The Dept. of Homeland safety is responding, after a Bronx man says he was injured throughout what he describes as a case of mistaken identification involving immigration brokers in Norwood.
Jeury Concepcion informed NBC New York he suffered a concussion and wanted stitches after ICE brokers all of the sudden confronted him on Wednesday.
Concepcion says the brokers had their weapons drawn and that they didn’t establish themselves through the encounter. “They didn’t wish to discuss to me. They wish to kill me,” he informed Information 4 this week.
“They didn’t establish themselves as ICE,” he added. “They grabbed me and threw me on the ground and began hurting me.”
In an announcement to NBC New York, DHS says ICE was conducting a focused enforcement operation after they noticed somebody who matched the bodily description of the particular person they have been on the lookout for, exterior of that particular person's residence.In reference to Concepcion, the DHS acknowledged, "When regulation enforcement approached the person, he turned combative and refused to establish himself."The company additionally says a crowd of so-called “anti-ice agitators” swarmed officers, forcing them to take the person away to a protected place to complete the questioning. DHS says Concepcion was then promptly launched. The assertion provides that he was not arrested, and that DHS just isn’t arresting U.S. residents by mistake.
Concepcion says he plans to file a proper criticism.
