An ICE Agent Accidentally Shot Him. He's Still Detained, Nearly Four Months Later

"On the afternoon of Oct. 21, 2025, Los Angeles resident Carlitos Ricardo Parias, a TikTok content creator and citizen journalist with more than 130,000 followers who was known for providing real-time documentation of the city's immigration enforcement purge, was shot and wounded by an agent of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In the wake of that shooting-which appears to have happened in entirely clumsy, unintentional fashion, also errantly wounding a U.S. Marshal in the process-"

"Parias was charged with attempting to assault and kill federal officers. Those charges have subsequently been dismissed by a judge, who ruled that the U.S. government had repeatedly violated Parias' constitutional rights ... but Parias remains in ICE detention anyway. Nearly four months after being accidentally shot by a reckless immigration agent, the victim is still languishing and awaiting a likely deportation, at a detention center where detainees plead that "they treat us like dogs in cages.""

"That continuing detention is because Carlitos Ricardo Parias is himself an undocumented migrant, one who has been living and working in the United States for more than 20 years. Since 2024, he has become a well-known figure among L.A.'s citizen journalists, known as "El Senor Richard" or "TikTokquero," shooting short-form breaking news coverage from street level, in his native Spanish."

Carlitos Ricardo Parias, a Los Angeles resident and TikTok citizen journalist with over 130,000 followers, was shot and wounded by an ICE agent on Oct. 21, 2025, during an attempted apprehension. The shooting appears clumsy and unintentional and also wounded a U.S. Marshal. Parias was charged with attempting to assault and kill federal officers, but a judge dismissed those charges after finding repeated U.S. government violations of his constitutional rights. Despite the dismissal, Parias remains in ICE detention and faces likely deportation months after the shooting. Parias is undocumented and has lived and worked in the U.S. for more than 20 years; he was recognized for Spanish-language street-level reporting.

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