By The Opinion
Jeury Concepciona 19-year-old man born in New York, reported having been mistakenly detained during an operation by the Immigration and Retainer Service of Customs Enforcement (ICE) in it Bronx.
The incident, which was recorded in videos recorded with mobile phones, ended with the teenager injured in the head and later abandoned in a park by the agents, according to his testimony.
Jeury Concepcion suggested Files 12 that he used to be on his manner to win a haircut with a friend when they noticed they had been adopted. Moments later, he says ICE brokers started chasing him earlier than entertaining him.
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Concepcion was intercepted Wednesday afternoon near the intersection of Gun Hill Avenue and Hull Avenuein the neighborhood of Norwoodin it Bronx. The images released show several federal agents chasing him and knocking him down in front of a Hull Avenue Hair Salon.
ICE detains Concepcion in the Bronx
In one of the videos, an agent is seen approaching with his gun drawn while Concepcion remains in the area. According to the young man’s story, Several officers ordered him to stop, threw him to the ground and handcuffed him. during the operation.
Another recording shows the agents lifting the handcuffed young man while was bleeding from the head. He was subsequently pushed against a car before being put into the official vehicle.
Witnesses to the operation stated that the young man repeated that skills American citizen while skills immobilized by the agents.
ICE admitted the confusion
Concepcion declared to NBC Contemporary York that during the journey the agents asked for his identification and mobile phone. As he explained, it was then that they realized that they had confused his identity.
“He told me he was sorry, that he had mistaken me for someone else and that it wouldn’t happen again, and that he didn’t want me to think that they had done it,” Concepcion said.
“And I told him that I was going to report them.”stated the young man.
The affected young man assured that the agents later left him in a park that he did not know, still bloody and beaten. He later managed to reunite with his mother, who took him to a sanatorium to receive medical attention.
According to what he told NBC Contemporary York, suffered a concussion and needed stitches in head after the meeting with federal agents.
Jeury Concepcion’s family demands investigation
Jeury Concepcion’s family requested an investigation into what happened and maintained that it was all a identity confusion during the ICE operation in New York.
The case occurs in the middle of the discussion about the immigration actions in the city. The call “border czar”, Tom Homanpreviously warned about a possible increase in immigration agents in New York, while at the state level an initiative promoted by the governor is being analyzed Kathy Hochul to restrict local collaboration with federal immigration operations.
However, the secretary of National Securityhim, Markwayne Mullinstated Thursday that there is currently no intention to deploy a surge of federal agents to the state.
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