Man fleeing immigration raid in California fatally struck by car, officers say
A person was hit and killed on a Southern California freeway Thursday whereas he was working from an immigration raid at a House Depot, authorities mentioned.
Dylan Feik, the town supervisor of Monrovia, in Los Angeles County about 10 miles northeast of Pasadena, mentioned a police officer noticed the raid after the police division acquired a name about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement exercise within the space.
Through the exercise, somebody ran onto the 210 Freeway, he mentioned. Shortly afterward, the hearth division and emergency employees responded to a name of a car hitting a pedestrian.
The particular person was taken to a hospital and died from accidents sustained within the incident, Feik mentioned.
The California Freeway Patrol mentioned that the sufferer was a person and that the circumstances round his dying are below investigation. His identification has not been publicly launched.
Video recorded moments after the accident exhibits a person in a black T-shirt mendacity close to the within lane of the freeway.
Vincent Enriquez, who recorded the video, mentioned he thought at first it was a motorbike accident.
“I used to be type of confused on how he was on the freeway laying down,” he mentioned. “I assumed both he was hit by a automotive making an attempt to cross or he should’ve gotten out of the car from a automotive accident.”
The Division of Homeland Safety denied its brokers chased the particular person and mentioned they have no idea the particular person’s authorized standing.
“This particular person was not being pursued by any DHS regulation enforcement,” a spokesperson mentioned in an announcement. “We weren’t conscious of this incident or notified by California Freeway Patrol till hours after operations within the space had concluded.”
Feik mentioned that the town didn’t have any extra details about the operation, together with about any doable detentions, and that Monrovia has not acquired any communication from ICE.
Palmira Figueroa, spokesperson for the Nationwide Day Laborer Organizing Community, mentioned 13 employees had been detained throughout the raid. “It was a violent, aggressive bust,” she mentioned. “A few of them had been chasing employees in vehicles whereas they had been working away.”
Community organizers are attempting to achieve relations, in addition to the opposite males who had been detained, Figueroa mentioned.
Movies posted on social media seem to point out brokers detaining an individual within the car parking zone of the House Depot, which didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark in regards to the immigration exercise.
State Assemblymember John Harabedian, whose district contains Monrovia, mentioned in an announcement on his Instagram story that 10 folks had been detained within the raid.
“Raids like this don’t make our streets safer — they terrorize households, instill worry, and put lives in danger,” he mentioned.
Immigration officers have concentrated lots of their raids on House Depots and different dwelling enchancment retailers that day laborers are identified to frequent.
On Tuesday, Enforcement Removing Operations brokers performed a “focused enforcement operation” at a House Depot in Washington, D.C., as part of the Trump administration’s wider crackdown on immigrants and homeless folks within the metropolis.
An appeals court docket this month maintained a Los Angeles federal decide’s momentary restraining order that bars immigration brokers from utilizing folks’s spoken languages or jobs, like day laborer, or their presence at specific places as the only pretext to detain them.
