Journalist Aaron Parnas, who posts on TikTok as @aaronparnas1, said in a video that ICE cut open a man’s stomach in Texas to force-feed him. The clip, which he said drew 3.2 million views, 565,400 likes, and 14,400 comments, showed him speaking to the camera in a white shirt and black baseball cap. Red on-screen text in the video read, “NEWS: ICE CUTS OPEN MAN’S ABDOMEN TO PERFORM NONCONSENSUAL SURGERY TO FORCE-FEEED HIM.”
Parnas stated that a detainee on a hunger strike was tortured by ICE officials and that viewers needed to know because a U.S. court approved it. He said a news investigation found that ICE force-fed a Cuban detainee at a Texas detention facility and did not use the usual nasal tube.
