
Bowe moved toward her. One masked agent grabbed the back of her shirt, a second came from her right, and she "flew through the air and crashed to the ground, bouncing once," according to the claim, head on the concrete sidewalk, lower body on the asphalt.
An MRI found the fractured kneecap and three medial meniscus tears. She was also diagnosed with post-concussive symptoms and whiplash. Two months on, she still has headaches, trouble sleeping, and pain around her left eye.
Members of the public helped her. The agents and the other federal officers standing there did not.
"What went through my head was Alex Pretti, the nurse who was killed in Minneapolis, trying to help somebody up from the ground," Bowe said.
Two days later she was back at the clinic, facial abrasions still visible.
The ACLU of New Jersey filed a $500,000 claim on July 29 alleging assault, battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress. It is one of 54 filed across 17 states and Washington, D.C. Her lawyers say photographs exist, but the agents' masks make identifying them difficult.
DHS did not answer the allegations, pointing instead to its statement from that day calling the crowd "rioters" and saying officers used "the minimum amount of force necessary."
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