This U.S. Citizen Recorded an Immigration Arrest. Officers Told Him To Delete It or Face Charges.

Immigration officers were caught on video celebrating proudly after using chokeholds and a stun gun to arrest two undocumented immigrants in Florida. The owner of the video , an 18-year-old American citizen, was threatened and charged after he refused to delete the footage revealing the harsh tactics used by immigration authorities to meet the Trump administration's mass deportation goals. 

Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio was on his way to work on the morning of May 2 with his mother and two other men in North Palm Beach, Florida, when the vehicle was pulled over by a Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) officer, reported The Guardian . The initial reason for the stop is unclear, but after the FHP called in Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers, the peaceful traffic stop quickly turned violent. 

Laynez-Ambrosio began recording when CBP agents arrived, and a female officer can be heard asking if anyone in the car is an undocumented immigrant. One of Laynez-Ambrosio's friends answered that he was. "That's when they said, 'OK, let's go,'" Laynez-Ambrosio told The Guardian . Before anyone was able to exit the vehicle, CBP officers became aggressive. "[One officer] put his hand inside the window," he said, "popped the door open, grabbed my friend by the neck and had him in a chokehold."

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