A persistent symptom of ABC News’s Trump derangement is the overriding need to depict all resistance to Trump policy as virtuous, and anyone suffering the consequences of such resistance as victims, even when the law is clearly not on their side. Their insane coverage of a recent viral video proves this.
DAVID MUIR: Now to disturbing images tonight showing ICE agents dragging a woman from her car in Florida. She is heard screaming for help, telling authorities, “I am a U.S. citizen.” She was placed in handcuffs. She was a U.S. citizen- and what Homeland Security is now saying. Here is Victor Oquendo with the video tonight.
VICTOR OQUENDO: Tonight, dramatic video showing a woman being pulled from a car during a Border Patrol operation in Key Largo, Florida, screaming she is a U.S. citizen. The woman pulled over during a traffic stop yesterday morning. Video capturing her struggling with law enforcement, who then pick her up and carry her to a grassy area where she is handcuffed.
FEMALE: Stop it.
OQUENDO: Despite screaming she is a citizen.
FEMALE: I am a U.S. citizen! Please help me! This is unfair! Why are you doing this to me?
OQUENDO: The woman is restrained and carried into an unmarked vehicle. The Department of Homeland Security telling ABC News the woman was driving her boyfriend's car who is an undocumented immigrant, stating: “she was removed from the vehicle and briefly held while her identity was confirmed. She was promptly released once her identity was confirmed.” David, that video that shows the woman pulled from the vehicle was filmed by a Miami Herald reporter. DHS confirmed she is, in fact, a U.S. citizen. David.
MUIR: Victor Oquendo, live in Florida. Victor, thank you.
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