Man detained by ICE near Roosevelt High School
Video shows ICE agents pinning a man down and placing him in handcuffs.
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The Roosevelt community is concerned about an incident involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents caught on camera Thursday morning.
Video shows ICE agents pinning a man down and placing him in handcuffs. It happened in a neighborhood on East Clinton Street near Park Avenue in Roosevelt
Islip Forward confirms that one person was taken into custody. They say students were passing by on their way to school during the incident.
One woman who lives nearby said in Spanish, “It’s very delicate because, for kids, that affects them mentally to see something like that happening to people. It’s something that’s very hard.”
Islip Forward said in a statement to News 12, “Children should not have to witness armed officers detaining people on their way to class. Parents should not have to wonder whether dropping their child off at school could expose them to enforcement activity. This is not public safety—it is intimidation.”
“It takes you back to what happened in Minnesota,” said Stewart Fellner, of Wantagh. “If they're going after criminals, I'm OK with it. But when they're going after people that are working hard and have been here for a long period of time... I have a problem with that.”
News 12 reached out to ICE to ask who the person in the video was and why he was arrested and is still waiting to hear back.
