Washington DC - A former FBI official has come forward with claims that President Donald Trump's administration pushed for unconstitutional probes into activists during anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles last year.

On Monday, Jill Fields, a former supervisory intelligence analyst in the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office, submitted a whistleblower complaint to the Senate Judiciary Committee in which she alleges the administration violated the First Amendment right to free speech and to peaceably assemble after then-Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove ordered an investigation into activists demonstrating near federal buildings.

In another incident, the White House allegedly ordered FBI Director Kash Patel to investigate a specific group of protesters after President Trump was shown videos of them using megaphones to warn others not to comply with ICE.

Fields claimed one official – whose name was redacted in the complaint – allegedly told her "the President wants this investigation."

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Protests erupted across Los Angeles last year after Trump sent federal agents to the city to enact deportation sweeps as part of his aggressive immigration agenda.

The president and his allies went out of their way to slander protesters by claiming they were violently targeting agents and impeding their work, which they used to justify instances where officers responded to protesters with excessive force.

The complaint claims FBI agents were pulled off active cartel cases for what one supervisor described as "optics" to "make a show for the president."

The complaint comes as hundreds of FBI officials and other government employees have either left or been fired since Trump's return to office, with many having refused to comply with various aspects of his controversial agenda. In their absence, Trump has largely replaced them with MAGA loyalists.

In her complaint, Fields admitted that she wasn't sure any formal investigation into the protesters was actually opened, as supervisors were regularly told not to put things in writing, leaving such directives in face-to-face meetings.

In a statement to NBC News, the DOJ insisted the complaint was politically motivated and that they and the FBI "have a responsibility to investigate any potential violations of federal law, and conspiracies to impede federal law enforcement and assaults on federal officers."