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Workers at two California surgical centers face federal charges after being accused of a brawl with ice agents. The July 9 incident, filmed on video, shows two workers getting in the way of the agent.
To identify workers, federal agents stopped SCA Health Ontario Advanced Surgery Center in the Los Angeles area for three days after the July 8 conflict, Covered Plain Cross ice agents chased suspicious illegal immigrants into the building.
Federal officials on July 25th said Jose de Jesus Ortega and Daniel Davila were accused of assaulting a federal officer and assaulting a conspiracy to prevent the federal officer from exonerating his duties and from threatening him. Ortega was arrested on July 25th, and said authorities are still pursuing Davira.
The video goes viral, showing two surgical centre workers screaming in scrubs, preventing one of the agents from restraining the man.
Federal officials criticized detainees for portraying them as clinic patients, saying that it was a “false story” in the media and online. Authorities say ice agents saw the truck stopped outside the building and run as he approached the man.
According to court records, the agent had no specific knowledge that the man who met the clinic was illegally living in the country and was following the truck that he was riding as part of an “roving patrol” of an unmarked vehicle.
“The illegal foreigner who was arrested inside the surgical center was not a patient,” US lawyer Bill Essay said in a statement. “He ran around for cover and these defendants tried to stop his anxiety by attacking our agents. It doesn’t matter who you are or where you work.
In a social media post on July 9, Homeland Security authorities said the man the agent is chasing is Honduras National Dennis Gylene Thollis. They said he lives illegally in the United States.
“He ended up near the Ontario Progressive Surgery Centre, where hospital staff attacked law enforcement and drugs on the facility,” DHS said in the post. “The staff then tried to block the arrest by locking the door and blocking law enforcement movements, calling officers who claimed there was a “trick.” ”
The video is one of the latest examples of people delaying or obstructing ice agents running President Donald Trump’s mass immigration initiative, sparking widespread protests. The identities of the two ice factors involved in surgical centre detention were not released.
Federal officials say ICE agents are increasingly being assaulted or targeted by community members.
