A man is hospitalized in suburban Melrose Park after he was detained by federal immigration agents Sunday morning, his family says.

Ricardo Rodriguez, 53, was riding his bike to get groceries when federal agents stopped him, according to Rodriguez’s niece Stephanie Suaine. Videos circulating on social media show an agent placing Rodriguez in a chokehold and striking his head at least once before two more agents approach and appear to put Rodriguez in handcuffs.

“My uncle got up and they punched him ... they’re still choking him,” Stephanie Suaine said as she watched the video. “It makes me mad because he’s old already, they shouldn’t be treating old people like that.”

Rodriguez, who immigrated to California from Mexico in the 1980s as a teenager and later moved to Melrose Park, began co

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