“Are you going to let him die?” Agents piled up on protesters, twitching and breathing hard.

On a crowded downtown street, four masked, plainclothes agent pushed Luis Hipolito towards the sidewalk, piled on top of him, leaning against the side of the road. One man wrapped his arms around the 23-year-old’s neck. Hipolito seemed to have a hard time breathing his stomach as the agent tried to cuff him for more than two minutes.

“Are you going to let him die?” A bystander screamed as the other agents pushed back to the crowd.

After a moment, they pulled him up. Hipolito’s legs were trembling. His head swayed back and his body swayed violently. The sudden twitch looks like the beginning of a seizure.

Right now, the moment was filmed on multiple videos Tuesday morning and shared on social media, angering immigrant advocates, family members and residents of eyewitnesses. It raises questions about the risks of the Trump administration’s crackdown in Los Angeles, where agents conduct immigration sweeps on busy streets without clear goals.

“This shows the inheritance danger of general arrests,” said Deborah Fleischaker, former acting chief of staff for U.S. immigration and customs enforcement, who reviewed some of the videos. “They should be avoided as much as possible. You can’t control everything. Violence, someone’s injury or medical incidents are at a high risk. This is for officials and targets.”

But she said the uproar seemed to be part of the government’s plan. “The level of chaos and fear seems to be a characteristic here, not a mistake.”

U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli in Los Angeles accused U.S. citizen Hipolito of assaulting a federal official, allegedly assaulting him before being beaten. DHS officials have repeatedly said they will arrest anyone who interferes in their business.

The craze began when unidentified agents began to detain street vendors near street vendors, and street vendors near downtown and 9th Street began. Hipolito and other bystanders rushed to shoot the action and yelled.

The video appears to show an agent taking out a red bottle and spraying it within a few inches of his eyes, then brushing the Hipolito back. Video of the Times comments did not show whether Hipolito’s hands were connected, but the officer tried to avoid the blow and lost the baseball cap. Hipolito’s family said it was pepper spray and Hipolito did not deliberately touch the agent because he was blinded.

At a hearing Thursday, Hipolito walked into the courtroom, wearing his arrested clothes. A federal judge ordered him to be released on a $10,000 margin.

Andrea Guadalupe Velez, another 32-year-old woman, is also a U.S. citizen, and is also accused of the attack on the same seat. A judge ordered her to be released on a $5,000 deposit as her mother and sister burst into tears in court.

The Department of Homeland Security said their agents had a violent rise in attacks on them and that people involved in the operation put them at risk.

“Secretary Nome is clear: If you reach out to law enforcement, you will be prosecuted to the maximum extent of the law,” said DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. “The actions of these U.S. citizens prevent ICE law enforcement from arresting targeted illegal foreigners.”

Both defendants were children of immigrants, and when a convoy of agents pulled past on 9th Street, they were both downtown. Most people wear masks, and obviously many agents are different. U.S. immigration and customs law enforcement officers are seeking to “question from both people whether they exist legally”, according to a criminal lawsuit filed by U.S. prosecutors.

Court documents did not name those people, but agents stopped at a stall and a family sold Tamarus, coffee, Champurrado and Pandes Nearby California.

As the action unfolds, Velez is a Cal Poly Pomona graduate who has just been put down by her mother and 17-year-old sister Estrella Rosas.

According to the criminal lawsuit, Velez “suddenly” embarked on the agent’s path, “apparently to stop him from arresting the male subject he was chasing.” Velez, now 4-foot-11, was allegedly standing on the agent’s path, with her arms stretched out. It said the agent was unable to stop in time and was hit on his head and chest.

Velez’s mother, Margarita Flores, looked through the rearview mirror. She said she saw a man running towards her daughter, and her daughter fell to the ground. Flores said the people did not have ID cards or license plates on their license plates.

She was worried that she had been kidnapped and told Rosas to call the police.

“I called 911 and said they were kidnapping my sister because we didn’t know who these people were,” Rosas said.

Velez ran to deployed LAPD officials.

The crowd is gathering. The trumpet was hoarse. People shouted obscene. They took a cell phone and pointed at the agents, one of them lifted Velez up and took her to the SUV. Her knees were stuffed against her chest.

“They didn’t identify with themselves,” Weilles said Thursday after his release. “I just went to work and everything happened so quickly.”

Her attorney Gregory Russell said that in the chaos, all she saw was an official who directly accused her, thinking: “He thought I was illegal because of the color of my skin.”

He said she instinctively lifted her work bag as he pushed herself to the ground to protect herself from large men.

“I’m scared, I don’t know what will happen or where I’m going,” she said.

Hipolito is part of a party crowd yelling at agents.

As the agent tried to leave, he stood near one of the cars and argued with the agent wearing a “police” vest.

A broker identified as “CC” ordered Hipolito and two others to leave the scene, but they refused to move, so he sprayed it. Then, “Hipolito hit CC in the face.”

A shaky video shot from inside a nearby car shows Hipolito arguing face to face with masked agents wearing police vests.

The man tried to shake him away, signaling Hipolito to leave, but he persisted and lifted his phone up to the masked agent. The agent then turned for the moment and leaned towards him, seemingly caught off guard by Hipolito’s phone, so close to his face. A separate close-up video shows him spraying directly from the bottle on Hipolito’s face. It looks like the Hipolito slides or swings backwards on the brush, but it happens in the camera’s shooting. All that is captured is the hat wearing a hat reappears in the frame.

“They seem to be someone who did something wrong, he is a law that violates the law, and instead, many of these agents violated my cousin’s rights.”

She said his cousin told her agent that he was blinded.

“You know when someone is blind and out of sight, they move their hands in front of them to achieve stability.

There is no further mention of what happened next in the court documents, but the video taken by the bystander shows that within the next few seconds, the agent grabbed Hipolito and held him as he struggled to breathe.

One agent grabbed each of his arms, another agent wrapped his arms around his neck, and the last agent in an orange shirt tried to hold his legs, once slammed them.

After about 30 seconds, the agent whose arm was wrapped around his neck pulled away. The man in orange let go of Hipolito’s legs, placed himself on the man’s head, and pointed a Taser on his shoulder. He didn’t seem to fire, but the other agents continued to push down as they tried to handcuff their arms. Milling around other agents. In Fracas, Hipolito’s shoes fly away.

About a minute later, with the sirens screaming, people yelling, and the orange-wearing agent stood up and tried to push the crowd back. He pointed the Taser at a recording of a woman, and when she didn’t back down, he swiped her phone, but missed it.

After about two and a half minutes, they finally let him stand by and watch.

Hipolito breathes fast and deep. He was bent over. Agents wearing baseball caps and FBI filmed his heart, seemingly talking to him and trying to calm him down. He wiped Hipolito’s eyes with his shirt and held his back. Hipolito held his breath. Then the man pulled him from under his shoulders.

Hipolito stands, agents on both sides. He was shaking, then his head swayed back and his legs began to shake violently.

The agent sat on the ground and splashed water on his face. Eventually, he was picked up and placed in the car.

Ruben Lopez, a use expert and retired LAPD SWAT lieutenant, said federal agents working on the streets of Los Angeles have raised tensions, and some normal on-site operations at some local agencies have been mistaken for immigration enforcement.

“The anger of the bystanders is a direct result of what people think is a proactive strategy when people come out to grab someone with no facial cover for any identified person and unmarked vehicles,” he said.

“Relationships with the community, law enforcement and community are a delicate balance,” he said. “A single incident can erode years of public trust and confidence in law enforcement.”

Lopez said he was particularly concerned that the incident could lead to “blue blue,” a term that refers to an institution that unknowingly harms another institution.

Building manager Glen Sitwell watched all of these games from his corner office, saying he was shocked by the agent’s aggressive posture.

“If this sh – every day, then the day people start to be killed,” he said.