"A visual journalist hit his head on the floor after ICE agents pushed one journalist off a public elevator and shoved another journalist to the floor, according to video and witnesses."

"NEW YORK — Federal agents grabbed and shoved journalists in a hallway outside a New York City immigration court on Tuesday, sending one to the hospital in the latest clash between authorities enforcing President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and members of the public seeking to observe and document their actions.

A visual journalist identified as L. Vural Elibol of the Turkish news agency Anadolu hit his head on the floor at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pushed one journalist off a public elevator and shoved another journalist to the floor, according to video and witnesses.

A bystander held Elibol’s head and a nurse treated him until an ambulance arrived, witnesses said. Video showed him in a neck brace as paramedics wheeled him out of the building on a stretcher. The other journalists, amNewYork police bureau chief Dean Moses and Olga Fedorova, a freelance photographer whose clients include The Associated Press, were not seriously injured."

Michael R. Sisak reports for the Associated Press September 30, 2025. [2]

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"‘Free Speech For Me, Not For Thee’: How Trump’s Censorship Blitz Is Splitting The Right" (Guardian) [4]