Librarian Kerry Littel recorded video of the arrest, previously telling the Tribune that she saw an agent kneeling on the man’s back and apparently punching him on the side of the head while residents shouted, “He can’t breathe!”
“They had yanked his shoes off, they were shoving him on the ground multiple times,” Littel said. “It got to the level where they punched him. They kicked him. They slammed his head on the ground.”
After video of the violent takedown circulated on social media and in the media, the Department of Homeland Security posted on X that the young man “grabbed the agent’s genitals and squeezed them,” which is why the agent “delivered several defensive strikes to the agitator to free his genitals from the agitator’s vise.”
In her ruling, Judge Ellis noted that witness video did not clearly show the man grabbing the agent’s genitals, and that DHS did not provide evidence to support the allegation.
The young man’s father had harsher words for the agency’s statement, calling it “an absolute bald-faced lie, and the video proves it’s a lie. My son’s hands never went by the guy’s genitals. … It’s just ridiculous.”
The father told Pioneer Press he supports Trump “in many ways,” but he doesn’t support the massive sweep of people based on their ethnicity.
“It’s craziness, and I think what set me over the edge was they put a statement from DHS that said that my son grabbed the guy’s nuts,” he said. “I’m very conflicted, because I voted for Trump. I like many of the policies. I just believe this has gone way too far, and it’s not what he said it was going to be.”
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