adminA Virginia Commonwealth University Health nurse was exposed this week after posting a series of social media videos that urged people to sabotage and incapacitate Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, even naming specific methods that could cause serious harm. The clips, which went viral after being reposted on X, showed a licensed healthcare worker openly suggesting syringes, paralytic agents, poison ivy concoctions, and food tampering as “resistance” tactics. This isn’t edgy political theater — it’s a shocking betrayal of the trust Americans place in medical professionals and a clear public safety threat.
In the videos the nurse reportedly told fellow medical providers to carry syringes filled with saline or succinylcholine as a “deterrent,” described soaking poison ivy in water and spraying it at agents’ faces, and even urged single women to drug dates to incapacitate ICE personnel. Those are not rhetorical flourishes; they are operational instructions for committing crimes that could leave people permanently harmed or dead. Listening to a healthcare worker give step-by-step tips for harming law enforcement is chilling, and it exposes how far radicalism has seeped into trusted institutions.
VCU Health moved quickly once the videos surfaced, saying the content was “highly inappropriate” and did not reflect the system’s values, and the university’s police assisted with the inquiry; the employee was placed on administrative leave and, according to an update, is no longer employed by the health system. That swift personnel action was the minimum response, and it underscores the danger hospitals face when ideological zealotry replaces professional ethics. Hospitals are supposed to be sanctuaries for the sick, not platforms for political terrorism dressed up as “resistance.”
Lawmakers and watchdogs rightly demanded further accountability, calling for criminal referrals and vigorous investigation into whether federal statutes were violated by giving detailed advice on poisoning and incapacitating federal officers. This is not free speech at the margins — it is potentially criminal conduct that federal and state authorities must treat seriously to deter copycats and protect the men and women who enforce our laws. If our institutions refuse to prosecute obvious wrongdoing, we will only see more emboldened, law-breaking activists posing as caregivers.
Beyond the immediate legal questions, conservative Americans should be alarmed about the cultural rot that allows a caregiver to weaponize medical knowledge against citizens and officers. We have watched for years as left-wing ideology has been tolerated and even encouraged in schools and hospitals; when that ideology crosses into explicit instructions for violence it becomes an existential threat to public safety and to the integrity of the medical profession. Patients deserve care from apolitical professionals, not activists who view hospitals as recruiting grounds for criminality.
Now is the time for concrete reforms: hospitals must enforce strict hiring and credentialing standards, boards should revoke licenses when providers advocate violence, and prosecutors must make examples of those who translate leftist fury into criminal acts. Americans who go to work, pay taxes, and keep our communities safe deserve institutions that put safety and ethics first — not institutions that coddle radical staff until someone gets hurt. The choice is simple: defend the rule of law and patient safety, or watch our institutions be hollowed out by ideology.
