Rochester man says immigration agents left him ‘like a dog,’ incapacitated on the street

A 57-year-old Rochester man says he was pepper-sprayed, shocked with a stun gun and left on the side of the road after federal agents tried to detain members of his landscaping crew.

“I fell and I fractured my wrist, and they just left me there like I’m an animal,” said Hipolito Mateo, speaking on his front lawn in northeast Rochester after returning home from urgent care.

“They just left me there,” he continued. “I can’t move. And luckily that I was able to roll myself to the curb, because I know I heard a vehicle coming.”…

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