Before a man was deported to Mexico, his son says they were assaulted by unidentified officers in Houston

Arnoldo Bazan, 16, says the officers took him home after he told them he was a minor and U.S. citizen. His father was arrested and subsequently deported after they were pulled over on a recent morning.

Arnoldo Bazan, 16, said that on the morning of Oct. 23, his father, Arnulfo Bazan, was driving him to school when unmarked cars with flashing lights pulled them over.

“Me and my dad had nothing to hide,” the Houston teenager said at a news conference Monday. “We were confused, so we just pulled over in a parking lot.”

According to Arnoldo, the two cars then blocked them in, and masked law enforcement officers — whom he claimed did not have identifying badges on their vests — began hitting the windows. Arnoldo said he and his father were scared, so his father decided to drive away…

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