Carlitos Ricardo Parias, a TikToker who goes by Richard LA, was shot in South Los Angeles during an ICE raid. A man was shot in the arm by federal agents on Tuesday morning during an immigration operation in South Los Angeles, in which a deputy U.S. marshal was also injured by a ricochet bullet. The authorities say they were attempting to apprehend the man because he was in the country illegally, but the kicker is that the alleged undocumented migrant also happens to be a well-known TikToker who uses his platform to track and document ICE activity. According to ABC 7, 44-year-old Carlitos Ricardo Parias, who goes by Richard LA on TikTok, was charged with assault on a federal officer and is facing up to eight years in prison if he’s convicted. Parias was reportedly in his car while it was parked in the 400 block of East 20th Street near Trinity Street around 8:52 a.m., when federal agents boxed him in with their vehicles as part of what authorities described as a targeted traffic stop on an undocumented immigrant who had previously avoided capture. Pier Rojas, who also takes video of ICE agents and reportedly witnessed the stop, told ABC 7 in Spanish that Parias was in his car, and it appeared he was nervous and afraid, not wanting to get out when agents began firing rubber bullets and tear gas.
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siehe auch: TikTok streamer shot by ICE agents charged with assault on federal officer. A TikTok streamer shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in an operation that also wounded a U.S. deputy marshal remained in the hospital Wednesday, pushing back his court hearing on a charge of assaulting a federal officer to an undetermined date. In a federal criminal complaint, authorities accused Carlitos Ricardo Parias, 44, of ramming his car into agents’ vehicles after they boxed him in and tried to arrest him during an immigration enforcement operation. The operation was part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on unauthorized immigrants that has increasingly drawn scrutiny. Acting U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli said in a post on X that Parias rammed a Toyota Camry into the law enforcement vehicles in front of and behind him, “spun the tires, spewing smoke and debris into the air, causing the car to fishtail and causing agents to worry for their safety.” An agent then opened fire, wounding Parias and a deputy U.S. marshal, who was hit with a ricochet bullet. Both are expected to recover, Essayli said. Parias has been charged in a criminal complaint, which laid out details of Tuesday’s events.