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SunSeeker

(56,686 posts)
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 02:58 PM Wednesday

ICE breaks ribs and dislocates elbow of 80 yr old US citizen car wash owner.

Last edited Wed Sep 17, 2025, 08:06 PM - Edit history (1)

The 80-year-old owner of a Van Nuys car wash who was injured during a raid by ICE agents last week shared surveillance video of the incident with KTLA on Tuesday.

Valley Car Wash owner Rafie Shouhed said five of his employees were detained by agents during the Sept. 9 raid, but officials have yet to confirm.

Shouhed, who told KTLA’s Carlos Saucedo that he is a U.S. citizen, said he wanted to get answers from the agents and was not trying to intervene.

“They grabbed one of my guys, and I told them, hold on, some of these people they have papers, they have the documentation here. And the only thing they said was, ‘You don’t F with ICE. We are here,’ and they threw me on the floor … and three of them, they jumped on me and they were sitting on me,” Shouhed said.


Video of ICE assaulting him at link:
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/van-nuys-car-wash-owner-raided-by-ice-speaks-out/

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Lovie777

(20,258 posts)
1. Didn't our 6 asswipe RW US SC justices agree with ICE...............
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 03:05 PM
Wednesday

and allowed more aggressive method can be used regarding grabbing immigrants who in their eyes are less human.

barbtries

(30,767 posts)
7. he was asking them who are you, what are you doing?
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 06:03 PM
Wednesday

they won't answer questions, they only brutalize people for asking them.

i'm still trying to pick my jaw up from the floor after watching the video. and i want to cry. it's so wrong.

Bernardo de La Paz

(58,424 posts)
8. Yes. Questioning their authority without instant obedience is criticism as far as they are concerned. . . . nt
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 06:45 PM
Wednesday

Botany

(75,307 posts)
3. I wonder how many of those ICE agents were some of the 150,000 bad cops that Trump had their federal
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 03:24 PM
Wednesday

… records expunged or J-6th shits that Trump pardoned?



This not my America this is fascism. And it is only going to get worse.


Mussolini had his Black Shirts and now Trump has his Ice agents.

barbtries

(30,767 posts)
6. That was hard to watch.
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 06:01 PM
Wednesday

80 years old and they threw him around like a rag doll. arrested him and he was injured.

fuck. this is intolerable.

SunSeeker

(56,686 posts)
9. Yes, they broke his ribs and dislocated his elbow, then denied him medical care.
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 08:08 PM
Wednesday

They wouldn't even give him food or water or even let his family give him his medicine. They could have killed him.

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