Alleged escapes, collisions, and shootings: A pattern emerges at ICE roadside stops

White smoke rises from the wheels of a Toyota Camry hemmed in by pickup trucks belonging to immigration officers who have chased the driver down a street in South Los Angeles. It seems the driver wants to flee, but there is no escape. One of the officers on the scene pulls out his pistol and fires. The man behind the wheel, an undocumented Mexican named Carlitos Ricardo Parias, but better known by his TikTok handle, “Richard LA,” who documents and reports on immigration raids, gets a bullet in his arm. Another bullet hits the hand of a sheriff’s office deputy. Parias is taken to hospital, accused of assaulting a federal officer, and will have to face immigration proceedings.

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