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 stated.
Dylan Feik, 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 acquired a name about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement exercise within the space.
In the course of 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 beneath 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 motorbike 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 automotive attempting to cross or he should’ve gotten out of the automobile from a automotive 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 town didn’t have any further details about the operation, together with about any attainable detentions, and that Monrovia has not acquired any communication from ICE.
Palmira Figueroa, spokesperson for the Nationwide Day Laborer Organizing Community, stated 13 employees have been detained throughout the raid. “It was a violent, aggressive bust,” she stated. “A few of them have been chasing employees in automobiles whereas they have been working away.”
Community organizers try to achieve members of the family, in addition to the opposite males who have been detained, Figueroa stated.
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 concerning the immigration exercise.
State Assemblymember John Harabedian, whose district contains Monrovia, stated in an announcement on his Instagram story that 10 individuals have 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 stated.
Immigration officers have concentrated a lot of their raids on House Depots and different dwelling enchancment retailers that day laborers are identified to frequent.
On Tuesday, Enforcement Removing 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 individuals within the metropolis.
An appeals court docket this month maintained a Los Angeles federal choose’s short-term restraining order that bars immigration brokers from utilizing individuals’s spoken languages or jobs, like day laborer, or their presence at specific areas as the only pretext to detain them.
