Virginia Commonwealth University police announced on Thursday afternoon that a former nurse, who lost her job due to controversial TikTok videos urging fellow healthcare professionals to administer drugs to ICE agents, is currently the subject of a criminal investigation.

Malinda Cook was dismissed from her position at VCU Health on Tuesday evening following a swift inquiry by her employer. This decision came shortly after three of her TikTok videos were compiled and shared on the social media platform X by the widely-followed account, LibsOfTikTok.

The dissemination of these videos sparked a viral uproar, leading to Cook’s termination and attracting the attention of law enforcement authorities.

In one of the videos, Cook can be seen encouraging other healthcare workers to administer an anti-paralytic drug to ICE agents, with the video tagged with hashtags like “#ice #resistance #sabotage.”

Left: Federal agents confront protesters in Minnesota, captured on January 14, 2026. Right: A screenshot from a nurse’s TikTok page at VCU, taken on January 27, 2026. (Photo credits: Jamie Vera/Fox News; mindarose8/TikTok)

“I thought of something good,” she said.

“Sabotage tactic, or at least scare tactic. All the medical providers, grab some syringes with needles on the end,” she said. “Have them full of saline or succinylcholine, you know, whatever. Whatever. That will probably be a deterrent. Be safe.”

Succinylcholine is an anesthetic that causes rapid, short-acting muscle paralysis. The paralytic effect typically lasts for four to six minutes.

The nurse further instructed others to mix poison ivy and poison oak with water, and spray the concoction on opponents. She suggested using a water gun to spread the liquid.

“Aim for faces, hands,” she said.

Federal law enforcement agents detain a demonstrator during a raid in south Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Jan. 13, 2026. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

She then directed single women to take ICE agents on dates and sabotage their food.

“Single ladies, where these ICE guys are going, have a chance to do something, you know, not without risk, but could help the cause for sure,” she said. “Get on Tinder, get on Hinge, find these guys. They’re around. [If] they’re an ICE agent, bring some ex-lax and put it in their drinks. Get them sick. You know, nobody’s going to die. Just enough to incapacitate them and get them off the street for the next day. Highly, easily deniable.”

“I’m just saying, let’s get them where they eat,” she said. “Somebody’s not going to be supporting these guys. Where’s the hotel where they eat? Who makes that breakfast? Let’s find them.”

“Let’s make their lives f—ing miserable,” she said later.

One medical watchdog blasted the nurse, saying that firing her was the bare minimum.

A Border Patrol agent chatted with a protester in Minnesota on Thursday. (Brendan Gutenschwager via Storyful)

“As we’ve documented at Do No Harm, VCU has a long history of pushing extreme identity politics into medical education and clinical treatment,” Do No Harm’s Executive Director Kristina Rasmussen told Fox News Digital. “Now, they act surprised when radicalism sprouts from a ground seeded with toxic ideology.”

“When medical schools and hospitals allow radical politics to shape curriculum, they end up training harmful activists rather than skilled medical professionals,” Rasmussen said. “VCU Health firing this nurse is the bare minimum response. Unless they clean up their act, how will any patient feel safe walking through their doors?”