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Tiana Gibson Brown says officers entered her home without showing a warrant, recounts pepper-spray and frightened children
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Summary
At a public meeting, Tiana Gibson Brown testified that on Jan. 11 armed officers identifying as ICE surrounded her house, used crowd-control measures against protesters, forced entry after ramming the door and did not show a warrant when asked; she said her family's Fourth Amendment rights were violated.
Tiana Gibson Brown told attendees at a public meeting that on Jan. 11 federal immigration officers and other armed personnel surrounded her home, forced open her front door and did not show a warrant when she and her husband asked to see one.
Brown said she was woken around 9:30 a.m. by her husband, Garrison William Gibson Brown, who told her ICE agents were at the door. "When Garrison asked to see the warrant, the officer simply ignored his request," she said, adding that the officers told them they had a warrant "and it was signed by a judge." Brown said the officers never produced the document.
The incident escalated as neighbors and protesters gathered, Brown said. "Officers from the truck started shooting pepper spray at the protesters," she said, and she described roughly 10 armed officers approaching her door in a tactical formation. She said one protester in her yard was grabbed by the neck and thrown to the ground.
Brown recounted that the officers rammed her door three times until it "popped open," and that officers entered with guns pointed at her family. She said she stood between the officers and her husband and asked the officers "yet again to show me the warrant." "Despite all of this, they did not show me anything," she said. Brown said her 9-year-old daughter and a younger cousin were rushed into a closet and told to hide.
Brown framed the events as a constitutional violation. "I am here to share a deeply personal and painful experience, how me and my family's Fourth Amendment were violated," she said. She gave earlier dates linked to ICE interactions, saying her husband had checked in with ICE on Dec. 29 and had another appointment scheduled for Jan. 26.
The account in this article is Brown's testimony at the meeting. The officers' assertion that they had a warrant was reported by Brown; the transcript does not include a produced warrant, law-enforcement statements responding to her account, or any motion or formal action taken at the meeting. The meeting record does not specify the forum or agency hosting the session. The next procedural steps, including whether any public officials or law enforcement representatives responded, were not recorded in the provided transcript.
