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On Friday, The Minnesota Star Tribune reported the accounts of Tippy Amundson, 39, and Heather Zemien, 55. The women said that while handcuffed in the back of an ICE SUV on Thursday in Brooklyn Park, one of the agents in the vehicle began having a seizure while stopped at a red light.
Amundson could hear the agent’s tongue and fluids blocking his airway. She asked to be uncuffed.
“He’s going to stop breathing,” she told them.
[After being uncuffed] Amundson ran around the car and knelt beside the agent, trying to turn him onto his side. She spoke to him calmly, telling him he was safe and that help was coming. She said she was aware that people having seizures can often hear what’s being said around them.
After the agent was transferred to receive professional medical attention, Amundson and Zemien said they were put into another vehicle and driven to the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis.
While at Whipple, a commanding officer informed them of their release.
“We’re releasing you to your counsel and to your state representative,” the officer stated, according to Amundson. “But you need to tell everybody that we treated you kindly.”
On Friday, The Minnesota Star Tribune reported the accounts of Tippy Amundson, 39, and Heather Zemien, 55. The women said that while handcuffed in the back of an ICE SUV on Thursday in Brooklyn Park, one of the agents in the vehicle began having a seizure while stopped at a red light.
Amundson could hear the agent’s tongue and fluids blocking his airway. She asked to be uncuffed.
“He’s going to stop breathing,” she told them.
[After being uncuffed] Amundson ran around the car and knelt beside the agent, trying to turn him onto his side. She spoke to him calmly, telling him he was safe and that help was coming. She said she was aware that people having seizures can often hear what’s being said around them.
After the agent was transferred to receive professional medical attention, Amundson and Zemien said they were put into another vehicle and driven to the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis.
While at Whipple, a commanding officer informed them of their release.
“We’re releasing you to your counsel and to your state representative,” the officer stated, according to Amundson. “But you need to tell everybody that we treated you kindly.”
