Stunning New Video Shows Trump ICE Agents Ramming American Citizen — Whom They Then Arrested

CNN’s Erin Burnett presented stunning new video of an incident in which Trump ICE agents rammed a U.S. citizen’s pickup truck before arresting the man, an activist who was tracking them.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have been involved in multiple confrontations with citizens over their efforts to round up migrants, including several ramming incidents that have been caught on video.

On Friday night’s edition of CNN’s OutFront, Burnett rolled out brand-new video of one such incident and interviewed the driver, a citizen named Leo Martinez who explained what happened in the stunning clip:

BURNETT: Breaking news, we have new video just into OUTFRONT and we’ll show it to you. What you’re looking at is ICE agents in an unmarked vehicle slamming into a U.S. citizens pickup truck. So that’s what you actually watch happening here. So that is an ICE agent in that car. The pickup truck is the American citizen.

Leo Martinez is an immigration rights volunteer in California. He was driving through the neighborhood monitoring ICE activity, which he had been doing for months before that. The agents who have been involved with ICE raids knew who he was.

But in this case, everything was different. Agents rammed his truck and then they took him into custody. The incident ignited outrage and protests. Martinez was hospitalized after that car rammed into him. Later, after that, they booked him into a detention center. Of course, he’s an American citizen.

CNN has reached out to both DHS and ICE repeatedly since yesterday. So far, no response from either agency, but Leo Martinez is OUTFRONT now in his first national interview since the incident.

And, Leo, I really appreciate your taking the time. I’m glad you’re okay.

When we watch that footage and we’ll play it again. But you’re in the pickup truck and then you’re rammed, and I know you have dashcam footage of all of the time leading up to that actual moment as well. The ICE agents in the SUV, you then sort of seem to be driving in circles as we can watch this. Can you explain to me exactly what was happening here?

LEO MARTINEZ, U.S. CITIZEN & IMMIGRATION RIGHTS VOLUNTEER DETAINED AFTER CRASH: Yeah, this was the first time in all the months that we’ve been doing this that the agents turned on us being legal observers, we keep our distance, we keep our safe distance to keep tabs on where they’re at. But this is the first time that they turn their aggression towards us and really started coming after us. So that’s something new. I was trying to stay away from them is why we

were moving in circles, because they kept following me and moving towards me. And once they hit me, I knew that it was a — it was a new ball game and we were going to have to deal with this a little differently in the future, because now they have no problem with — they’ve already pulled guns on us, they’ve already done a multitude of things, but one thing is coming after us in their vehicles.

Watch above via CNN’s OutFront.