Residents reported seeing Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Hyattsville early during the Wednesday morning commute.
Between 8am and 9am, local photographer Raphi Talisman took a video of an ICE arrest in the middle of Hamilton St at its intersection with Queens Chapel and posted it to social media.
In the video, a man repeatedly yells, “Help, me!” “It’s ICE,” “I live in America, I love you America,” “police!” and “let me go” in English and Spanish as he is pinned to the ground. At one point, an agent’s gun falls to the ground, the man reaches towards it in the struggle, and the agent scrambles to pick it up, briefly aiming the gun at commuters and onlookers as he stands…