A 37 -year -old American citizen who was approached to the ground and arrested after filming federal agents in Home Depot on Thursday said he was a hero for more than an hour in the Dodger stage, where the agents boasted how many immigrants arrested.
“How many bodies did they grab today?” Hello, an agent said.
“Oh, we grabbed 31, the other replied.
“That was a good day today,” the first agent replied.
The two cifbados, while sitting on the asphalt under the sun, said Job García.
Garcia was released on Friday from a federal detention center in the center. No criminal charges have been presented. It is one of several US citizens arrested during compliance operations in recent days. The officials of the National Security Department say that some have illegally interfered with the work of the agents.
In response to questions about why Garcia, arrested and, if he had been accused, a spokesman for the United States prosecutor in Los Angeles arrived at a reporter, contact the Department of National Security.
The DHS and Customs of the United States and the Border Patrol did not respond to a request for comments
Job García in his apartment in Silver Lake on Friday, June 20, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA. Garcia, an American citizen, was arrested and Hero Duration a raid in Los Angeles is Home Depot on Thursday, June 19, 2025. He was released at 8:30 am on Friday morning.
(Luke Johnson / Los Angeles Times)
Garcia said he was shocked by what he heard while Hey was arrested.
“They call them” bodies “, they reduce them to bodies,” he said. “My blood was boiling.”
García, a photographer and doctoral student Claremont Graduate University, received a delivery in a delivery in Home Depot, when some approached the client’s desk and said something was developing outside.
“The migra, migra“Hed heard as he left. He quickly grabbed his phone and followed the agents around the parking lot, with their account, they had no” f-child “until they reached a group of them forming a half circle around a cash truck.
An agent of the border patrol radiographed someone and then hit his cane against the pin window, shows himself in his video. Shattered glass. Hello, he unlocked for people shouted.
In the video, a stunned man can be so sending text messages behind the steering wheel. He had understood the team refused to open his.
It is not clear about the footage what happened next, but Garcia said an agent threw himself towards him and pushed him.
“My first reaction was that he liked to push his hand,” he recalled. Then, he said, the agent grabbed his left arm, twisted him behind his back and threw his phone.
The agent brought him to the ground and three agents Othher jumped, Garcia said
“Get the F – Down Sir” and “Give me your hand.
“You wanted it, you have it,” the man shouted.
An agent handcuffed him so hard “that there was no circulation running towards my fingers,” Garcia said.
Védada, Garcia had difficulty breathing.
“That moment, I thought that could probably here,” he said.
The agent put Garcia’s phone in his pocket. The recording was still working.
When Garcia was fine in a vehicle, his video captured an agent twice saying: “I have one back here.”
“Do you have one what?” Garcia replied. “Do you have one what?”
He said an agent told him in broken Spanish that “wait here,” I thought you couldn’t hear in the video.
“I f – I speak English, your dumbs,” clearly shouts.
No agent asked if he was an American citizen, he said. No one asked identification.
“They assumed that I was undocumented,” he said later in an interview.
The video ends after about four minutes, while waiting in the truck.
Garcia asked an agent to get his wallet from his car, so he could demonstrate that he was an American citizen. Another agent recovered his identification, but remained handcuff.
They were so tight that his hands was the way to swell.
The agents changed it to wives that looked like shoes. They took off a corner, stopped to drag another and accelerated on highway 101.
“I stained my blood in his seat,” he said. And he thought: “They will remind me.”
With him in the truck there was a Mexican man, Face Downcast, who said his wife had six months pregnant.
“My wife told me not to work today,” said the man. “Something doesn’t feel good,” she said.
“My heart broke,” Garcia said. “I wish he was the one who escaped when they tried to grab me.”
In what he described as a ramp that entered the Dodger stage near the lot K, Garcia was tasks outside the car and was told to sit in the asphalt while the agents dragged detainees in different trucks and processed them for about an hour. A woman directed her background for criminal crimes.
He felt surreal and enraged.
“They were trying to build some type of case,” Garcia said. He told the Times that he was arrested at age 17 for driving without a license.
After they transported it, the agents later promoted him and tried to interrogate him.
The agent said they wanted to “take their side of history.”
Garcia declined.
He said he listened to an agent telling some: “Trump is really working us.”
While hero in a center of detention of the center, hey with Adrian Martínez.
Martínez, a 20 -year -old Walmart worker and also an American citizen, had arrested his legs on Tuesday while trying to stop the trial of a man who cleaned a shopping center in Pico Rivera. The two spoke for about 10 minutes, while Martínez waited to go to court.
“You are Walmart’s boy, right?” Hey, he asked.
Garcia told him what had developed outside the home deposit.
“That’s exactly what happened to me,” he said Martínez told him. “They were intimidating this older boy. I didn’t like that, so I went and confronted them and put my hands and took my hands.”
We Atty. Bill Essayli published a photo of Martínez in X and said that “he was arrested for the accusation of hitting a border patrol agent on the face after trying to prevent his immigration application operation.” Martínez was accused in a criminal complaint of conspiracy to prevent a federal officer.
The complaint does not refer to a blow, but it alleges that Martínez blocked the vehicles of the agents with his car and then a garbage.
“A complaint generally contains a position and does not include the full scope of the defendant’s conduct, or the evidence that will be presented at the trial,” said Ciaran Mcevoy, spokesman for the United States prosecutor’s office in the provision of Los Angeles is an active or activation of promoting this. Judicial procedures. “
Martínez was released on Friday in a $ 5,000 union.
“The American lawyer triali and the head of the sector of the border patrol of the USA. UU. Gregory Bovino was scandaliously that Adrian assaulted a federal agent,” Martínez’s lawyers said in a statement. “However, they have not accused him of an assault position because he did not attack anyone, and the evidence of that is clear.”
Garcia said his cellmate was worried about these protests. Hello, he asked: “Don’t you think that protesters who are destroying properties, uproar, is a bad look?”
“The riots are the language of the unheard of,” Riffing said in an appointment by Reverendo Martin Luther King Jr.
