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IOWA CITY — An Iowa City man was arrested Thursday at the Bread Garden Market in the Iowa City Pedestrian Mall by three plainclothes men who — in a bystander video of the incident — identified themselves only as “federal agents.”

The video , which was sent to The Gazette and has been circulated online, shows the arrest of Jorge Elieser Gonzalez Ochoa, a resident of the Iowa City Catholic Worker House, which partners with the nonprofit Escucha Mi Voz to advocate for immigrant rights in Iowa. Watch on YouTube

Two men in plain clothes are seen in the video tackling Gonzalez Ochoa to the ground and handcuffing him, while bystanders — including the man filming the video — repeatedly ask them to i

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