The Times obtained videos showing Tuesday’s incident in South Los Angeles that injured a deputy U.S. marshal and a TikTok streamer during an immigration enforcement operation and its aftermath.
Authorities say the deputy marshal was hit by a ricochet bullet fired by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent at the streamer, Carlitos Ricardo Parias, who was charged Tuesday night with assault on a federal agent. Both suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
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Here’s what the videos show:
- Video shows a large amount of smoke coming from a sedan wedged between two law enforcement vehicles.
- For 25 seconds, smoke continues to rise from the car, while the sound of an engine rises and falls repeatedly.
- Then an officer yells, “Shoot him with a pepper ball!” »
- As the noise of the vehicle subsides, 11 gunshots ring out in rapid succession. The video does not show who fired the shots.
- A second video shows the aftermath of the shooting.
- Several police officers surround the sedan. They eventually open the door and appear to let someone out. The person screams in pain. The officer urged those outside the frame to “come back.”
- The suspect is placed against a wall and handcuffed. Several officers surround him as he periodically screams.
- A group of firefighters eventually approached the man and helped him.
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Suspect hospitalized
Parias remained in the hospital Wednesday, postponing his arraignment on charges of assaulting a federal agent indefinitely.
In a federal criminal complaint, authorities accused Parias, 44, of ramming his car into agents’ vehicles after they boxed him in and tried to arrest him during an immigration enforcement operation.
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Acting U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli said in an article on
An officer then opened fire, wounding Parias and a deputy U.S. marshal, who authorities said was struck by a ricocheting bullet. Both are expected to recover, Essayli said.
In an affidavit, a special agent with Homeland Security Investigations said ICE and the United States Marshals Service set up surveillance Tuesday in the neighborhood around a home in the 400 block of 20th Street, where they believed Parias might be found.
They had set up surveillance because Parias “was the subject of an administrative arrest warrant issued as part of a federal immigration proceeding.” Federal agents had previously attempted to arrest Parias, according to the complaint, but he had eluded capture.
