NEW YORK (WABC) -- An ICE officer has been relieved of his duties after video showed him tackling a woman to the floor at an immigration courthouse in Manhattan.

Several elected officials are demanding a criminal investigation and say it is not enough that the officer was fired, they say his actions in that video may well be criminal.

The violent confrontation happened in the hallway of 26 Federal Plaza where some politicians argue ICE has inhumanely detained thousands of immigrant New Yorkers in deplorable conditions.

In the video, federal agents are first seen struggling to arrest an Ecuadoran man as his traumatized family pleads for them to stop. Once the man is in custody, and dragged away, his wife confronts one of the officers who grabs her and shoves her into a wall.

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