A person who was arrested Wednesday by federal brokers in Lynn, Massachusetts, was launched a day later, and he alleges he was assaulted when he was taken into custody.
Alejandro Reyes stated he was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement regardless of telling them on a number of events that he is a authorized resident.
Reyes advised Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra the brokers took him to a cemetery — not a detention middle — and beat him a number of occasions in a darkish space. He confirmed wounds throughout his physique that he stated he suffered within the ordeal.
Marcelo Gomes Da Silva, who was detained by immigration authorities on his technique to volleyball apply this weekend, was reunited with family members after being launched on bond Thursday.
“They took me from there, they loaded me up, they usually took me to the cemetery that’s all the best way up Boylston Road,” Reyes stated in Spanish.
There, he stated he was attacked by officers who shouted obscenities at him.
“After we obtained to the highest of the cemetery, we stopped there they usually took off their vests as a result of that is the place they’ve the digicam,” he stated. “Then they pulled me out of the automobile and kicked me.”
Reyes says that after repeatedly asking them to test his pockets, one of many officers lastly did so. They realized he did, actually, have his inexperienced card, however questioned whether or not it was actual.
“‘I do not know, possibly it is pretend’ … The opposite man says, ‘No, it is actual’ … That is after they lastly stopped,” he stated. “They had been planning to maintain hitting me as a result of they did not have good intentions. They took me to a cemetery.”
Even so, the threats continued.
“Do you suppose you are an enormous shot simply because you will have a inexperienced card? I am going to make sure that they revoke that inexperienced card of yours,” Reyes stated, recalling what brokers advised him. “‘I will do all the things I can to get this paper revoked,’ an immigration officer advised me.”
He stated he hopes authorities examine the assault so it does not occur to anybody else.
“There’s proof. I imagine there are cameras. I am not mendacity, they’re abusing their energy. Similar to what occurred to me, it may occur to different individuals,” Reyes stated. “I would not want what occurred to me on anybody.”
After that interplay with the officers, Reyes stated he was taken to the Burlington Detention Heart. Whereas there, he claims he wasn’t even given water. His brother, who was with him on the time of the arrest, stays in custody, and the circumstances are unknown.
Telemundo New England reached out to ICE for remark, however has not but acquired a response.
