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Though the woman’s video prominently featured an MGH staff badge, the hospital said she has not worked there “for some time.”
Massachusetts General Hospital is distancing itself from a former employee whose short video condemning U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement drew backlash from conservative social media users.
Posted on TikTok nearly a week ago, the 10-second clip opens with a woman holding up a staff badge identifying her as a registered nurse in the emergency department at Mass General.
She pulls out a canister of saline wound wash and sprays it at the camera while mouthing along to the A Day To Remember song “Miracle,” which features the lyrics, “No weapon formed against me shall prosper / My will is stronger.”
“Hey ICE,” text on the screen reads. “F— you. And f— you too.”
The woman, identified by her badge and TikTok page as “Christina” or “Tina,” appears to be wearing scrubs and a scrub cap, with a stethoscope draped around her neck. She did not immediately return a request for comment Friday.
Her video soon sparked criticism from some social media users, particularly after the popular far-right account Libs of TikTok shared the clip online with the caption, “Hey @MassGeneralNews, is this your nurse? Any comment?
Responding to the controversy on its own social media pages, Mass General said it was aware of the video and identified the original poster as a “former temporary employee.”
“This individual is not an employee at Mass General and has not been a part of the department for some time,” the hospital’s statement read. “Mass General is a place of healing where all are welcome.”
The Mass General firestorm comes after a nurse in Virginia was purportedly fired for posting TikTok videos suggesting ICE agents should be targeted with anesthetics or fired upon with a poison ivy-laced squirt gun. Separately, a nurse in Chicago drew online ire after he reportedly posted an anti-ICE video, though he denied suggesting that nurses should allow injured federal immigration agents to bleed out.
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