‘I can’t breathe,’ man tells ICE agents in Spanish five times during Portland arrest

On Sept. 11, a motorist shot a video of ICE agents arresting Víctor José Brito Vallejo on a Northeast Portland street.

Brito Vallejo pleaded for air as one agent lay on top of him and three other kneeling agents held him down. In the video, Brito Vallejo didn’t appear to be resisting.

“I can’t breathe,” he told the agents in Spanish five different times…

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