A disturbing Halloween display in Houston appears to show effigies of federal immigration agents wearing red MAGA-like hats hanging from gallows — drawing backlash just days after surging anti-ICE rhetoric led to a deadly shooting at an agency facility in Dallas.
The shocking front-yard display in the majority-Hispanic Second Ward neighborhood in Harris County showed the red hat-wearing mannequins strung up on a noose from homemade gallows that featured a small Mexican flag, Fox News reported.
The figures’ attire — black shirts, tan pants and face masks with zip ties in their pockets — drew comparisons to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
Two coffins flanked the gallows, and a hangman mannequin wearing a straw hat and colorful poncho stood over a fourth dummy that appeared to have its hands tied.
The sick display is cordoned off with barbed wire fencing, video showed.
Tens of thousands of social media users expressed their outrage at the jarring exhibit, with one extremely agitated X user writing in a viral post, “This hateful display will likely be inciting violence. It goes past free speech. Arrest who did this.”
https://nypost.com/2025/09/26/us-news/halloween-display-sparks-outrage-over-lynched-mannequins-in-maga-like-red-hats-mexican-flag/