An employee at a Circle Pines Mexican restaurant was detained by ICE agents Tuesday night, and his screams for help were caught on camera.
According to a GoFundMe for the man arrested, the incident unfolded at about 5 p.m. Tuesday at Pancho’s Taqueria & Mexican Café in Circle Pines. Surveillance footage from the restaurant shows what appears to be two plain-clothes ICE officers in the parking lot. Restaurant workers say they had been watching people come and go for about 20 minutes.
The two agents walk toward a storage unit and removed the man, identified as “Kevin,” from it. According to the GoFundMe, the man is in the U.S. legally on a work permit. As he’s being pulled out of the storage unit, he screams “Ayuda!” the Spanish word for help, multiple times.
During the arrest, he lost his cell phone, glasses and hat.