Malinda Rose Cook VCU nurse fired over social media posts urging medics harm ICE agents amid rising tensions towards Trump’s illegal immigration crackdown.
A nurse anesthetist in Virginia has been fired after posting a series of TikTok videos in which she advocated harming U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
Malinda Rose Cook, formerly with Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Health, posted multiple clips encouraging fellow medics and protesters to inject agents with muscle relaxants and to spray them with poison ivy water.
The healthcare worker was initially suspended by her Virginia hospital employer before she was eventually fired and reported to local law enforcement.
VCU nurse videos lead to condemnation
‘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 episode led to legal analyst Russ Stone saying that prosecutors could potentially charge Cook with solicitation to commit a felony offense. ‘It’s even more surprising because she’s in the healthcare field, where the Hippocratic Oath says, ‘First, do no harm,’ Stone told WRIC. ‘She’s clearly not following her oath.’
In her videos, Cook urged medical providers to fill syringes with saline or succinylcholine, a powerful anesthetic that paralyzes every muscle in the body, including those needed to breathe, and use them on federal officers.
In a medical setting, the substance is used briefly during surgery to insert breathing tubes, wearing off in five to ten minutes. It can be dangerous if used incorrectly or without proper medical supervision.
Cook advertised the procedure as a ‘sabotage tactic, or at least scare tactic’ to be used against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
VCU nurse diabolical mandate
Despite Cook’s videos being removed from her TikTok page, a compilation of the footage was reposted on social media.
Posted conservative outlet, Libs of TikTok: ‘Any comment @VCUHealth? How can you have such a vile person working with patients? How can anyone feel safe at your facilities if you employ such people?’
‘All the medical providers, grab some syringes with needles on the end,’ Cook said in one since-deleted TikTok clip which appeared to be filmed from hospital.
‘Have them full of saline or succinylcholine, you know, whatever. Whatever. That will probably be a deterrent. Be safe.’
Cook also advised protesters to gather poison ivy, ‘get it in some water, like a gallon of water… and put it into a water gun. Aim for faces, hands.’
‘Get on Tinder, get on Hinge, find these guys. They’re around. [If] they’re an ICE agent, bring some ex-lax and put it in their drinks. Get them sick.
‘You know, nobody’s going to die. Just enough to incapacitate them and get them off the street for the next day. Highly, easily deniable.’
VCU nurse is latest casualty amid heightened political tensions in the U.S
The incident comes amid national outrage over the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by an ICE officer in Minneapolis on Saturday, the second fatal shooting of a U.S citizen in Minnesota in less than three weeks amid resistance to the Trump administration‘s push to ’round up illegals.’
The healthcare worker’s ouster comes just days after Alexis ‘Lexie’ Lawler, a now-former labor and delivery nurse in Boca Raton, Florida, shared TikTok videos wishing severe childbirth injuries on White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who is pregnant. Lawler was fired by Baptist Health Boca Raton Regional Hospital soon after her seriously vile TikTok video went viral.
Similarly earlier this month a Nebraska activist became the focus of secret service agents visiting her home, an incident which she recorded and shared on social media following cryptic posts she had made referencing Karoline Leavitt who as part of her role as media spokesperson on behalf of the White House has been vocal in defending the Trump administration’s controversial immigration policies.
The killing of Pretti, 37, has become a flashpoint for national outrage and scrutiny including accusations that citizens who turn up to protest at the rallies are in certain instances ending up on domestic terrorist watch lists.
