10/03/2026
BREAKING🚨 ICE PINNED a U.S. citizen's pregnant belly against a truck and chained her for 8 HOURS. Now, she's suing the agents personally.
Cary Lopez was nine months pregnant on June 8, 2025, when ICE agents in Hawthorne pinned her belly against a truck, her lawsuit says. Video shows bystanders begging the agents, whose faces were covered, to let her go. She was held in chains for about eight hours, and the suit says the stress sent her into early labor.
On Tuesday, hours after Newsom signed SB 747, the No Kings Act, she became one of three suing ICE.
Javier Ramirez was at his family's junk car business in Montebello on June 12, 2025, when agents ignored "no trespassing" signs and came in through an open gate, his lawsuit says. "Get him, he's Mexican," one agent said while holding him down, according to the complaint. Video shows them tackling him. His family can be heard on the video telling agents he's a citizen, and Ramirez says he told them five times himself.
An agent pressed a knee into his face before he was put into an unmarked vehicle and held for four days. Ramirez says agents told him it was for "resisting arrest, impeding a federal investigation." He says he never found out why he was really arrested.
Angel Piña's wife called 911 on July 12, 2025, after the couple saw agents "harassing and pushing minors," his suit says. An agent tackled him from behind. After he was already handcuffed, a third agent put his body weight on him. He kept yelling that he was a U.S. citizen and needed medical help. He was eventually taken to the hospital by ambulance.
The new law lets Californians sue any federal agent for money over excessive force, searches without a warrant, and targeting people for their race or national origin. It covers anything back to March 1, 2025. State Sen. Scott Wiener, who wrote it, says Supreme Court rulings had given agents "de facto immunity." Protect Democracy, which co-sponsored the bill, says California is the fifth state this year to pass this kind of law, after New York, Vermont, Connecticut and Massachusetts.
"A badge does not give anyone permission to violate the rights of the people they encounter," said Maria Garcia Baldizzone, the lawyer for all three.
Trump's top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, responded online: "If you want to regulate federal agents, you have to win a federal election. Until then, you have no jurisdiction."
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