The Dept. of Homeland security is responding, after a Bronx man says he was injured during what he describes as a case of mistaken identity involving immigration agents in Norwood.
Jeury Concepcion told NBC New York he suffered a concussion and needed stitches after ICE agents suddenly confronted him on Wednesday.
Concepcion says the agents had their guns drawn and that they did not identify themselves during the encounter. “They didn’t want to talk to me. They want to kill me,” he told News 4 this week.
“They didn’t identify themselves as ICE,” he added. “They grabbed me and threw me on the floor and started hurting me.”
In a statement to NBC New York, DHS says ICE was conducting a targeted enforcement operation when they saw someone who matched the physical description of the person they were looking for, outside of that person's residence.In reference to Concepcion, the DHS stated, "When law enforcement approached the individual, he became combative and refused to identify himself."The agency also says a crowd of so-called “anti-ice agitators” swarmed officers, forcing them to take the man away to a safe place to finish the questioning. DHS says Concepcion was then promptly released. The statement adds that he was not arrested, and that DHS is not arresting U.S. citizens by mistake.
Concepcion says he plans to file a formal complaint.
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