Overview
- Cellphone videos show ICE officers chase, tackle, and handcuff 19-year-old Jeury Concepcion in the Bronx’s Norwood neighborhood on Wednesday near Gun Hill Road and Hull Avenue.
- Agents realized they had the wrong person only after asking for his ID and phone while he was in custody, then left him at a park as he bled from a head wound that required stitches; he also reported a concussion.
- A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told People that ICE did not arrest Concepcion and said officers questioned him and promptly released him, adding that DHS is not arresting U.S. citizens by mistake.
- Rep. Ritchie Torres requested a federal investigation after reviewing the videos, and Concepcion’s family says it plans to file a formal complaint.
- The episode comes during a stepped-up enforcement push discussed by White House border czar Tom Homan, as New York leaders advance measures to curb local cooperation with ICE and increase accountability.