Woman caught in viral video trying to stop ICE officers launches fundraiser: ‘I am living in fear’
Story by Oliver O'Connell • 7h
A woman at the center of a viral video in which neighbors in Worcester, Massachusetts, banded together in an attempt to thwart an operation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to detain a family has launched a fundraiser.
Writing on GoFundMe, Augusta Clara, who is believed to be of Brazilian descent, says that she is the mother seen in the now-viral video recorded on the morning of Thursday, May 8, on Eureka Street in the New England city.
Explaining the background to the chaotic events that unfolded that day, she writes: “Everything began the day before, when ICE arrested my partner — the father of my 3-month-old son — while he was driving to work.”
“He had committed no crime. His only ‘mistake’ was honking at a car that had cut him off. That vehicle turned out to be an undercover ICE car, and agents decided to arrest him,” she says.
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