An ICE takedown caught on camera in the Bronx left a 19-year-old bleeding and requiring stitches to his head. It wasn’t until later that agents found out they had the wrong person.
Cellphone video showed the teen get tackled and detained by agents Wednesday afternoon at Gun Hill Road and Hull Avenue. Once agents figured out they had made a mistake, they dropped him off at a park, bloody and bruised.
Jeury Concepcion told NBC New York he was also suffering from a concussion as a result of his encounter with federal immigration agents.
The incident was captured by several pieces of video obtained by News 4. In one video, a federal agent can be seen running with his gun drawn toward Concepcion as he was standing in front of a barber shop on Hull Avenue.
The teen said he was approached by multiple ICE agents who ordered him to stop, then brought him to the ground and handcuffed him.
Cellphone video from the incident showed agents life the handcuffed 19-year-old off the ground, as blood dripped from his head. Federal agents walked Concepcion away, pressing him up against a car before they eventually put him in the vehicle and left.
During the ride, Concepcion said the agents asked him for his ID and cellphone. That’s when they realized they had made a mistake, he said.
“He told me he’s sorry, that he [was] confusing me with somebody else and that it would never happen again, and that he don’t want me to think they did it,” Concepcion said. “And I told him I’m going to report them.”
Concepcion said the agents dropped him off at a park he was unfamiliar with. He was eventually reunited with his mother, who took him to a hospital to get checked out.
The teen said they plan to file a complaint. The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The incident comes as Border Czar Tom Homan has threatened to flood New York City with immigration agents as the state legislature considers legislation backed by Gov. Kathy Hochul that would limit local cooperation with federal immigration operations.
However, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Thursday morning said he was not looking to send a surge of agents to the state right now.
