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This is Carlitos Ricardo Parias, the man who filmed the viral video showing worms in the drinking water at Adelanto ICE Processing Center.

>Somewhere in a sweltering desert, cockroaches scurry around the cell of Carlitos Ricardo Parias. He holds up a plastic bottle, gazing at the worm-like creatures swimming in his drinking water. His other arm is turning purple from a gunshot wound for which he says he hasn’t received proper medical care.

>Parias was driving along a quiet block near downtown LA. Multiple unmarked vehicles pulled up around him, carrying masked men who turned out to be federal agents. Immediately and without warning, they smashed his window, as bodycam footage later showed. Panicked, Parias stepped on the accelerator — a meaningless move in a small car physically pinned by multiple large SUVs. Tires spun, the vehicles didn’t budge, and Parias quickly took his foot off the gas.

>One agent struggled to open the passenger door. He fumbled with his gun, as his own bodycam showed, juggling it back and forth between his hands before shooting Parias in the elbow. A U.S. marshal was also hit and was expected to recover.

>As federal immigration agents’ violence once again sent Parias to the hospital, the agents scurried into the security office of a nearby strip mall to check for surveillance footage. They downloaded it onto a thumb drive and deleted it from the mall’s system.

>Prosecutors charged Parias with assault on a federal officer**,** offering a version of events that omitted critical context.

>"I think Adams County and the state of Colorado may be prepared to go to court to force them to comply," Coffman said.

>Aurora City Attorney Peter Schulte said during the same study session that basic questions about conditions inside the facility remain unanswered.

>"We don't really know what is going on in the GEO facility," Schulte said.

>The person said that all 88 people he is detained with received testing on Saturday, with 12 positive cases coming back, up from a single case three days earlier. Instead of separating those infected, he said, guards kept them together with those who were not sick, and the entire group was told they must stay in quarantine for at least a week.

>To make matters worse, the detainee said, the air conditioning in the pod broke down on Sunday, and staff distributed electric fans. On Monday afternoon, Aurora was under a heat advisory with the outside air temperature at 96F (36C).

>The reported infections are the latest in a series of health concerns at the Colorado immigration jail. There was another apparent TB outbreak in April last year, according to a lawsuit filed by a number of Democratic politicians seeking greater transparency from the Trump administration over deaths and disease in federal detention facilities.

>After learning of a positive test for active tuberculosis from a detainee at the facility in early June, the Adams County Health Department launched an investigation, as is required under state law. However, Kelly Weidenbach, the executive director of the department, said her investigators were met with a lack of cooperation from federal immigration authorities and representatives of the GEO Group, which operates the facility, known as the Aurora ICE Processing Center, or AIPC

>In a statement issued Tuesday, Weidenbach confirmed that investigators are still being denied access to the infected patient, medical records, information on detainee movement and other details needed to determine who may have been exposed to the disease and how far it may have spread. This lack of cooperation comes despite the Adams County Health Department issuing a public health order on June 25 requiring compliance, the department said.