ICE takedown in view of young children at school leaves 2 detained and backlash roiling in Baltimore | CNN

The elementary students just getting to school didn’t need an adult to explain what was going on. The ICE vests and man restrained on the ground told them all they needed to know. “Oh, they’re gonna arrest us. They’re gonna take us,” the young children said Thursday morning as Jude Castellanos drove the minivan ferrying them to classes in Baltimore. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had been pursuing an undocumented immigrant who, with his family, drove into the parking lot of Commodore John Rodgers Elementary/Middle school around 8 a.m., authorities and witnesses said. The man, identified as Jesus Acevedo-Sanchez, “refused lawful commands, violently resisted arrest, and used his vehicle to evade law enforcement, dragging an ICE officer in the process,” Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Lauren Bis later told CNN. Agents pulled the man from the car as educators took two kids from the back seat, authorities and witnesses said. Soon, the man was face down on the ground with two agents over him, a video Castellanos shared with CNN shows, while a woman peered out a vehicle’s broken window before she was led away, hands apparently restrained behind her