Overview

• Rafie Ollah Shouhed filed a civil claim seeking $50 million after a Sept. 9 ICE operation at his Van Nuys car wash, moving the case into the pre-suit process.
• Surveillance video and witness accounts describe agents shoving him inside the business and taking him down outside as he tried to address the raid.
• He was hospitalized after release with multiple broken ribs, a dislocated elbow, contusions and symptoms consistent with head trauma, according to his attorney.
• Shouhed alleges he was held nearly 12 hours at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles without medical care and was released without charges.
• The claim cites assault and battery, California’s Bane Act, deliberate indifference to medical needs and emotional distress, and alleges agency policies permit excessive force, while DHS publicly rejects the allegations.