Report: ICE Impersonated NYPD To Arrest Columbia University Student

"The officers falsely told the building superintendent that they were from the Police Department and said that they were searching for a missing child. The superintendent let the officers in, Ms. Shipman said. At the apartment door of the student, Ellie Aghayeva, 29, the officers repeated the same story to gain entry. Our security cameras captured the agents in the hallway showing pictures of the alleged missing child."

"Once the agents entered the apartment, it was clear that they had misrepresented themselves. A public security officer arrived and asked for a warrant, which was not produced, Ms. Shipman said. They refused to give the officer time to call his supervisor, and they then took the student, she said, calling the situation utterly unacceptable."

ICE agents arrested 29-year-old Columbia University student Ellie Aghayeva by allegedly impersonating NYPD officers. The agents told a building superintendent they were searching for a missing child to gain entry to the university-owned apartment building. They repeated this false story at the student's apartment door, with security cameras capturing them showing pictures of an alleged missing child. When a public security officer arrived and requested a warrant, the agents refused to produce one and declined to allow the officer to contact his supervisor before taking the student into custody. Columbia University President Claire Shipman characterized the incident as utterly unacceptable.

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