Incident details
- Date of incident
- June 13, 2025
- Location
- Los Angeles, California
- Assailant
- Law enforcement
- Was the journalist targeted?
- Yes
Assault
- Arrest status
- Detained and released without being processed
- Arresting authority
- Department of Homeland Security
- Unnecessary use of force?
- Yes
Arrest/Criminal Charge
Journalist Carlitos Ricardo Parias, at left, receives an award from a staff member for Los Angeles Councilmember Curren Price in August 2025. Two months earlier, on June 13, Parias was reporting when a federal agent wrenched him from a car in LA.
Independent journalist Carlitos Ricardo Parias was dragged from a vehicle by federal agents, hurting his knee, while he was documenting an immigration raid in Los Angeles, California, on June 13, 2025.
Parias, who reports across the city on social media under the name Richard Noticias LA, has amassed over 100,000 followers on social video platform TikTok by covering neighborhood crime and police activity — and more recently, immigration enforcement.
That day, Parias was among a group of people following an Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicle they believed was searching a South LA neighborhood for people to detain, said his attorney, Carlos Jurado.
Agents approached the vehicle Parias was in with assault rifles drawn, the man who was driving the truck told the LA Times. He said they complied with agents’ commands but acknowledged that Parias was reluctant to exit.
ICE agents then yanked Parias from the truck and strained his knee, Jurado told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker in an email.
“The agents then held him there for a substantial period of time without providing him medical assistance,” Jurado added.
In one video, Parias is seen wearing a press vest, clutching his injured leg with handcuffs on and groaning in pain. Community members later arrived at the scene and took Parias to a hospital. While Parias was leaving, an agent briefly stopped him before letting him go, a video of the encounter showed. He was still wearing handcuffs.
Jurado told the Tracker that the June 2025 encounter set off a chain of events that culminated in Parias being detained and shot in the arm by federal agents in October. Parias was targeted in retaliation for his journalistic work and reporting on ICE activity, according to Jurado.
As of August 2026, he remains in custody at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in San Bernardino County and faces deportation to his native Mexico.
The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker catalogs press freedom violations in the United States. Email tips to [email protected].
