A Hispanic nonprofit civil rights organization plans to file a $1 million lawsuit on behalf of a U.S. citizen who it asserts was assaulted and detained as part of a recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid in Los Angeles.

Job Garcia, 37, of Los Angeles says he was arrested and held for more than 24 hours after being tackled and thrown to the ground on June 19 while recording Customs and Border Protection and ICE agents during a raid in a Home Depot parking lot.

Garcia, a photographer and doctoral candidate at Claremont Graduate University, says he was at the store doing delivery work when the ICE raid began.

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