{"id":59687,"date":"2025-12-05T18:51:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T23:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=59687"},"modified":"2025-12-05T18:51:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T23:51:18","slug":"why-are-you-doing-this-to-me-im-a-us-citizen-woman-screams-as-federal-agents-drag-her-from-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2025\/12\/05\/why-are-you-doing-this-to-me-im-a-us-citizen-woman-screams-as-federal-agents-drag-her-from-car\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Why are you doing this to me? I&#8217;m a US citizen!&#8217; Woman screams as federal agents drag her from car"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Florida woman was stopped by federal agents on Wednesday, who forcibly removed her from her car despite her screaming that she was a U.S. citizen.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-dominant-color=\"6b6e6d\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"503\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/591936450_1301508872018365_1479716721450746523_n.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59688 not-transparent\" style=\"--dominant-color: #6b6e6d; aspect-ratio:1.1928799975148334;width:482px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/591936450_1301508872018365_1479716721450746523_n.webp 600w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/591936450_1301508872018365_1479716721450746523_n-300x252.webp 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Video of the incident showed the woman, wearing medical scrubs, being pulled from the car and cuffed as agents put her into one of their own vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The woman could be heard screaming, \u201cI\u2019m a U.S. citizen, please help me,\u201d as the agents are seen forcing her to the ground and placing her in handcuffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u201cWhy are you doing this to me?\u201d she yelled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman told reporters with the Miami Herald that, after being pulled over, the woman refused to roll down her window and hand over her driver\u2019s license.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The federal agents placed the woman in a patrol vehicle and searched her car, where they found her driver\u2019s license and confirmed her citizenship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida woman was stopped by federal agents on Wednesday, who forcibly removed her from her car despite her screaming that she was a U.S. citizen. 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