{"id":202505,"date":"2026-05-26T13:38:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/202505\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T13:38:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:38:22","slug":"video-shows-confrontation-between-apparent-ice-agents-and-manager-of-pittsburgh-area-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/202505\/","title":{"rendered":"Video shows confrontation between apparent ICE agents and manager of Pittsburgh-area restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A confrontation between apparent Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and the manager of a restaurant in Robinson Township was caught on video Monday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The owner of Central Diner and Grille told KDKA that ICE agents and the manager of the restaurant had a confrontation after the agents were denied permission to search the kitchen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Casa San Jos\u00e9, a non-profit community resource center in Pittsburgh that advocates for Latinos, and Frontline Dignity, a Pittsburgh-based immigration rights group, received calls about the alleged raid and showed up at the restaurant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Someone was pulled over by ICE on (state Route) 60, and they came into the restaurant,&#8221; Frontline Dignity volunteer Sky Wells said. &#8220;They parked and ran through the restaurant. ICE chased them. The manager told them they couldn&#8217;t be here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Central Diner and Grille&#8217;s owner said that the manager, who is a United States citizen, wanted agents to provide a search warrant, but the confrontation escalated and the manager was injured.<\/p>\n<p>A video taken from inside the restaurant appears to show the manager pinned to the diner floor by an agent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The agents had a knee on this guy,&#8221; Wells said. &#8220;This guy had apparently been in the hospital with heart issues the week before. So people were really concerned about him. They took him away, saying he was obstructing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The owner said workers were so shaken up that the restaurant had to close.<\/p>\n<p>Frontline Dignity and Central Diner and Grille&#8217;s owner said ICE searched the business, but they did not\u00a0find the person they were looking for.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>KDKA reached out to ICE for comment but had not heard back as of Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A confrontation between apparent Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and the manager of a restaurant in Robinson Township&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[894,73,75,74,743],"class_list":["post-202505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-allegheny-county","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}