Virginia Hospital Fires Nurse Who Urged Colleagues To Inject ICE Agents With Paralytic Drug
A Virginia hospital has fired a nurse after she publicly encouraged medical professionals to assault Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents by injecting them with a paralytic drug in order to “sabotage” federal immigration operations.
Virginia Commonwealth University Health confirmed Tuesday that it terminated the employee following an internal investigation prompted by a series of disturbing TikTok videos. In one video, the nurse urged doctors and nurses to fill syringes with “saline or succinylcholine,” a drug that can temporarily paralyze muscles and interfere with breathing.
“Grab some syringes with needles on the end,” she said in the video. “Saline or succinylcholine. Whatever. Whatever. It would probably be a deterrent.”
Meet Melinda, a healthcare worker at @VCUHealth. She posted a series of videos encouraging people to inject ICE agents with succinylocholine, a temporary paralysis drug, and spray poison on them. She also encourages woman to go on dates with agents and drug their food.
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VCU Health said the nurse is no longer employed and that the hospital has met all reporting requirements under Virginia law.
“Following an investigation, the individual involved in the social media videos is no longer employed by VCU Health,” the hospital said in a statement. “In addition, VCU Health has fulfilled its reporting requirements under Virginia state law.”
The nurse, who used the online handle “Redheadredemption,” went even further in additional videos. Wearing medical scrubs, she suggested filling a water gun with poison ivy-soaked liquid and shooting ICE officers in the face. In another clip, she encouraged women to use dating apps to lure ICE agents and secretly drug their drinks with laxatives.
“All the single ladies where these ICE guys are going have a chance to do something,” she said. “Get on Tinder, get on Hinge, find these guys. If they’re an ICE agent, bring some ex-lax and put it in their drinks.”
She claimed the tactic would be “highly deniable” and suggested targeting ICE agents at hotels and restaurants, adding that supporters should make their lives “f—ing miserable.” She also encouraged hotel staff to hide dead fish in agents’ rooms.
The videos sparked outrage online and raised serious concerns about threats coming from within trusted professions. Federal officials have repeatedly warned that inflammatory rhetoric against ICE is fueling real-world violence.
According to DHS data, ICE agents are now facing an estimated 8,000 percent increase in death threats and a more than 1,300 percent surge in assaults as anti-ICE activism escalates nationwide.
The incident underscores growing concerns within law enforcement that radical anti-police rhetoric is no longer confined to protests and online posts, but is increasingly crossing into direct calls for violence and criminal acts.