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A distressing nighttime interdiction outside Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) highlights the aggressive deployment of plainclothes federal agents operating as a snatch squad in public transit hubs. A bystander, acting as an ad-hoc legal observer, recorded a tense scene in which four unidentified men surrounded a lone woman and effectively kidnapped her, forcing her into an unmarked transport vehicle.

The footage captures a chaotic abduction where the victim is visibly terrified, repeatedly asking for help and pleading for someone to call 911. She is physically corralled by four men wearing casual outerwear and backpacks, completely lacking any visible agency insignia or badges. When the citizen recording the encounter directly asks if the men are ICE, one of the agents confirms their affiliation. Pressed for their legal justification for the seizure, a masked agent briefly cites a vague "immigration violation".

Crucially, before the agents can close the van doors to finalize the kidnapping, the observer repeatedly asks the victim for her name to ensure she does not disappear into the detention system undocumented. Through the open door, she clearly shouts her name twice: Jing Zhao.

While the agents successfully executed the forced disappearance, the observer was able to capture vital accountability data. The camera operator attempts to identify the masked agent, who pulls his black face mask up further and states, "I don't have to identify myself to you". However, as the unmarked white Ford transit van pulls away, the observer tracks the vehicle's departure and documents U.S. Government Department of Homeland Security (DHS) license plates reading 381664

Full Article: https://www.eyesonice.net/p/wilber-garces-perez-faces-criminal

On Tuesday, September 29, new legal and medical developments emerged in the case of Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, the 28-year-old Venezuelan DoorDash driver an ICE officer shot in the back on September 20 in North Austin. According to his legal advocate, a scheduled 7:00 AM Zoom call with Wilber was abruptly canceled when the detention center informed the legal team that he was no longer at their facility.

After scrambling to locate him, the legal team discovered that Wilber had been transferred from the South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall to a federal courthouse in Austin. As reported by The Texas Tribune, federal prosecutors filed a criminal complaint charging him with assaulting, resisting, interfering with, and impeding a federal officer under 18 U.S.C. § 111. Conviction carries up to 20 years. His attorney confirmed the complaint tracks the government’s post-shooting narrative: evading, interfering, assaulting, and resisting.

This is the state’s standard move after an ICE shooting. The man with a bullet still in his body is the one being prosecuted. The officer who fired is not.

Wilber’s physical and emotional condition remains a severe concern. During a brief meeting at the Austin courthouse, his attorney described him as emotionally distraught and in significant pain. He appeared dizzy, lightheaded, and was continually wincing, struggling to manage tasks as simple as putting on translation headphones or signing paperwork. Nine days after the shooting, Wilber remains largely immobile with the bullet still lodged in his body. Coverage by CBS News and contemporaneous reporting confirms he was shot in the back following a traffic stop while making a food delivery, then pulled from a hospital and dumped into Pearsall with the projectile still inside him.