Black Panther Member Stops ICE Agents From Detaining Black American Woman

Описание: Black Panther Member Stops ICE Agents From Detaining Black American Woman

Federal body-worn camera footage captures a morning sidewalk encounter in Oakland turning into a constitutional standoff—revealing how assumption, profiling, and community intervention can collide in real time. What begins as a routine walk to the BART station escalates into a public detention attempt that is stopped not by policy—but by resistance.

The footage opens on International Boulevard near the Fruitvale BART station at 7:47 AM on March 15, 2025. Early spring sunlight reflects off storefront windows. Metal security grates are halfway raised. Commuters move with coffee cups in hand. A train rumbles overhead.

It is an ordinary Oakland morning.

Tanya Morrison, a 42-year-old Black woman dressed in business attire, walks toward the station with earbuds in and a shoulder bag at her side. She is headed to work downtown.

Three federal immigration agents exit an unmarked vehicle.

Their vests are clearly marked: “POLICE ICE.”

The lead agent steps into her path. Identification is requested. Her immigration status is questioned.

Confused, she removes one earbud. She explains calmly that she was born in Detroit. She is an American citizen. She is walking to work.

The agents insist they need documentation.

No warrant is shown.
No tip is referenced.
No specific suspicion is articulated.

The tone shifts.

“Ma’am, you are being detained for immigration verification.”

Her voice tightens. “I’m American. I was born in Detroit.”

Within seconds, a man wearing a black beret approaches from the corner. Khalil Washington, a 29-year-old community patrol member with the New Black Panther Party, raises his phone and begins recording.

He positions himself between Tanya and the agents.

“She said she’s American. On what basis are you detaining her?”

The agents warn him to step back. He refuses.

“Then arrest me. But you’re not taking her without probable cause.”

The bodycam records the escalation—not physical, but legal. Rights are invoked. The Fourth Amendment is cited. Tanya states clearly that she is exercising her right to remain silent and requests an attorney.

Bystanders begin to gather. Phones are raised. A store owner steps outside. Traffic slows.

The agents repeat commands.

Khalil repeats the law.

“You have no warrant. What’s your legal justification?”

The moment hangs.

An Oakland BART police officer arrives. She asks the question the footage has been circling since the beginning:

“Do you have a warrant with her name on it?”

The agents do not.

Within minutes, the detention attempt dissolves. Tanya is told she is free to go.

Eighteen minutes after the initial stop, she boards the train—shaken, but not arrested.

The footage spreads quickly. Civil rights groups review it. Complaints are filed. Internal investigations begin.

Months later, federal court jurors watch the same bodycam clip—timestamped, unedited, unflinching.

The jury finds the agents liable for unlawful detention and racial profiling.

$850,000 in damages.

The ruling affirms what the footage suggests: there was no articulable probable cause. No lawful basis for the stop beyond appearance and assumption.

The agents remain employed. Policy reforms are announced. Community patrols expand.

The video remains—steady, slightly distorted, framed by a digital AXON timestamp in the corner.

A woman walking to work.
Three federal agents demanding proof she belongs.
One man refusing to step aside.

She was not undocumented.
She was not resisting.
She was not violating any law.

And still, on an ordinary March morning in Oakland, it took community intervention to prevent a wrongful arrest.

Sometimes justice happens in a courtroom.

Sometimes it happens on a sidewalk.

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