ICE protest footage complicates Minneapolis couple’s tear-gassed baby story
Who's accountable for the results?
Footage from the scene of a Minneapolis protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement appears to contradict one couple’s claims that their baby was tear-gassed by federal officers as the family merely headed home from an after-school activity, a story that went viral last week amid liberal outrage over ICE operations in the Twin Cities.
Shawn and Destiny Jackson, the parents of six children, are raising a large sum of money for themselves off of the Jan. 14 incident. Within a week, the Jacksons raked in more than $170,000 in donations on GoFundMe.
According to the couple’s fundraising campaign, they were “innocent bystanders” caught in the crossfire of a peaceful protest when ICE’s crowd-dispersal units threw tear gas bombs, one of which rolled under the Jacksons’ SUV, where their children, between the ages of 6 months and 11 years old, were strapped in.
Upon the canister’s detonation, the car began to fill with toxic fumes, and the airbags were deployed by the concussive blast of a flash bang, trapping the chemical irritants inside. Both parents scrambled to open the car doors as the safety locks automatically activated.
The Jackson family’s GoFundMe campaign has raised more than $175,000 to date. (GoFundMe)
Once all of the children were pulled out, the couple noticed that their baby was not breathing. Destiny Jackson described performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on the infant, “with what little breath I had in my body,” until he eventually regained consciousness.
Emergency services arrived shortly after to assist, and some of the children were taken to the hospital to treat their exposure to tear gas.
Since then, the Jacksons have gone on a press circuit, giving one-on-one interviews to national news outlets across the country, including CNN, CBS, ABC News, and the New York Times.
The family is working with a publicist, according to a mass email to members of the media obtained by the Washington Examiner.
Unbendable Media, a “movement-focused” public relations firm specializing in attracting media attention on behalf of progressive organizations, campaigns, and high-profile clients, blasted out an open call to the press on Jan. 20, pitching interviews with the Jacksons and a racial justice researcher from the University of Minnesota’s medical school, who can speak complementary to the impact of “chemical weapons on kids.”
As the Jacksons continue their press tour, the couple — calling their family of eight “the latest ICE victims” — …
Who's accountable for the results?
Footage from the scene of a Minneapolis protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement appears to contradict one couple’s claims that their baby was tear-gassed by federal officers as the family merely headed home from an after-school activity, a story that went viral last week amid liberal outrage over ICE operations in the Twin Cities.
Shawn and Destiny Jackson, the parents of six children, are raising a large sum of money for themselves off of the Jan. 14 incident. Within a week, the Jacksons raked in more than $170,000 in donations on GoFundMe.
According to the couple’s fundraising campaign, they were “innocent bystanders” caught in the crossfire of a peaceful protest when ICE’s crowd-dispersal units threw tear gas bombs, one of which rolled under the Jacksons’ SUV, where their children, between the ages of 6 months and 11 years old, were strapped in.
Upon the canister’s detonation, the car began to fill with toxic fumes, and the airbags were deployed by the concussive blast of a flash bang, trapping the chemical irritants inside. Both parents scrambled to open the car doors as the safety locks automatically activated.
The Jackson family’s GoFundMe campaign has raised more than $175,000 to date. (GoFundMe)
Once all of the children were pulled out, the couple noticed that their baby was not breathing. Destiny Jackson described performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on the infant, “with what little breath I had in my body,” until he eventually regained consciousness.
Emergency services arrived shortly after to assist, and some of the children were taken to the hospital to treat their exposure to tear gas.
Since then, the Jacksons have gone on a press circuit, giving one-on-one interviews to national news outlets across the country, including CNN, CBS, ABC News, and the New York Times.
The family is working with a publicist, according to a mass email to members of the media obtained by the Washington Examiner.
Unbendable Media, a “movement-focused” public relations firm specializing in attracting media attention on behalf of progressive organizations, campaigns, and high-profile clients, blasted out an open call to the press on Jan. 20, pitching interviews with the Jacksons and a racial justice researcher from the University of Minnesota’s medical school, who can speak complementary to the impact of “chemical weapons on kids.”
As the Jacksons continue their press tour, the couple — calling their family of eight “the latest ICE victims” — …
ICE protest footage complicates Minneapolis couple’s tear-gassed baby story
Who's accountable for the results?
Footage from the scene of a Minneapolis protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement appears to contradict one couple’s claims that their baby was tear-gassed by federal officers as the family merely headed home from an after-school activity, a story that went viral last week amid liberal outrage over ICE operations in the Twin Cities.
Shawn and Destiny Jackson, the parents of six children, are raising a large sum of money for themselves off of the Jan. 14 incident. Within a week, the Jacksons raked in more than $170,000 in donations on GoFundMe.
According to the couple’s fundraising campaign, they were “innocent bystanders” caught in the crossfire of a peaceful protest when ICE’s crowd-dispersal units threw tear gas bombs, one of which rolled under the Jacksons’ SUV, where their children, between the ages of 6 months and 11 years old, were strapped in.
Upon the canister’s detonation, the car began to fill with toxic fumes, and the airbags were deployed by the concussive blast of a flash bang, trapping the chemical irritants inside. Both parents scrambled to open the car doors as the safety locks automatically activated.
The Jackson family’s GoFundMe campaign has raised more than $175,000 to date. (GoFundMe)
Once all of the children were pulled out, the couple noticed that their baby was not breathing. Destiny Jackson described performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on the infant, “with what little breath I had in my body,” until he eventually regained consciousness.
Emergency services arrived shortly after to assist, and some of the children were taken to the hospital to treat their exposure to tear gas.
Since then, the Jacksons have gone on a press circuit, giving one-on-one interviews to national news outlets across the country, including CNN, CBS, ABC News, and the New York Times.
The family is working with a publicist, according to a mass email to members of the media obtained by the Washington Examiner.
Unbendable Media, a “movement-focused” public relations firm specializing in attracting media attention on behalf of progressive organizations, campaigns, and high-profile clients, blasted out an open call to the press on Jan. 20, pitching interviews with the Jacksons and a racial justice researcher from the University of Minnesota’s medical school, who can speak complementary to the impact of “chemical weapons on kids.”
As the Jacksons continue their press tour, the couple — calling their family of eight “the latest ICE victims” — …
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