A top official at the Department of Homeland Security has been caught posting totally inaccurate information about the violent arrest of an American teen girl.
Last month, the Daily Beast exposed how DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin—the most senior communications official to Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem—had falsely smeared a mom who lost her baby while locked up by ICE as a wanted killer.
This time McLaughlin has been caught claiming that footage of a teenage girl being violently detained on Friday was year-old video of Chicago Police Department detaining a burglar.
The terrified U.S. citizen was, in fact, detained on Friday in the Chicago suburb of Hoffman Estates, which is not in the jurisdiction of the Chicago PD.
The officer, who swung the girl onto the floor before kneeling on her, was wearing a DHS Enforcement and Removals Operations (ERO) flak jacket.
After the video of the horrifying altercation was posted on social media, McLaughlin reposted it, writing, “Imagine being so desperate to demonize law enforcement you post a video from a burglary arrest Chicago Police made over a year ago. This isn’t even ICE.”
However, within hours, McLaughlin’s latest attempt to misinform the public had completely unravelled.
Firstly, an analysis of the video by the Daily Beast revealed that it featured a Hoffman Estates Police car.
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