Frontline DIGNITY was featured in the following Pittsburgh Tribune Review Article: ICE involved as feds violently detain Latino man in Mt. Washington
Neighbors living on Norton Street in Pittsburgh’s Mount Washington neighborhood woke Wednesday morning to sounds of screaming.
Witnesses told TribLive they watched federal agents hit, tackle, pepper spray and arrest a Latino man between 8 and 8:30 a.m.
“This is a new level of violence than we’ve seen in the city,” said Jaime Martinez, executive director of Frontline DIGNITY, a nonprofit that advocates for immigrants.
Martinez said he spoke with witnesses who saw the incident unfold.
According to accounts given to Martinez and to TribLive, two unmarked vehicles sandwiched a white Tacoma pickup on the 400 block of Norton Street.
They said agents broke the truck’s driver’s side window, pulled a man from the car and got into a physical altercation with him.
At least some of the agents on the scene were from U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement, according to Pittsburgh police.
Neighbors who saw the incident — including some who recorded it — said the agents punched the man and shoved him to the ground.