LONG BEACH, Cali. (TNND) \u2014 California officials are calling for an investigation after a man was reportedly injured while being detained by federal immigration agents in Long Beach over the weekend.<\/p>\n
In a video shared by StopICE.net, agents appear to pin the man against a curb as he yells for help and repeatedly says his arm is broken.<\/p>\n
Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson said he filed a formal complaint <\/a>with the Department of Homeland Security, demanding accountability for the agents\u2019 actions. Richardson identified the man as Ricardo Gonzalez, a \u201cLong Beach resident, father, and former City employee.\u201d<\/p>\n The complaint alleges Gonzalez was repeatedly tased, forcibly restrained and seriously injured during Saturday\u2019s incident. Richardson called on DHS and ICE to remove the agents involved from field enforcement duties while an independent investigation is conducted.<\/p>\n \u201cLong Beach will not stay silent when our neighbors are harmed. A federal badge is not a license to brutalize people or disregard their constitutional rights,\u201d Richardson wrote on Facebook<\/a>. \u201cIf you are entrusted with enforcing the law, you must answer to it.\u201d<\/p>\n Long Beach police officers who responded to the scene said they saw \u201ca large group disturbance\u201d involving ICE agents and found a handcuffed man who was bleeding, according to a police department release<\/a>. <\/p>\n Officers took him to a nearby fire station, removed his handcuffs and transported him to a hospital, police said.<\/p>\n LBPD said ICE called for emergency assistance because of vehicle vandalism and a person needing medical aid. The department said its officers found a handcuffed, bleeding man and took him to a nearby fire station before he was transported to a hospital. The department said its officers were not involved in immigration enforcement and made no arrests.<\/p>\n ICE described the encounter as a targeted operation to arrest what it called an \u201cat-large criminal illegal alien.\u201d The agency said demonstrators tried to impede the operation, threaten officers and damage government vehicles despite being given lawful commands. ICE said its officers followed their training and used the minimum amount of force necessary.<\/p>\n Federal agents also denied that its officers hit a person riding a bike. According to officials, the man was arrested after smashing the mirror of a government vehicle, and that resisting arrest can result in injury. ICE said he was transferred to local police custody and that it is investigating potential charges over the vehicle damage.<\/p>\n The agency cited increases in assaults, vehicle attacks and death threats against law enforcement and said violence and efforts to obstruct officers must end.<\/p>\n