‘Outrageous!’ MSNBC host stunned by ICE agent’s response after teen mistakenly arrested

MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart was stunned Thursday following an incident in California this week where a 15-year-old student with disabilities was mistakenly detained at gunpoint by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.

On Monday, the Los Angeles Unified School District held a news conference announcing the expansion of student "safe zones" to further protect its student body from immigration raids, during which Superintendent Alberto Cervalho revealed that earlier that same day, ICE agents had detained a teen student at gunpoint and placed them in handcuffs in a case “mistaken identity.”

“That's outrageous!” Capehart said. “That's a child, and the child was traumatized. As (their) mother said, he is worried, (worried of) the ripple effects of children not going back to school, their classmates seeing that they are not there.”

The student was ultimately released, but not before agents reportedly told the teen that they would have an “exciting story” to share with their friends, according to the student’s mother, speaking with MSNBC.

“He was like 'oh, we confused you with somebody else, but look at the bright side, you're going to have an exciting story to tell your friends when you go back to school,'” the student’s mother said, whose identity was kept anonymous. “What's exciting about getting guns pointed at you?”

The incident, Cervalho said, would leave “lingering” trauma on the student, as well as their peers. The encounter also posed a safety risk to students, as Cervalho said the agents left “bullets on the ground” at the school after they had departed.

“There's a key point here that is also pointed out in the story: if they don't know who this 15 year old is, why didn't they ask him for identification?” Capehart said. “At a minimum, they should have done that. Instead, they handcuffed a 15-year-old boy with disabilities, traumatized him, and certainly probably traumatized young kids who might have been in the area to see this.”

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