A Venezuelan man was tackled in a New Hampshire courthouse and sent by ICE to Texas

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A Venezuelan antheral facing misdemeanor charges successful New Hampshire was apprehended successful a courthouse by national agents who besides knocked implicit a bystander arsenic they tackled him.

Recently released information camera footage from Nashua Circuit Court shows 2 agents throwing Arnuel Marquez Colmenarez to the level and handcuffing him connected Feb. 20. An older antheral utilizing a cane to locomotion besides ended up level connected his back.

Marquez Colmenarez, 33, had been charged Feb. 9 with drunken driving, driving without a licence and failing to supply accusation aft an accident. He was heading to his arraignment connected those charges erstwhile helium was apprehended, Nashua Police say.

Jared Neff, the tribunal liaison serviceman for the Hudson Police Department, said helium was successful the prosecutor’s bureau erstwhile helium heard a large commotion adjacent the elevators.

“There were voices yelling ‘Stop!’ and past a large ‘bang’ which sounded similar radical had fallen connected the crushed and were actively warring and struggling,” helium wrote successful an incidental report.

Neff said helium helped restrain Marquez Colmenarez, whom helium described arsenic actively resisting attempts to handcuff him. The agents were moving connected orders to detain immigrants successful the state illegally, Neff said. They told Neff they had tried to detain Marquez Colmenarez softly successful the elevator, but helium had fled.

A justice aboriginal issued a seat warrant aft helium failed to look for his arraignment. The authoritative handling the lawsuit wasn’t contacted by national agents earlier the arraignment and didn’t witnesser the arrest, constabulary said.

As of Monday, Colmenaraz was being held astatine a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement installation successful Texas, according to an online database. The bureau did not instantly respond to an email seeking comment.

Immigration officers were a increasing beingness astatine courthouses during President Donald Trump’s archetypal term, prompting pushback from judges and different section officials. The president has gone further successful his 2nd word by repealing a argumentation successful spot since 2011 for agents to mostly debar specified places arsenic schools, houses of worship and hospitals.

Under existent policy, migration officials tin marque arrests “in oregon adjacent courthouses erstwhile they person credible accusation that leads them to judge the targeted alien(s) is oregon volition beryllium present” and arsenic agelong arsenic they are not prohibited from doing truthful by authorities oregon section law.

In Boston, an ICE cause was held successful contempt past period aft helium detained a fishy portion helium was connected trial.