A confrontation captured on video between a woman who shouted insults at Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents conducting immigration enforcement action in Northern Virginia escalated when one of the officers pointed a gun at her on Monday.
A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson described the woman in a statement as "an anti-ICE agitator" who drove her car "in circles around our ICE officers and then attempted to harm officers by weaponizing her vehicle against them—all in an attempt to help illegal aliens get away."
The woman, Carolina Molina, is a licensed mental health therapist who was visiting immigration lawyers in Bailey's Crossroads for her work when she saw ICE agents taking people into custody, she said at a news conference Wednesday.
Two Latino men were being handcuffed and escorted to an unmarked vehicle by the ICE agents, she told CNN affiliate WUSA in an interview. The encounter is not visible on camera.
"So, I rolled down my window and was like, 'you guys are messed up,'" Molina told WUSA.
Molina said that she saw more agents as she continued to the attorney's office.
Video from her dashboard camera shows she yelled, "You're a hoe" and "you're f**ked up" to the agents.
Carolina Molina speaks about her encounter with ICE agents at a news conference on Wednesday. - CNN
Molina said she turned her car around to avoid drawing attention to the attorney's office "where possibly immigrants could be," according to an Instagram post in which she shared the dash cam footage.
"I decided to pull into a parking spot, pull out, and just go on my merry way when I got blocked in by one of the ICE agents," she said at the Wednesday news conference.