\u201cJennifer disagrees with immigration enforcement and decided to commit a few felonies by getting out of her car and punching a trooper in the face,\u201d Uthmeier wrote. <\/p>\n
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Jennifer Cruz was arrested outside Mi Pueblo in Jacksonville on Tuesday morning after allegedly leaping from her car and punching a state trooper in the face during an ICE operation. Attorney General James Uthmeie<\/p>\n
\u201cBut unlike Minnesota, we don\u2019t put up with this nonsense. Not today, Jennifer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Video taken by Mi Pueblo owner Juan Alvarez shows law enforcement officers swarming Cruz on the pavement and placing her in handcuffs.<\/p>\n
\u201cICE agents showed up with the state trooper. They detained a driver \u2014 the person was driving \u2014 and they had an operation going on,\u201d Alvarez told News 4 Jax<\/a>. <\/p>\n \u201cAfter that, they detained another person, and it seems they got into an altercation with that person.<\/p>\n \u201cIt turned violent, and that led to the presence of a lot more police and federal enforcement showing up,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Another shocking video shared on X<\/a> appeared to show Cruz kicking and screaming as officers struggled to get her into a squad car, laughing and taunting police and calling one officer a \u201cweak-ass motherf\u2013ker.\u201d<\/p>\n Footage shows her lying in the back seat before suddenly popping up and kicking the officer who was trying to restrain her.<\/p>\n \u201cDon\u2019t you dare start kicking me!\u201d one officer is heard warning her.<\/p>\n Cruz was then tased as officers finally got her fully inside the car and slammed the door shut. However, her rampage didn\u2019t stop there \u2014 with the footage showing her kicking the cruiser\u2019s roof and the camera that was pointing into the backseat.<\/p>\n The 40-year-old was booked into the Duval County Jail<\/a> on a slew of charges, including multiple counts of battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting officers with violence and threatening harm to officers, among others.<\/p>\n She was released on bond following her arrest and is scheduled to appear in court on Feb. 4.<\/p>\n Gov. Ron DeSantis weighed in on the arrest<\/a> Thursday during a health-related news conference in Jacksonville, warning others considering interference with federal immigration operations to think twice \u2014 while also taking a jab at Minneapolis amid ongoing tensions following the killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent<\/a>. <\/p>\n \u201cThis is not Minneapolis. This is not going to end well for you in Florida,\u201d DeSantis vowed.<\/p>\n \u201cYou have a right to go out there and criticize government policy. You can go out there and protest within respected zones, but the idea that you\u2019re going to assault one of our troopers is unacceptable, and you are going to face consequences as a result of that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A grinning anti-ICE agitator was arrested after she allegedly punched a Florida state trooper during a confrontation with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4864,28,1877,116,118,117,60857,412,21512,4278],"class_list":{"0":"post-121665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-arrests","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-ice","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","13":"tag-jacksonville-news","14":"tag-minneapolis-ice-shooting-2026","15":"tag-ron-desantis","16":"tag-state-troopers","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Jennifer](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Jennifer-Cruz-1.jpg\")
Cruz was booked into the Duval County Jail on multiple charges, including battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting officers with violence, and threatening harm to officers. Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office<\/p>\n