"VAN NUYS, LOS ANGELES -- A car wash owner in Southern California has filed a $50 million civil rights claim after being arrested and injured during an immigration raid at his business. Surveillance video shows federal agents body slamming 79-year-old U.S. citizen Rafie Shouhed to the ground just outside of his car wash in Van Nuys, Los Angeles two weeks ago."
""They called themselves ICE people, which I don't believe they are ICE people," Shouhed said. "I have a heart condition. Three big people were sitting on my back. The way they held me down, sitting on me, and I asked them to let me go, which they absolutely would not pay no attention, and they took me to the detention center.""
Rafie Shouhed, a 79-year-old U.S. citizen and car wash owner in Van Nuys, says federal agents body-slammed and arrested him during an immigration raid, prompting a $50 million civil rights claim. Surveillance video shows agents pushing him inside the business and slamming him to the ground outside. He says agents restrained him with three people sitting on his back, ignored his proof of citizenship, and detained him for nearly 12 hours. At least five employees were taken in handcuffs. He reports multiple broken ribs, brain damage from a headfirst slam, and extensive bruising; family transported him to the hospital.
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