A 20 -year -old American citizen who was detained after a violent struggle with federal immigration agents in Pico Rivera last week speaks after his last statement.
On June 17, the quarrel was unveiled in the car parking square at the sprawling retail center that includes a woe store, Wal -Mart, in the 8600 building from Washington Street.
in The accident footageAt least half of the federal law enforcement officers, they look at a conflict with a young man, later known to the family as Adrian Andrew Martinez, who worked in the near Wall Mart.
Amid the battle, someone can hear screaming, “He is an American citizen!”
Martinez seemed to fight again, but he was quickly transferred to the ground and overcame additional agents before he was placed in the back of a customs vehicle, protecting the American border and took away.
The 20 -year -old, who spoke with KTLA, Carlos Sosoto, suffered from bruises on his back and scratches all over his body, saying that his neck is still painful of “suffocation and seizure they were doing.”
According to Martinez, he just came out of the lunch break and saw the immigration authorities wondering about a guard. He said he was aware of continuous immigration enforcement activities in the area, and said he decided to intervene and speak.
Soon, things escalated from that point, according to the 20 -year -old.
Federal immigration agents who were seen in a violent conflict with a man in Pico Rivera on June 17, 2025. (Instagram/@Cameramanoscar) Federal immigration agents who were seen in a violent conflict with a man in Pico Rivera on June 17, 2025. (Instagram/@Cameramanoscar) Adrian Andrew Martinez, 20, in the Federal Law enforcement reservation that he claims to have a face -to -face -to -face agent in Pico Rivera on June 17, 2025. (USDoj) 
Adrian Martinez (R) appears in the image presented by the Miller Law collection.
“I was just trying to wake up and get them out of me,” KTLA told KTLA. “I didn’t know what was going on. I was very confused and afraid because they did not explain what they were doing.”
The 20 -year -old said that he was originally said that he was arrested on charges of assaulting a federal officer, a claim that he denies doing.
A day after the ordeal, US lawyer Bill Essaylli publishedVideo of the accident to his official account xHe said that the 20 -year -old was arrested by alleging that he had made Balcke “the border patrol agent in the face after he tried to hinder the immigration process.”
A few hours after this position, the President of the American border patrol, Gregory K. Bovino, republished Essayli’s charges, claiming that “a false narration was and was pushed upon the arrest of an American citizen.”
Since his release of a bond worth $ 5,000, Martinez’s lawyers have said that no charge was lifted. Instead, he was accused of a crime from the plot to hinder or injure a federal agent.
Mira Villarreal, a 20 -year -old mother, said it was difficult to reach her son during his federal detention.
“When I saw the video, I was angry and angry. I was sad and afraid. Many of the emotions that I used to go to,” she said to KTLA. “No one should be treated in this way. We all have the right to speak, feel, the way they acted, and their actions were wrong.”
Although he has since been separated from his function in Walmart, Martinez said he did not regret his actions.
He said, “I was just trying to stick to, and talking about a man who could not talk about himself.”
Martinez and his lawyer fight federal criminal charges