{"id":501913,"date":"2026-10-20T06:38:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T06:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/501913\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T06:38:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T06:38:28","slug":"ice-agents-who-injured-long-beach-man-must-be-pulled-off-the-streets-and-investigated-mayor-says-long-beach-post-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/501913\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE agents who injured Long Beach man must be pulled off the streets and investigated, mayor says \u2022 Long Beach Post News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mayor of Long Beach says Immigration and Customs Enforcement must answer pressing questions about why its agents seriously injured a U.S. citizen<\/a> and then denied him medical attention until local police arrived.<\/p>\n

Ricardo Gonzalez was riding an e-bike in his North Long Beach neighborhood on Saturday when agents blocked him in with their car and knocked him to the ground, according to video from the scene<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Neighbors told the Long Beach Post<\/a> that agents then pinned him to the ground and tased him twice while he yelled that his arm was broken.<\/p>\n

Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson is now demanding those agents be pulled off the streets immediately. He wants the Department of Homeland Security, which supervises ICE, to explain why agents stopped Gonzalez, whether he was racially profiled and why he wasn\u2019t immediately given any medical aid.<\/p>\n

\u201cICE should not be operating in our communities, and it should be abolished,\u201d Richardson said in an interview Monday.<\/p>\n

Richardson said he sent a written complaint Monday<\/a> to the DHS Office of Inspector General and Long Beach\u2019s congressional representatives.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want a public report out,\u201d Richardson said. \u201cWe want acknowledgement of this complaint. We don\u2019t want this to just be received and filed. \u2026 We want to make sure they preserve evidence. All of those things, because our community shouldn\u2019t allow a paramilitary force to simply roam our streets and harass and commit violence without any accountability in the United States of America.\u201d<\/p>\n

DHS so far has not answered the Long Beach Post\u2019s questions about what happened.<\/p>\n

Since the Trump administration ramped up immigration enforcement, Long Beach has pushed back by joining a lawsuit accusing agents of racially profiling<\/a>, and, earlier, it broadened its sanctuary city law<\/a> to ban city contractors \u2014 not just employees \u2014 from participating in most immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n

Rep. Robert Garcia, who represents Long Beach in Congress, said ICE needs to be reined in and, ultimately, dismantled.<\/p>\n

\u201cICE and DHS are completely out of control,\u201d he said at a news conference Monday. He pledged to lead oversight efforts if Democrats win back the House in November.<\/p>\n

Neighbors who witnessed Gonzalez\u2019s detention said ICE agents in unmarked cars had been hanging around their neighborhood in North Long Beach for hours on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

Multiple neighbors, including Gonzalez, called police about the unmarked vehicles, according to Richardson. One neighbor told the Post that she wanted police to come move the cars that were blocking streets. Richardson said Gonzalez seemed worried about the tense situation and hoped police could de-escalate it.<\/p>\n

\"\"Videos circulating online show ICE agents pinning a Long Beach man to the ground. Neighbors quickly intervened. Photo courtesy stopice.net.<\/p>\n

Soon, Gonzalez was on he ground. A neighbor, who asked to be identified only by his first name, Joe, said agents knocked Gonzalez off his bike and accused him of throwing something at their car.<\/p>\n

A crowd of about 50 people formed around them. Neighbors demanded agents let Gonzalez go and began blocking their cars. The standoff, neighbors said, lasted about an hour.<\/p>\n

At some point, agents also called 911 \u201cdue to vehicle vandalism taking place and a subject in need of medical aid,\u201d police said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When police arrived, \u201cthey saw chaos taking place,\u201d according to Richardson. Video shows ICE agents letting officers take Gonzalez after looking at his wallet and finding identification. Richardson said police drove Gonzalez to a local fire station where paramedics then took him to the hospital.<\/p>\n

Gonzalez is still recovering, according to an online fundraiser<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Richardson said Gonzalez is a father who works with his hands to support his family. The mayor called him recently to see how he was doing and offer help. He said Gonzalez\u2019s biggest request was for privacy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat he really shared with me is that he doesn\u2019t really want the attention, and that he\u2019s mostly concerned about his children seeing him detained,\u201d Richardson said.<\/p>\n

Reporter Jacob Sisneros contributed to this article.<\/p>\n

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