ICE officer relieved of duties after shoving woman at NYC courthouse

A federal immigration officer was relieved of his duties Friday and is under investigation after video published on social media showed him shoving a woman to the floor in the hallway of an immigration courthouse in Manhattan on Thursday, officials said. The incident occurred at 26 Federal Plaza in lower Manhattan after federal agents arrested a man who had attended a routine immigration hearing, witnesses and footage show.

Videos circulated online show the woman and a young girl clinging to the man as officers escorted him away. The footage then shows an officer, later identified only as a member of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, pushing the woman through a cluster of photographers and into a wall before she falls to the floor. The woman was taken to a hospital, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander and other eyewitnesses said. It is not clear from the videos whether there was other physical contact between the officer and the woman before she was shoved.

Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, called the officer's conduct unacceptable and beneath the men and women of ICE and said he is being relieved of current...