A man from southern California, an American citizen, speaks after he said that he was treated and detained during a migration raid outside the Hollywood home warehouse.
On June 18 /
At approximately 7:45 am, witnesses said that many unique SUVs arrived and soon the customers moved to about ten people gathered outside the store. A man said he saw that agents were treating a person on the ground without warning, and his face pressed in dirt before he was held.
One of the people in the raids was Garcia, a 37 -year -old doctoral student at Clairemont University of Graduate Studies. Garcia, an American citizen, works as a home depot of home on weekends to earn additional school.
That morning, he arrived at the store to pick up a delivery order when armed agents suddenly surrounded the parking lot. He realized what was happening, picked up his mobile phone and started recording the activity.
“At the end of the parking lot, they started gathering around a truck with a noble man, perhaps in the fifties or sixties of his life,” said Garcia for Mary Beth Makaddad of KTLA.
According to what was reported, the federal agent who worked Garcia on the ground during a migration raid in Hollywood on June 18, 2025. (KTLA) Half Dzina of the agents suspended Garcia strongly on the ground because they took him in the reservation during a migration raid outside the home warehouse in Hollywood on June 18, 2025 (KTLA) A man with the Federal agents is being held outside the Home Depot Store in Hollywood on June 18, 2025. The reported ice agent detains a man on Thursday, 19 June 2025 outside the Hollywood warehouse in Hollywood. (Ktla) Federal agents used a stick to destroy a man’s truck window before he was detained during a Hollywood migration raid on June 18, 2025. (KTLA) Home Depot Store in Hollywood, California. (Ktla)
In the video, the agents who tell the man hear the exit from his truck before using a stick to destroy the side driver window.
Garcia said: “They broke his window, when he said all passers -by who were registering,” You have no right to do so! “
Garcia and several others went to the man who was detained and began informing his rights. The video showed one of the federal agents growing and moving forward where screaming can be heard from passers -by.
Garcia said: “This is when I set out in my face,” Garcia said. “I am still registering, so he pushes me and puts my hands on me and pressed his hand and did not like it.”
The customer grabbed Garcia’s left hand and took it on the floor. Many agents ran quickly and helped install Garcia strongly on the ground.
He recalls, “There was someone who was his hands on my neck, in the area of my head, and two other factors were installed on my back pressing down.”
Garcia said that among the 30 detainees were brought to the Dodger Stadium, where the Federal agents eventually achieved his American nationality. He said that the stadium is used as a axis for the detainees.
Then he was transferred to the detention center of the capital in the center of Los Angeles, where it was held for 24 hours before his release.
Garcia said he was still recovering from several injuries that he incurred during the ordeal and said he intended to file a lawsuit for violent detention.
KTLA has communicated with the US Department of Internal Security to obtain details about Garcia’s detention and whether he will be accused of any crimes and awaiting a response.