Job Garcia, a US citizen, told FOX 11 that he was making a delivery to a Home Depot in Los Angeles, CA, when he saw ICE vehicles pull in and block the exits to prevent people from driving away. Garcia started recording masked ICE agents on his phone when he was handcuffed and taken into custody:
I told him I was like, if you guys are going to be doing that, at least show your face. Like, show your ID. They didn’t have no form of identification. They were just indiscriminately, like just grabbing people and arresting them. And then I saw in the back there a cargo van.
They were asking the gentleman who was in there, an older gentleman, probably in his 60s, and after that he tapped on the window and he broke his window, started telling them he had no right to do that.
And that’s when the ICE agent lunged at me. He pushed me. He put his hands on me. So my initial reaction was to push his hand off my chest. And then that’s when 3 or 4 other agents swarmed in and tackled me.
It seemed like they wanted to charge me with with assault on a federal agent. But I think they started seeing the videos of what took place, and they saw that the aggressor was the ICE agent.
Because they were laughing, they were boasting about the amount of people that they grabbed like, oh, we grabbed 31 and they’re like, hahaha. That was a good day. Good job.
ICE agents took Garcia to Dodger Stadium, which he believes is used as a transfer point for detainees, before being moved to the Metropolitan Detention Center. He was eventually released on June 20. Garcia does not know what charges, if any, have been filed against him.
(Source: FOX 11)