ICE Agents Smash Car Window to Detain Guatemala Man

A Massachusetts family is demanding answers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, complaining its agents smashed a car window with a hammer and arrested a man who they claim had applied for asylum.

A lawyer for the family also claims agents were not looking for Juan Francisco Mendez when they detained him Monday in New Bedford, Massachusetts, as he drove to a dentist appointment. The lawyer, Ondine Galvez-Sniffin, told The Associated Press during an interview that the agents claimed they were looking for another man with a different name before they dragged him and his wife out of the car.

The arrest, recorded on video by Mendez's wife Marilu Domingo Ortiz, shows ICE agents using a hammer to smash the car window and then grab Ortiz. The family believes Mendez is being held at a facility in Dover, New Hampshire.

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[spacespector]

This is one of the few videos that ICE wasn’t in plain clothes. The important thing is everyone must have due process. Without that the Constitution means nothing.

[jrdubois]

"Dang, the doors shut, guys....looks like shes an american citizen now. Nothing we can doors shut, guys." Lololol

[vilmamaritz]

So if it turns out that this person is legal, who pays for the damage to the car? O would not open door to people like that either.

[Bruce-kxku]

Why is this one a “guatemala man” but another an El Salvadorean man is a “Maryland man”

[RayMauro-zqie]

Keep up the good work make America great again

[XtinaB]

What would happen if they did this to a US citizen? At the rate that errors are made in this administration it’s inevitable they will attack a U S citizen. What are our rights when they don’t allow a phone call and don’t tell you anything. What would compensation if my rights were violated

[addictedmonster]

I mean. Police will do the same thing if you won't get out of a car. This is not news

[Creed]

Dont identify yourself or show a badge number. That's how you get shot in the face. Thank God I live in a hold your ground state

[joeg]

They can’t break the window if you open it like you were ordered to

[jjarvis]

Funny how the ICE agents vest clearly says "Police".. aint it?

[sundager]

Who had a criminal record and order for deportation and they were resisting arrest happens all the time to actual US citizens who do the same thing

[lemondude]

You can try this at home and get the same result for not obeying the officers orders.

[tommylucas]

Wouldn't it be great if democrats loved America and wanted it to do good

[RobbyO-pp]

And in other news no one cares about….

[kevinwater]

technically he also paid for that window through taxes so he actually broke his window