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VCU Health employee placed on leave after videos suggest harming ICE agents

VCU Health placed an employee on administrative leave after videos surfaced encouraging harm to ICE agents, prompting an ongoing safety and conduct investigation.

  • Earlier this month, Virginia Commonwealth University Health opened an investigation and placed the employee on administrative leave, with VCU Police assisting and the worker barred from facilities during review.
  • The worker posted a series of videos urging colleagues to employ syringes filled with saline or succinylcholine and suggested poisoning drinks or spraying poison-ivy water against ICE agents.
  • A compilation of clips was shared on X by Libs of TikTok, urging the woman be fired, have her license revoked and face charges, while Reuters flagged the controversy.
  • Verification limits emerged as a complicating factor for legal and professional actions, as legal and civil-rights observers criticized the clips and independent outlets noted they could not fully verify Melinda's identity.
  • Social posts identified the woman only as Melinda and said she works for VCU Health, linking the episode to a major health system amid tensions after Renee Nicole Good's Jan 7 shooting.
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