An anti-ICE protest delivered an unexpected moment of divine intervention this week after a masked, wheelchair-bound demonstrator briefly regained the power of walking when the cameras were rolling.
Video from the scene shows the protester sitting in a wheelchair amid the usual shouting and disorder. At one point, the individual drops something on the ground. Rather than waiting for help, the protester suddenly stands up, steps out of the wheelchair, bends down to retrieve the item, and then calmly returns to the chair as if nothing happened.
The clip has become fresh ammo for skeptics who say modern protest movements are more about optics than reality. From professionally printed signs to coordinated chants and now apparently wheelchair theatrics, critics argue the goal is to manufacture outrage and sympathy for the cameras.
