Rafie Shouhed was at Valley Car Wash in Van Nuys, the business he has owned for almost 40 years, when federal immigration officers barrelled onto the property. Seeing masked men with guns, Shouhed quickly got up from his office, but ran into an agent in the hallway. The agent pushed him down, surveillance video shows.

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Shouhed, who is 79 years old, went outside to see agents, who he says did not provide warrants, raiding his business. He asked them what he could do to help them, offering to get the papers many of his workers keep with them, when he was “slammed” into the ground by agents, who sat on his back, one with a knee on Shouhed’s neck, and pinned his arms behind his back, his lawyer said.

Shouhed told his story of what happened that day, Sept. 9, at a news confer

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