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Sam Levin in Los Angeles

California man shot by ICE says officials falsely labeled him a gang member

A man and a woman in front of several microphones.
Patrick Kolasinski, attorney for Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, speaks at a news conference on 8 April. Photograph: Terry Chea/AP

A California man shot by US immigration agents said officials have falsely accused him of being a gang member and that officers fired on him without justification during a traffic stop.

Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, 36, was pulled over and shot by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers on Tuesday in Patterson, a rural agricultural town in California’s central valley. Patrick Kolasinski, Hernandez’s attorney, visited him in the hospital on Thursday morning and summarized his client’s comments.

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