Updated

Updated · KABC-TV · Oct 31

ICE Agents Drag 27-Year-Old Venezuelan Away as Gun Is Pointed at Neighbor in North Hollywood

Updated

Updated · KABC-TV · Oct 31

ICE Agents Drag 27-Year-Old Venezuelan Away as Gun Is Pointed at Neighbor in North Hollywood

Q: What led an agent to allegedly point a gun at a bystander during a North Hollywood arrest, and what do official records show?

The gun was allegedly drawn after a bystander walking two dogs got involved during the arrest and handled an object that appears in video to have been dropped by an agent. Witnesses and footage indicate the object was likely a pepper-spray canister. After the bystander picked it up and tossed it into the street, one agent rushed toward him and another is seen pulling a handgun, pushing the man into bushes, and aiming the weapon at his face. The bystander was not detained. Video reviewed by multiple outlets shows the sequence: agents restraining a man on the sidewalk, a canister falling to the ground as they moved him, the dog walker moving toward it, then the brief armed confrontation. In later footage, an agent appears to advance again with a spray canister, and the bystander runs off. As for official records, they remain sparse. The Department of Homeland Security and ICE did not immediately explain why the original man was stopped, where he was taken, or whether any charges or immigration grounds were involved. Authorities also had not officially confirmed the detained man’s identity, though relatives and witnesses identified him in local reporting as 27-year-old Angel Luis Gonzalez Lobo of Venezuela. Publicly available records tied to this incident therefore show no formal agency account of the arrest’s basis or the weapon-pointing encounter. What exists so far is witness testimony, cellphone video, and statements from local officials calling for investigation.

3 articles · Updated · KABC-TV · Oct 31

Video from outside the Ivy at NOHO apartments shows masked ICE agents handcuffing and dragging 27-year-old Angel Luis Gonzalez Lobo, a Venezuelan man, to a vehicle as he cries out in pain.
A nearby neighbor walking two dogs then appears to have a gun pointed at his face and is shoved into a bush after picking up a canister from the sidewalk and saying, “I thought it was his!”
Witnesses said agents looked chaotic and used excessive force; one said the man on the ground may have been tased and nearly hogtied before being thrown into a truck.
Mayor Karen Bass called the incident unacceptable, said she was engaging the California Attorney General’s Office and referring the matter to Rep. Robert Garcia’s office for oversight of possible federal abuses.
DHS had not responded to requests for comment, while local outrage widened with Councilwoman Nithya Raman condemning what she called violent ICE actions in Los Angeles.