An elderly Los Angeles-area car wash owner is suing federal immigration authorities, claiming masked officers shoved him to the ground, piled on top of him, and detained him without charges or medical care for 12 hours during a September raid.
The $50 million lawsuit was filed by Rafie Ollah Shouhed, 79, owner of Valley Car Wash in Van Nuys. The suit names the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection, the Border Patrol, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Civil rights attorney V. James DeSimone, representing Shouhed, said during a Thursday press conference, “The only thing that those ICE agents said to him, as three of them piled on top of him… They said, ‘You don’t f*** with ICE.’”
DeSimone added that surveillance footage shows “the callous, casual way” immigration officers operate across Los Angeles, often resorting to force immediately…