The family is expressed after disabled teenagers are detained by wrong by federal agents

The mother of a 15 -year -old California boy who was briefly owned by federal agents under the threat of a weapon in a case of erroneous identity recalled the terrifying interaction in an interview on Wednesday.

Andreina Mejia said she was parked at the sidewalk outside Arleta high school on Monday to register her daughter. At that time, her son, Baldemar Gutierrez, who had special needs, was with her.

Suddenly, a truck stopped behind Mejia’s car and a group of masked men poured out of the truck to surround him and her son, she recalls.

“Someone approached me and another person approached [Baldermar]Pointing a gun and a taser, “she said.” They withdrew him and they handcuffed it right away. “”

The superintendent of the Unified School District of Los Angeles, Alberto Carvalho, described the incident at a press conference on Tuesday, adding that the surveillance video captured armed agents carrying “police” and “border patrol” badges that would put the teenager in detention.

“This young man was placed in handcuffs, presumably based on an erroneous identity. He was not an adult. He was a 15 -year -old boy with significant disabilities,” said Carvalho.

California, led by Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, has become a target in the difficult repression of immigration by the administration of President Donald Trump. Earlier this month, a court of appeal kept the decision of a Los Angeles federal judge according to which immigration agents prohibit the use of the language or the spoken work of a person, like Day Worker, as the only pretext to hold them.

The administration is also involved in a legal struggle with the State as to whether it had violated the federal law when it mobilized the troops in Los Angeles this summer. The administration said that the deployment of national guard and navy troops was supposed to support immigration officials.

Carvalho said the agents involved in the Monday incident left bullets on the scene. The district police contacted the agencies that were there to ask them to come back and recover the ammunition, said Carvalho, but they were told that they could keep the rounds and use them for target practice.

“It doesn’t suit us,” said Carvalho. “Come get what you left.”

In an article on X, the Ministry of Internal Security said that agents of the border patrol did not aim for high school. The agents were looking for a national Salvadoran with previous criminal convictions suspected of links with the MS-13 gang, said DHS.

The ministry did not respond to an email from NBC News on Tuesday evening to ask why the teenager was detained and ask for more details on the incident.

Mejia said her son had been shaken since the meeting.

“He breaks down and he tells me that he feels harassed. He tells me that he does not feel safe,” said the mother.

The adolescent, who has a hearing condition and speech delays, said the agents showed him a photo, asking him for a person they were looking for.

“They handle me and kept telling me who this person was, and I said to myself:” I don’t know who is that person, “recalls Baldermar.

Mejia also said that the agents had shown her the photo, and replied that the illustrated person was not her son. Baldermar continued to repeat his name and told men that he was an American citizen, the mother said.

When the agents finally made their mistake, they withdrew his son from the handcuffs and involved that it was a valid experience for him, said Mejia.

“”[One agent] It was like: “Oh, we confused it with someone else, but look at the right side: you are going to have an exciting story to tell your friends when you return to school,” recalls Mejia. “What is exciting at the idea of pointing to you firearms?”

Mejia added that the agents could have asked for an identification before placing his handcuffed son.

Carvalho described the “unacceptable” incident and said that district schools will have safety plans in place, including the increase in patrols by school police so that they can alert schools from any potential immigration operation.

“This example says everything we need to know why these actions should not take place in schools. Balls on the ground – What else do we need? Beyond the trauma, what else do we need? ” Said Carvalho.

Arleta is a district of the San Fernando Valley region, about 22 miles northwest of the city center of Los Angeles.