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Outcry after ICE violently detains US citizen walking to high school: ‘I thought they were going to kill me’

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Outcry after ICE violently detains US citizen walking to high school: ‘I thought they were going to kill me’

Agents pinned down Erik Zepeda, a 20-year-old with disabilities, and left him with a broken wrist in latest example of ICE brutality as activity surges in CaliforniaThe violent ICE detention of a US citizen with disabilities as he walked to his high school has sparked outrage in California where leaders are condemning the incident as racial profiling and calling on authorities to investigate.Erik Zepeda, a 20-year-old high school student, was stopped by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers last month in the small agricultural city of Santa Maria, famed for its strawberry harvest,

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