ICE agents tackled a New York teenager, split his head open and left him bleeding at a park. Then they admitted they had the wrong person

A 19-year-old from the Bronx was tackled, handcuffed, and left bleeding by ICE agents who later admitted they had the wrong person. The incident was caught on cellphone video obtained by News 4. The teenager, Jeury Concepcion, was standing in front of a barber shop on Hull Avenue when multiple ICE agents approached him and ordered him to stop.

Agents brought Concepcion to the ground and handcuffed him. The video shows agents lifting him off the ground with blood dripping from his head. He was then pressed up against a car before being placed inside the vehicle and driven away to a park he was unfamiliar with, where he was left alone and injured.

During the ride, agents asked Concepcion for his ID and cellphone, which is when they realized they had made a mistake, reports NBC New York. They dropped him off at a park he was unfamiliar with. “He told me he’s sorry, that he [was] confusing me with somebody else and that it would never happen again, and that he don’t want me to think they did it,” Concepcion said. “And I told him I’m going to report them.”

The ICE agents who tackled the wrong teenager left him with a concussion and no way to get home

Concepcion suffered a concussion and needed stitches on his head as a result of being tackled to the ground. He was eventually reunited with his mother, who took him to a hospital to be examined. The teenager and his family plan to file a formal complaint against the ICE agents involved in the incident.

This is not the first time ICE has faced legal trouble over how it carries out arrests. In December, a federal judge ruled that ICE agents had been violating a court order over how they conduct arrests in Washington, D.C. The order barred ICE from making warrantless arrests unless agents first determined there was probable cause that the person could flee before a warrant could be obtained. 

New York has also been taking its own steps against federal agents, including barring ICE agents from wearing masks during operations in the state. The ruling came after a lawsuit filed by advocacy groups CASA and the ACLU, which argued that warrantless arrests continued even after a preliminary injunction was granted. 

The groups documented 33 cases of warrantless arrests, which they said were in direct violation of the court order. These cases raised serious concerns about how ICE agents identify and approach individuals before making an arrest. Around the same time as the Bronx incident, Border Czar Tom Homan had threatened to flood New York City with immigration agents. 

However, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said on Thursday morning that he was not looking to send a surge of agents to the state right now, despite those threats. Across the country, reports of ICE agents going door to door in neighborhoods have been spreading widely on social media, adding to growing public concern.

Concepcion also spoke about the broader fear that incidents like this create in immigrant communities. “Someone can be detained and their family will have no idea where they are. They’re not able to let their family know and they just don’t come home from work one day. It’s devastating in just the most basic and critical ways,” he said. 

His words reflect a growing sense of anxiety felt by many immigrant families across the country who fear being caught up in mistaken arrests. Meanwhile, the New York state legislature is considering legislation backed by Governor Kathy Hochul that would limit local cooperation with federal immigration operations. If passed, the law could place tighter restrictions on how federal agents operate within the state.