SINGER ISLAND, Fla. — A violent Florida Highway Patrol and Border Patrol arrest was captured on camera during a traffic stop in South Florida.
It happened as authorities stopped a vehicle on Singer Island in Palm Beach County back in May.
An 18-year-old landscaper who’s a U.S. citizen and three of his co-workers, including his mother, were inside the vehicle at the time.
One of detainees was grabbed by the neck and placed in a chokehold.
One of the other people was also tased during the incident.
“Honestly, I was appalled by the video and I was also heartbroken to see a young man get tased like that, so painfully to the point where he actually started bleeding,” Lindsay McElroy, lead immigrant justice organizer at the Guatemalan-Maya Center said.
According to McElroy, 18-year-old Kenny Laynez, the Florida resident and U.S. citizen who recorded the video, was detained for six hours.
At one point in the video, agents are seen laughing and talking about a $30,000 bonus they hope to get, advocates who released the footage said.
The Palm Beach Post reports two of Laynez’s co-workers were undocumented and taken to the Krome Detention Center in Miami.
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