Jeury Concepcion, a 19 year-old born in New York, reported having been detained by error during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) operation in the Bronx.

The incident, which was recorded in videos recorded with mobile phones, ended with the teenager injured in the head and later abandoned in a park by the agents, according to his testimony.

Concepcion was intercepted on Wednesday afternoon near the intersection of Gun Hill Road and Hull Avenue, in the Norwood neighborhood. In the Bronx. The released images show several federal agents chasing and taking him down in front of a hairdresser's on Hull Avenue.

ICE detains Concepcion in the Bronx

In one of the videos an agent is observed approaching with the gun drawn while Concepcion remains in the area. According to the young man's story, several agents ordered him to stop, they threw him on the ground and eliminated him They were posed during the operation. Another recording shows the agents lifting the handcuffed young man while he was bleeding from the head.

Witnesses to the operation claimed that the young man repeated that he was a US citizen while being restrained by the agents.

ICE admitted the confusion

Concepcion told NBC New York that during the journey the agents asked for his ID and his mobile phone. As he explained, that's when they realized that they had confused his identity.

“He told me that he was sorry, that I had been confused with another person and that it wouldn't happen again, and that he didn't want me to think that they had done it,” said Concepcion.

“And I told him that I was going to report them,” the young man stated.

The affected young man said that the agents later left him in a park that he didn't know, still bloody and beaten. Later,he managed to reunite with his mother, who took him to a hospital to receive medical care.

According to he told NBC New York, he suffered a concussion and needed stitches in his head after the encounter with federal agents.

Jeury Concepcion's family demands investigation

Jeury Concepcion's family requested an investigation into what happened and maintained that it was a confusion of identity during the ICE operation in New York.

The case occurs in the middle of the discussions about immigration actions in the city. The so-called “border czar”, Tom Homan, previously warned about a possible increase in immigration agents ation in New York, while at the state level an initiative promoted by Governor Kathy Hochul to restrict local collaboration with federal immigration operatives.

However, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin stated Thursday that there is currently no intention to deploy a wave of federal agents to the state.