LA car wash owner, 79, sues for $50 million claiming he was body slammed during immigration raid
Old Los Angeles Region Car Washing Owner Federal Case immigrant officialsHe claimed that the masked civil servants had pushed him to the ground, that he had stuck on him, and in September he kept him without accusing or medical assistance for 12 hours during the migrant raid.
The $ 50 million case comes from the 79 -year -old Rafie Ollah Shoveled, the owner of Valley Car Wash in Van Nuys, and calls the internal security, customs and border protection, border patrol and migration and customs conservation Department.
Civil Rights Lawyer V. James Desimone, representing Shouled, said, “The only thing these ice agents said to him is that three of them are stacked on him.
Desimone, the surveillance video “emotionless, daily way” immigration agents operate in Los Angeles, civil servants resorted to “immediately pushing”, he added.
He claims to be a suit masquerade agents On September 9, he raided the business. When he went to get information about the 79 -year -old operation, it was claimed that the agents were pushed him to the ground immediately.
The immigration agents gathered the 79 -year -old US citizen and left him with serious injuries during raids at the beginning of this month.
Later, while Shoveled tried to guarantee the legal status of the employees arrested, he was allegedly forced to the ground, this time with three agents on it because he claimed that he needed an ambulance and could not breathe.
It was claimed that the owner of the business was later taken to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles, where medical intervention was rejected, and then he was later released free of charge.
Steal left it with the shocking symptoms of broken ribs, a wounded elbow and traumatic brain damage.
“(I told them) I have a heart. I’m an old man, I beg them, ‘let me go. I have to go to the hospital'” said NBC Los Angeles during the incident.
The Trump Administration claims that the 9th of September raid has led to the arrest of five undocumented immigrants, including the recurrent criminal (Governor Gavin Newsom)
“I thought this is a beautiful country, a good country. Why do they do this kind of thing to you?”
Department of Internal Security Independent The action was a “targeted immigration operation an, which resulted in the arrest of five -unpaid immigrants from Guatemala and Mexico in 2015, which was issued twice in 2015.
“The owner of Valley Car Wash, a US citizen, blocked the operation and was arrested for attacked and blocked a federal officer,” DHS added.
The widespread migration raids in the Los Angeles region have been a source of continuous debate.
Migration raids in the Los Angeles region caused federal troops’ cases, protests and intervention (Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved)
During the summer, the Trump administration sent the national guard and US Maritime Post Units to the city during the summer against mass protests against raids.
The Administration also faced a federal case that accused immigrant agents of making “wick patrols özengen aiming for perceived ethnic origins, languages and legal status.
The sub -courts temporarily paused such tactics and found that it may mean creating illegal profiles, but this month, the US Supreme Court gave authorities permission to continue following an emergency appeal from the Trump administration.
Last week, California He signed an invoice This will prohibit most law enforcement force from wearing facial masks, including federal agents. Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom said masks reminded the secret police operating in authoritarian regimes.
The White House said Federal officials are not bound by law and will continue to wear a mask.
