"He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend's car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again."
"He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages. "They started beating me right away when they arrested me," the Mexican immigrant recounted this week to The Associated Press, which recently reported on how his case contributed to mounting friction between federal immigration agents and a Minneapolis hospital."
"Officers claimed he ran headfirst into a wall The officers told nurses Castaneda Mondragon "purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall," an account his caregivers immediately doubted. A CT scan showed fractures to the front, back and both sides of his skull injuries a doctor told AP were inconsistent with a fall."
Alberto Castaneda Mondragon suffered severe head trauma after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulled him from a car on Jan. 8 in St. Paul, threw him to the ground, punched him and struck his head with a steel baton, and allegedly beat him again at a detention facility. He experienced eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages and was disoriented for days at Hennepin County Medical Center while ICE officers watched him. Caregivers disputed officers' claim that he ran into a wall, and a doctor said CT injuries were inconsistent with a fall. Some excessive-force claims related to the case have not been investigated by the federal government.
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