ICE agents under scrutiny after man's legs allegedly crushed in Vancouver arrest

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Oregon Public Broadcasting/NPR

Dec. 6, 2025 2:54 p.m. Updated: Dec. 6, 2025 4:33 p.m.


The Vancouver Police Department is investigating after a man appeared to have his legs run over by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement truck while being detained Thursday. In a press release Friday, police said they became aware of the incident through a cellphone video circulated by community members. The video appears to show the man being struck by an ICE agent’s vehicle while being arrested.

According to The Columbian, the man, named Jose Paniagua Calderón, was detained in front of a Mexican restaurant on East 4th Plain Boulevard. Videos on social media show him screaming in pain as a silver-colored SUV drives over his legs. Carmen Paniagua, who created a GoFundMe campaign for Jose Paniagua, wrote that he is her brother-in-law. She said ICE agents denied him medical care and forced him inside their vehicle.

“Since then, our family has been left without clear answers about his condition, location, or whether he received the medical care he desperately needs. We have been searching hospital to hospital and are now fighting to make sure he is safe and treated with dignity,” she said in a written statement.

OPB has reached out multiple times to Alethea Smock, the ICE director of communications whom Vancouver police referred media inquiries to. By Saturday morning, OPB had not received a response. According to KATU, Paniagua’s family said he’s being detained at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma.

Read more: https://www.opb.org/article/2025/12/06/vancouver-ice-alleged-crushing-legs/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. How does ICE have the jurisdiction (legal right) to cross into a foreign

country to make arrests? He's in another country, not the U.S.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. There is a Vancouver, WA

which is across the Colombia River from Portland, OR. on the opposite end of the state from Canada.



As a sidenote, I have been Vancouver, B.C. & Seattle, driving by that Peace Arch and the famous palm tree. I am still bugging out about the flashing B.C. traffic lights.

(ETA - remember that 45 has been endlessly harassing Portland so that is obviously nearby)

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Thank you. I was oblivious to the fact there were two Vancouvers.

[Alice B.]

35. Same!!!

[2naSalit]

3. There's a city...

In the state of Washington also, not Vancouver, BC, CA. It's across the river from Portland, Oregon.

[CareyOn]

4. This happened in Vancouver, Washington

which is located directly across the Columbia river from Portland, Oregon.

[samnsara]

20. i went to high school there

..my dads side of the family all live there. They are all pretty religious..I wonder what they think of this.

my grandmother was murdered there in 1967..by a WHITE GUY...not an illegal.

[k55f5r]

28. My home town.

I grew up in Vanc. It was a good farming and bedroom community where everyone minded their own business.
Then the religious zealots moved in, followed by lots of Californians moved in with their McMansions and drove the cost of living through the roof. Then they tore down whole subdivisions and built apartments with minimal off-street parking.
Traffic is worse than LA (and I lived in SoCal for 20 yrs), and I hate going back to visit friends and relatives.

[LPBBEAR]

8. Vancouver Washington

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver,_Washington

[malaise]

6. Good effin grief

This is attempted murder

[moniss]

7. Nonchalantly slowly drives over the man

and then the goons load him into the van and you can see no urgency about getting medical attention. You can imagine the lies that DHS is going to come up with about this.

[melm00se]

31. His legs were broken

BEFORE being run over. You know how far illegals are willing to go to defraud anyone and everyone.

He flung himself under the truck.

Biden was driving the truck.

Any others?

: :

[moniss]

37. DHS will probably say

he resisted and flung himself under the wheels in an attempt to cause damage to the vehicle.

[KS Toronado]

9. Hope we find out he's a U.S. citizen

and that this incident leads to serious trouble for ICE that they get kicked out of the state entirely.

[barbtries]

15. He does not have to be a citizen to have rights.

He's human FFS.

[KS Toronado]

16. True, but if he is a citizen it makes ICE look more incompetent

and proves they're going after people only because of the color of their skin. Do they even allow people
the time to prove they're U.S. citizens? No, let's drive over them.

[k55f5r]

29. I think the proof that they're going after people of color

Was established by the supreme Court a month or two ago. It's pretty f****** obvious.

[KS Toronado]

30. Yea I know, repeating so repugs reading this site see it.

[KS Toronado]

26. I know that, what makes you think I don't?

Been over 2 hours since my first reply to your comment hinting I'm an uncaring person. Just remember
this .....MSM ignores most of ICE's atrocities but when their atrocities bleed over into people who were
born in this country, MSM starts talking about how they mistreat people. Have a nice day.

[ashredux]

10. I'll bet some serious money that we will find out some of these "ice agents" were pardoned for January 6 by Trump

Many of these guys are not professionals, they have not been trained, they’re just thugs who are getting paid by the head they bring in….

[Henry203]

11. Medal of Honor winners

How soon before they receive their awards?

[bronxiteforever]

12. K&R litigation against ICE employees will cost large sums

Our party in Congress should propose a “billionaire tax” to create a pool of funds to pay the damages that will inevitably fall upon the US taxpayer from illegal ICE conduct. Also the budget will have financial damages from the illegal acts of Dodge.

[Lonestarblue]

13. "Hell is empty and all the devils are here." The Tempest, William Shakespeare

Describes the whole Trump administration and Republican electorate.

[IronLionZion]

14. ICE is cold

many reasons why they don't want anyone to know their faces, badge numbers, identity, etc. Federal agents terrorizing and apparently torturing people on the streets of America as if they don't know how to make a normal arrest.

[Chi67]

17. Prison for life

All ICE agents, since they wear masks and can’t be individually identified in specific incidents, must be put in prison for life. You were an ICE agent, you go to prison. Period.

[samnsara]

18. is this the same incident here in wash state where a DOG

..was unleashed on someone? Senator Patty Murray is PISSSSSED........

[BumRushDaShow]

21. That incident is described in this thread -

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143578528

[samnsara]

19. When this hell is over I hope that NONE of these mfers

..get a job ANYWHERE in America. Employers should be checking all these back grounds and i dont care if you were a secretary behind a desk.....if you worked for ICE we DONT hire your ass!

let them eat cake

[Solly Mack]

22. How long before we hear the "few bad apples" lie?

Sooner or later, the abuses will garner a comment, and the few will be blamed to protect the many who are also guilty, to include the U.S. government.

[anti-repub]

24. ice agent committing aggravated assault/possible aggravated mayhem

You won"t even hear "a few bad apples" from the trump regime. You only get "in your face' comments from this regime in answer to complaints about outrageously cruel actions taken by actors under the trump regime, what the media calls trump "doubling down.'

[Solly Mack]

25. Most likely, yes.

[chouchou]

23. My husband told me weeks ago that...

"Those redneck, hillbilly bastards are going to get someone badly hurt or killed."
"Most of them have little education and reality plus empathy to be logical and faithful to their duties."
"Seems like it's akin to a pack of pissed-off Pit bull hounds.."

He feels sorry that he called it right..

[Martin68]

27. When, where and how will this madness end?

[Ziggysmom]

33. I have those same thoughts constantly.

Hang tough fellow DUer

[undergrounddemsunite]

32. Neo Nazi?

Sounds like Neo Nazi to me!

[Bayard]

34. They say he was walking around normally after this happened,

I want to see before and after video.

[IcyPeas]

36. How many have been injured? The way they are jumped and tackled by multiple goons

is horrific. They handcuff people then pull them up violently by their arms and force them into an unmarked SUV. Shoving and twisting.

Looks like a lot of shoulder and arm injuries AT THE LEAST.

trump has repeatedly said at his klan rallies that it's okay for police or his security guards to rough suspects up.... and don't be too nice ... and he said he would like to see one day of violence that would allow police to do anything they want.....

He gets off on violence.

He's a fucking monster. I want to see him and his family treated the same way.