A Van Nuys car wash owner and U.S. citizen said he plans to file a civil rights lawsuit against the federal government after agents threw him to the ground twice during an immigration raid and sent him to the detention center.

Surveillance video during the operation from last Tuesday showed Rafie Shouhed being knocked to the ground at his own business, Valley Car Wash.

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“Three (agents) attacked me,” Shouhed recalled. “They threw me on the floor in the hallway, and then they ran over me.”

Shouhed said when he went outside to see what the agents needed, agents roughed him up again and handcuffed him.

“They sat on me, on my elbow,” he said, adding he was injured during the process.

Shouhed and five others at his

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