A person was hit and killed on a Southern California freeway Thursday whereas he was operating from an immigration raid at a House Depot, authorities stated.
Dylan Feik, the town supervisor of Monrovia, in Los Angeles County about 10 miles northeast of Pasadena, stated a police officer noticed the raid after the police division obtained a name about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement exercise within the space.
Throughout the exercise, somebody ran onto the 210 Freeway, he stated. Shortly afterward, the hearth division and emergency employees responded to a name of a automobile hitting a pedestrian.
The individual was taken to a hospital and died from accidents sustained within the incident, Feik stated.
The California Freeway Patrol stated that the sufferer was a person and that the circumstances round his demise are underneath investigation. His id has not been publicly launched.
Video recorded moments after the accident reveals a person in a black T-shirt mendacity close to the within lane of the freeway.
Vincent Enriquez, who recorded the video, stated he thought at first it was a bike accident.
“I used to be form of confused on how he was on the freeway laying down,” he stated. “I assumed both he was hit by a automobile attempting to cross or he should’ve gotten out of the automobile from a automobile accident.”
The Division of Homeland Safety denied its brokers chased the individual and stated they have no idea the individual’s authorized standing.
“This particular person was not being pursued by any DHS legislation enforcement,” a spokesperson stated 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 stated that the town didn’t have any further details about the operation, together with about any attainable detentions, and that Monrovia has not obtained any communication from ICE.
Palmira Figueroa, spokesperson for the Nationwide Day Laborer Organizing Community, stated 13 employees had been detained in the course of the raid. “It was a violent, aggressive bust,” she stated. “A few of them had been chasing employees in automobiles whereas they had been operating away.”
Community organizers are attempting to succeed in members of the family, in addition to the opposite males who had been detained, Figueroa stated.
Movies posted on social media seem to indicate brokers detaining an individual within the parking zone of the House Depot, which didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark concerning the immigration exercise.
State Assemblymember John Harabedian, whose district contains Monrovia, stated 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 concern, and put lives in danger,” he stated.
Immigration officers have concentrated a lot of their raids on House Depots and different residence enchancment retailers that day laborers are identified to frequent.
On Tuesday, Enforcement Elimination Operations brokers carried out 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 courtroom this month maintained a Los Angeles federal choose’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.
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