Police confirm investigation into anti-ICE Virginia Commonwealth nurse who encouraged drugging agents

The Virginia Commonwealth University constabulary confirmed Thursday day that the now-fired caregiver whose TikTok videos encouraged different healthcare workers to cause ICE agents is nether transgression investigation. 

Malinda Cook was fired from her occupation Tuesday evening aft a little probe by her erstwhile employer, VCU Health. A time prior, 3 videos made by Cook and posted to her TikTok were stitched unneurotic and shared connected X by fashionable relationship LibsOfTikTok. 

The effect was a viral firestorm that outgo Cook her livelihood, and has present enactment her nether the microscope of authorities. 

In 1 video, she urged different healthcare providers to usage an anti-paralytic cause connected ICE agents. The video was simply captioned with "#ice #resistance #sabotage."

Left: Federal agents woody with agitators extracurricular of the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building successful Minneapolis, Minnesota, connected January 14, 2026. Right: A screenshot from a Virginia Commonwealth University nurses's TikTok leafage taken connected January 27, 2026. (Jamie Vera/Fox News; mindarose8/TikTok)

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"I thought of thing good," she said.

"Sabotage tactic, oregon astatine slightest scare tactic. All the aesculapian providers, drawback immoderate syringes with needles connected the end," she said. "Have them afloat of saline oregon succinylcholine, you know, whatever. Whatever. That volition astir apt beryllium a deterrent. Be safe."

Succinylcholine is an anesthetic that causes rapid, short-acting musculus paralysis. The paralytic effect typically lasts for 4 to six minutes.

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The caregiver further instructed others to premix poison ivy and poison oak with water, and spray the concoction connected opponents. She suggested utilizing a h2o weapon to dispersed the liquid.

"Aim for faces, hands," she said.

Federal instrumentality enforcement agents detain a demonstrator during a raid successful southbound Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, connected Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. Minnesota officials are suing implicit the unprecedented surge of US migration authorities successful the state, taking the Trump medication to tribunal days aft a national cause changeable and killed a Minneapolis woman. (Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

She past directed azygous women to instrumentality ICE agents connected dates and sabotage their food.

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"Single ladies, wherever these ICE guys are going, person a accidental to bash something, you know, not without risk, but could assistance the origin for sure," she said. "Get connected Tinder, get connected Hinge, find these guys. They're around. [If] they're an ICE agent, bring immoderate ex-lax and enactment it successful their drinks. Get them sick. You know, nobody's going to die. Just capable to incapacitate them and get them disconnected the thoroughfare for the adjacent day. Highly, easy deniable."

"I'm conscionable saying, let's get them wherever they eat," she said. "Somebody's not going to beryllium supporting these guys. Where's the edifice wherever they eat? Who makes that breakfast? Let's find them."

"Let's marque their lives f---ing miserable," she said later.

One aesculapian watchdog blasted the nurse, saying that firing her was the bare minimum.

A Border Patrol cause chatted with a protester successful Minnesota connected Thursday, uncovering communal crushed implicit subject service. (Brendan Gutenschwager via Storyful)

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"As we’ve documented astatine Do No Harm, VCU has a agelong past of pushing utmost individuality authorities into aesculapian acquisition and objective treatment," Do No Harm's Executive Director Kristina Rasmussen told Fox News Digital. "Now, they enactment amazed erstwhile radicalism sprouts from a crushed seeded with toxic ideology."

"When aesculapian schools and hospitals let extremist authorities to signifier curriculum, they extremity up grooming harmful activists alternatively than skilled aesculapian professionals," Rasmussen said. "VCU Health firing this caregiver is the bare minimum response. Unless they cleanable up their act, however volition immoderate diligent consciousness harmless walking done their doors?"