'No excuse' for immigration agents' excess use of force, says former DHS head Napolitano
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🗓️ 3 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | In a forum on federal agents' use of force in the president's immigration crackdown, |
| 0:05.5 | Democratic lawmakers heard from Americans directly impacted. |
| 0:09.1 | That included the brothers of Renee Good, shot and killed in Minneapolis last month. |
| 0:14.3 | Marimar Martinez shot five times by Border Patrol agents in Chicago last fall, |
| 0:19.6 | and Alia Rahman, dragged from her car by agents in agents in Chicago last fall, and Alia Rahman dragged from her car by agents |
| 0:23.3 | in January in Minneapolis. Ice agents said they'd instructed Rahman to move her car. The administration |
| 0:29.2 | has claimed that Good and Martinez threatened agents with their cars. Charges against Martinez |
| 0:34.8 | were later dropped. Here's just some of what they shared. |
| 0:38.3 | The completely surreal scenes taking place on the streets of Minneapolis are beyond explanation. |
| 0:48.3 | This is not just a bad day or a rough week or isolated incidents. |
| 0:58.4 | These encounters with federal agents are changing the community and changing many lives, |
| 1:05.6 | including ours forever. |
| 1:07.6 | I struggle with the memories of the day, the initial swerving into me by Agent Exum, the shots ringing out, and the burning sensation as the bullets ripped through my skin and body. |
| 1:18.6 | I had seven bullet holes in my body. |
| 1:21.6 | I remember the agents rushing the nurses to finish up so they could take me with them. |
| 1:26.6 | I still felt dizzy. I was not able to fully up so they could take me with them. I still felt dizzy. |
| 1:28.3 | I was not able to fully process what had happened to me. |
| 1:31.3 | Then the glass of the passenger side window flew across my face. |
| 1:37.3 | I yelled, I'm disabled at the hands grabbing at me, And an agent said, too late. |
| 1:50.0 | No DHS officials appeared at today's forum. For more on all of this, I'm joined now by Janet Napolitano. She served as Homeland Security Secretary under President Obama. She's also |
| 1:55.1 | served as Arizona's governor and as attorney general. Secretary Napolitano, welcome back to the |
| 2:00.7 | News Hour. Thank you for joining us. |
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