NEW YORK CITY (WABC) — Linda Wolff is 72 years old and she is vehemently anti-ICE. She was maced in the face in Upper Manhattan just days ago, but was back out on Friday night — this time in New Jersey.<\/p>\n
Video shows an ICE agent macing Wolff during an ICE operation. She took the video as she was on the receiving end of the mace.<\/p>\n
“The doctor said that I have acute laryngitis and I need to get scoped because it’s too low for him to see – from this? – from the mace,” anti-ICE protester Linda Wolff said.<\/p>\n
Wolff was at Delaney Hall Detention Center on Friday to support detainees and protest ICE.<\/p>\n
She told Eyewitness News that on July 30th she rushed to Inwood after hearing about an ICE operation.<\/p>\n
An ICE vehicle had a flat tire and was being towed.<\/p>\n
Wolff says she confronted the tow truck driver, and that’s when the agent approached her.<\/p>\n
“They maced me, but I was so high on adrenaline that I just kept going. And then I didn’t realize how maced I was until later,” Wolff said.<\/p>\n
Several minutes later, two NYPD officers arrived on the scene.<\/p>\n
In the video, they can be heard asking the agent for ID.<\/p>\n
The agent then responded, “We don’t have to,” and drove off.<\/p>\n
New York State passed a new law this year called the Bivens Act.<\/p>\n
It allows someone to sue federal officers in state court for money damages when the officer violates their constitutional rights.<\/p>\n
Wolff will be the first person to sue under this new law.<\/p>\n
“The video says everything. I mean I don’t even have to say anything. I didn’t do anything,” Wolff said.<\/p>\n
Eyewitness News has reached out to DHS for comment.<\/p>\n
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