Content warning: the linked story contains video showing a violent ICE arrest.

18-year-old Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio was on his way to work, showing his mother a “silly Tiktok,” when law enforcement pulled over the car [that] he was riding in. As immigration agents arrived on the scene he had the presence of mind to keep his phone out and begin recording.

What he captured was disturbing. Agents in tactical gear violently arrest multiple civilians who are not resisting, using a stun gun on at least one person. They tell the young man that he has no rights (a lie no matter what his legal status). After the violent arrest, not knowing [that] they’re being recorded, agents can be heard joking about the use of the stun gun, about getting a bonus for meeting arrest quotas, and about the idea that they will have to start shooting more immigrants during detention stops.

Though Laynez-Ambrosio is a U.S. citizen, he was still held by ICE for six hours after the incident. The Guardian summarizes that he “was charged with obstruction without violence and sentenced to 10 hours of community service and a four-hour anger management course. While in detention, [Laynez-Ambrosio] said, police threatened him with charges if he did not delete the video footage from his phone, but he refused.” His lawyer says [that] the charges were in retaliation for his filming.

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action. Emphasis original.)