Six armed agents of the organization approached their arrested suspect, Carlitos Ricardo Parias, who was handcuffed and sitting on the side of the road, groaning as he held his right leg.
A small crowd had gathered around that day in June, according to a video of the incident. Three citizens are seen helping Parias, 44, a well-known Tiktok hacker, to his feet and escorting him to the car, as are immigration officers and local deputies. PARAS meets and holds the leg.
“Look, they saw him, they don’t do anything,” the woman shouts.
Another agent stops one of the men helping Parias through the car door, but quickly. The men then left, with the pariahs still wearing handbags in their hands.
A video of the detention released that was reviewed by the Times contradicted the public affairs of the Department of Homeland Security, which said that Parias had escaped from custody. ” It raises questions as to why the agents appeared to willingly let the suspect go, ultimately orchestrating the sequence of events that ended with the shooting that injured the pariah last week.
The Department of Homeland Security told the Times that Parias is an undocumented alien who “had escaped custody,” but did not respond to detailed questions about why the six armed agents attended. The charge of a federal criminal complaint for assault on a federal officer explained as much as I could handle. “
A spokesman for the US Marshals Service declined to comment, referring all questions to DHS.
The incident of June 13 was the result of an argument during the detention hearing of Parias on Friday morning, according to ASST. US Attyry. Chris Jones says “in the crowd of the scene, and while still in the hands, [Parias] he took it and ran away. ” Gabriela Rivera, Parias’ public defender, rejected that claim, arguing that officials “allowed him to go to the hospital” and “had the opportunity to follow up.”
“They waited a few months to do that,” Rivera said. “And it’s not just a lack of behavior that someone takes if they think you’re dangerous.”
“He was not given permission by law to go to the hospital,” Jones said, saying Parias was “removed” and “caused to terminate” several months ago.
A Federal judge ordered that the pariahs be released on $15,000 bond, with ankle protection. When Jones asked for his orderly stay until Monday, the judge refused, saying, “I’m not going to leave him in jail for the weekend.”
Polifing experts expressed concern about the June incident.
“None of this looks to me like a guy getting away.” said Jim Bueman, former officer of the Redlands Police Department, and founder of the Policing Institute, an organization that provides research and consulting on law enforcement issues. “It’s like agreeing to this or agreeing to that.”
The problem began that day when Parias, wearing a “press” vest, sat in the back seat of a black pickup truck, trailing Federal immigration agents.
According to the report of the lapd, deputy marshals helped the snow by being observed in the area of Figueroa and W. 48th St.
The dispatchers later told police that after the truck ran a red light, they stopped traffic and ordered the driver and front passenger out of the car.
Ice Agents said they saw the suspect hiding in the back and ordered him out of the truck, according to the report.
The suspect refused to come out and the agents pulled him out, made him stand in front of him and sat him down, police said. A video taken from the scene and shared in moments shows Parias handcuffed, moaning in pain.
Police said a large crowd surrounded the agents, video recording their work. After that, the police said that two unknown people got out of a gray sedan, grabbed the suspect by the hand from the agents, put him in the back of their car, and went to an unknown place.
In an interview with the times, the truck driver, who refused to be identified for fear of legal reprisals, said that the representatives of the car who were successful with the combined guns pointed at him, and planned to be the front passenger to get out of the car. He refused to run a red light.
The driver stopped, they followed the agent’s orders, but they admitted that Parias was reluctant to get out. He said he saw two agents open the door and drag the pariahs out of the truck before a third agent came to the rescue. That’s when, the driver said, Paria started screaming in pain.
“He was shouting: ‘Me están Torimando’ and” Me Romieron La Rodilla,’lalen la ambulelancia,'” said the driver. You hurt me. They broke my knee, call an ambulance.
The truck driver said agents did not ask about Parias’ immigration status and was never threatened with an arrest warrant.
Federal agents left to avoid confrontation with the crowd, according to the report of the lapd.
During a detention hearing on Friday, Jones told the judge that, later that day, police obtained warrants for the pariahs’ arrest.
Rivera described his client as a “citizen reporter” and said that on that day his June needed treatment “behind the scenes [officers] he held her. “
“Perhaps because of their illegal use of force against him, the police did not follow up or engage in further actions against him,” said Rivera in the court’s decision.
Police experts who reviewed the video of the incident said the crowd gathered at the June 13 arrest did not appear to threaten law enforcement officers, and the Federal agents on the ground did not appear to take any action that showed they cared about their safety because of the crowd.
“It’s not a violent confrontation,” Beemann said. “They don’t get overwhelmed by the crowd, and the body language of the officers doesn’t match what I’ve seen when officers are more concerned about their safety.”
The video of the incident doesn’t show the agents taking the precautions that the law enforcement would take if they were concerned about the crowd, Buemann said, such as setting up a perimeter, or creating a loophole to control their suspect while they last saw the crowd.
Instead, buemann shows, people in the crowd seem to go to the agents, just inches away from Paris while staying on the side of the road. When the three men travel to Paris to help him, none of the workers around seem to try to stop them immediately.
“This is absurd,” Buemann said. “They don’t do any of that and I can’t tell you that I’ve seen a similar situation.”
Teresa Magula of the OIR group, which works with local governments and law enforcement agencies on police reforms, said that it is possible that the agents decide to leave, or join the pariahs and leave, but it seems that the crowd is enlightened with any agents in the field.
But the decision to allow Parias to leave the scene, while still working hand-in-hand, stings.
“It’s wild,” said Magula. “It’s interesting that he’s being held by the hand in front of his body. That’s not a very common technique for someone who intends to arrest them.”
Earlier this week, pariahs appeared in hand-built houses to plead guilty against him. Prosecutors accused him of driving his car into the agents’ cars after they wrote to him and wrote to him outside the car.
The agent opened fire, wounding Parias and a Deputy US Marshal, who had been hit by a ricochet bullet.
Parias, his left arm in a blue sling, sat very still, listening to the proceedings through a Spanish interpreter. From time to time he groaned and looked up at the ceiling, looking pained. Rivera told the judge his client did not get the pain medication he needed for several hours.
After speaking with the 19-year-old son, Rivera asked the judge if the young man could hug his father, whom he had not seen for a week. Concerned about security, the judge refused to grant the request.
As Parias left the courtroom, his son called out to him through tears in Spanish.
“PA, VA, star astar. Estas Fuerte, PA,” she said. “Dad, you’ll be fine. You’re strong.”
Times Staff Wrive Lilor Jany contributed to this report.
