Video showing a Ukrainian woman being arrested by immigration agents at San Francisco International Airport on Wednesday is drawing attention and raising questions about how the arrest was carried out. This comes alongside a spike in similar stories around the country since June, a trend that has at torneys cautioning their clients not to fly. Video taken of this incident shows a woman in a white shirt and dark pants on the ground outside a store inside SFO, while two men who appear to be dressed in plainclothes pin her to the floor. The woman shouts out, “You’re choking me!” and “Please help me!” as people gather around and ask the men what they are arresting her for. At one point, the woman shouts out, “I’m from Ukraine!” Doria Robinson, who happens to be a city council member for the city of Richmond, was in the airport around 7:45 p.m. that evening. She was waiting to board her flight at the time and recorded video of the incident, which has since been shared by many different accounts across social media. Robinson said she was inside the Harvey Milk Terminal at the B7 gate, already past security, when she heard “a woman screaming at the top of her lungs.” “I looked across, and I saw two men taking a woman who was in a shop across the way, pulling her down to the ground, getting on top of her as she’s screaming,” Robinson recalled. Initially, she said she wondered if it was a domestic violence incident or human trafficking. But as she got closer, she realized something else was going on and began recording. Robinson estimated that hundreds of people around the terminal were also watching this unfold. Robinson said that she did not see the two men wearing any clothing or identification showing who they worked with. Also, she said, despite questions from the crowd about who they were with, the men refused to answer. Ultimately, she said the men handcuffed the woman and carted her away in a wheelchair. A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson confirmed to NBC Bay Area that on July 22, ICE arrested a Ukrainian woman named Iryna Gorb at SFO, saying that when officers approached her, “she attempted to flee and resisted arrest.” DHS said Gorb lawfully entered the U.S. in 2010 on a visa that allowed her to stay in the country until May of 2011. DHS said Gorb overstayed her visa and stayed in the U.S. for 15 more years. “She will remain in ICE custody pending removal procedings,” the DHS spokesperson said. Alyssa Goard has more details in the story above. ...read more read less