A video showing an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrest in Prince George’s County has left a community on edge.
It appears to show ICE officers pinning a man to the ground in Hyattsville in the middle of an intersection. During the scuffle, an agent’s firearm appears to get loose and once retrieved, the agent seems to point it toward bystanders.
In a statement from Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, the agency tells WJZ Job Arias-Mendoza was arrested Sept. 24, calling him a “dangerous criminal”. The agency says he entered the United States illegally from El Salvador at an unknown date and time. It also says Arias-Mendoza has prior arrests for first-degree assault, second-degree assault, reckless endangerment, concealing a dangerous weapon and resisting arrest…