"That detail comes from alarming new reporting from ProPublica that documents more than forty cases of ICE agents putting civilians in chokeholds and other moves that can block breathing. One of these civilians was tenth grader Arnoldo Bazan, who was getting McDonald's with his father, Arnulfo Bazan Carrillo, when they were pulled over by masked agents. According to Arnoldo, after several agents violently tackled his father - who is undocumented - to the ground, with one pressing a knee into his neck, another put the 16-year-old in a suffocating chokehold."
"Arnoldo took footage of the encounter, but his phone was confiscated after he was taken into custody. Later, when he used the Find My feature to track down his device, it led him to a vending machine for used electronics several miles away and near an ICE detention center, according to the reporting. Someone - we can only guess who - had apparently sold Arnoldo's phone after ICE had confiscated it."
More than forty cases involve ICE agents placing civilians in chokeholds and using other moves that can block breathing. A tenth grader, Arnoldo Bazan, was detained after a traffic stop while getting McDonald's with his father, Arnulfo Bazan Carrillo. Several agents allegedly tackled his undocumented father to the ground, with one pressing a knee into his neck, while an agent put the 16-year-old in a suffocating chokehold. Arnoldo screamed that he could not breathe and feared he would pass out and die. Arnoldo filmed the encounter, but his phone was confiscated and later tracked to a used-electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center. Someone apparently sold the phone after it was taken. The incident follows a recent killing by an ICE agent in Minneapolis and corresponds with increased ICE activity in several US cities.
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