The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation terminated a staff attorney who posted TikTok videos urging Americans to defy ICE agents and "make their lives f---ing miserable", a rant that drew swift condemnation from the state's attorney general.
Shannon Desherow, an assistant general counsel at OSBI, lost her job after the agency completed an internal investigation into her social media posts attacking federal immigration enforcement. The agency confirmed the firing to Fox News Digital on Friday, offering little detail beyond the outcome.
"Once we were made aware of her social media post, we opened an internal investigation," an OSBI spokesperson said. "Upon completion of the internal investigation, she was terminated." The spokesperson added that the agency could not comment further because it is a personnel matter.
Desherow's TikTok video went viral after the account Libs of TikTok reshared it on July 9. In the clip, Desherow, a licensed attorney employed by one of Oklahoma's premier law enforcement bodies, told viewers that ICE agents have no authority over U.S. citizens and urged open defiance.
"ICE has no authority and no jurisdiction over U.S. citizens. So why the f--- would I comply with an order given to me at gunpoint by somebody who has no f---ing authority to make that order? I'm not going to. That's the f---ing thing."
She did not stop there. Desherow went on to dismiss ICE warrants as legally insufficient and called on every citizen to adopt a posture of confrontation toward federal agents.
"An ICE warrant, by the way, 99% of the time, is an administrative warrant. It's not good enough for the f---ing Fourth Amendment. It doesn't give you access to my house, it doesn't give you access to my car, and it certainly doesn't give you access to f---ing arrest me. I was born here, and I'm going to make it an ICE agent's problem."
She then urged all citizens to share that posture: "We need to make their lives f---ing miserable, and that's exactly what we should be doing."
A woman employed as legal counsel for a state criminal investigative bureau was publicly encouraging citizens to obstruct federal law enforcement officers. The contradiction between her professional obligations and her public statements could hardly be more direct.
Before OSBI completed its internal review, Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond weighed in publicly. Fox News had earlier reported that Drummond's office suggested Desherow should step down voluntarily.
"Anyone in Oklahoma law enforcement who feels so passionately against our federal partners should resign."
Desherow did not resign. OSBI fired her instead.
The case fits a broader pattern of public employees facing swift professional consequences after their conduct surfaces on social media. A Houston meteorologist recently lost her job after airing workplace grievances in a viral Instagram post. The common thread is simple: public-facing roles carry public accountability, and the internet does not forget.
The anti-ICE rant was not Desherow's only inflammatory post. Libs of TikTok also surfaced a separate video in which Desherow addressed the fatal shooting of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, who was killed at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025.
"Charlie Kirk inherited the society that he helped create. Charlie Kirk and other conservative talking heads like him preach stochastic violence endlessly and then whine and cry when they're the victim of their own f---ing violent rhetoric."
A state law enforcement attorney, in other words, responded to a political assassination by blaming the victim. She framed a man's murder as a foreseeable consequence of his own speech, a position that mirrors the "stochastic terrorism" talking point used by some on the left to assign blame for political violence to conservative commentators rather than to the people who commit it.
In yet another pinned TikTok video, Desherow waded into the election of Zohran Mamdani, telling conservatives not to complain about Sharia law in connection with Mamdani's win. "You guys love Sharia law, you love fundamentalist extremism when White people are implementing it," she said.
Government employees losing their positions after public misconduct is not unique to state agencies. The firing of a former Obama press aide from a Minneapolis city job over allegations of stealing from coworkers offered another recent example of how quickly institutional trust can collapse when an employee's off-duty conduct comes to light.
Desherow's TikTok biography included a Palestinian flag emoji and described her as a "Lawyer, mom, bookworm, leftist in a red state." It also carried a disclaimer: "views are entirely my own and not representative of my employer."
That disclaimer did not save her job. Nor should it have. The issue was never whether OSBI endorsed her views. The issue was whether a staff attorney for a state law enforcement agency could publicly urge citizens to obstruct federal agents and mock a murdered conservative commentator while retaining the state's confidence in her professional judgment.
OSBI answered that question clearly.
Desherow graduated from the University of Central Oklahoma in December 2016 and earned her law degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 2020. At the time of Fox News Digital's report, her LinkedIn page still listed her as "Currently working for the OSBI" as assistant general counsel. Her TikTok page, which had been set to private after the controversy erupted, appeared to be public again.
Fox News Digital reached out to both ICE and Desherow for comment. Neither response was reported.
The episode arrives amid ongoing national friction over federal immigration enforcement. Anti-ICE protests and threats against agents in Newark, New Jersey, have drawn attention from law enforcement figures including retired FBI Special Agent James Gagliano, who discussed the hostility facing ICE personnel on the ground.
Debates over the scope of federal authority and government employee terminations have become a recurring flashpoint in American politics. But Desherow's case is not a close call. She was not fired for holding private political views. She was fired for broadcasting those views in a profanity-laden public video that directly contradicted the mission of the agency that employed her.
Across state and local government, employees are learning that exposure carries consequences, particularly when the conduct in question undermines the very institution signing the paycheck.
If you work for a law enforcement agency and spend your evenings telling the public to obstruct law enforcement, the only surprise is that anyone needed an internal investigation to reach the obvious conclusion.
