ICE agents tased and kicked a restrained Danbury, Connecticut man during an arrest, then moved him before family could reach him

ICE agents arrested a construction worker in Danbury, Connecticut on the morning of August 27, 2026, as he left for work, surrounding the car he was riding in and pulling him out onto a driveway. Video shared by Danbury Unites for Immigrants (DUFI) shows him face down on the ground, surrounded by three to five agents, with an agent kicking him and then shocking him with a Taser twice while he was restrained. At 6:45 a.m., an ICE agent called Danbury 911: "We're ICE, we had to tase a guy that was resisting us, and he's kind of convulsing a little bit," the agent said, adding that the man complained of hypertension and appeared to be having a panic attack.

An ambulance took the man to Danbury Hospital. When his nephew arrived with an attorney and organizers to see him, hospital staff and security told them there was no record of him as a patient and asked them to leave; ICE agents were separately seen stationed outside his hospital room, with one telling the man's father he could not enter because his relative was "under custody." Danbury Mayor Roberto Alves made calls on the family's behalf after learning access was being denied, but by the time he could act, ICE had already transported the man to Hartford. His whereabouts and condition remained unconfirmed to his family as of several days later.

The arrest occurred during a week-long ICE enforcement operation in Danbury that advocates tracking arrests said had detained nearly 60 people by that Thursday, including at school bus stops and outside a daycare. DUFI volunteers reported ICE agents pushing bystanders, tackling community members, and using pepper spray elsewhere in the city during the same operation.