Ricardo Aguayo Rodriguez was bicycling home from a grocery store in Melrose Park, where he has lived for decades, when U.S. Border Patrol agents approached him.

Aguayo, 54, ditched the bike and ran. When the feds caught up with him, he “violently” resisted, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which says the agents used pepper spray and “delivered strikes.”

One agent struggled to handcuff Aguayo after bringing him to the pavement under the window of an apartment whose occupant recorded video of the agent’s arm locked around Aguayo’s neck — a type of restraint many law enforcement agencies have banned because it can be deadly.

Aguayo pleaded in Spanish, gasping and struggling.

After being hospitalized with serious injuries, Aguayo is now locked up in a detention facili

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