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Shouhed and his attorney V. James DeSimone denied the accusation at a press conference Thursday.“What can I do for you? Can I help you?” Shouhed recalled saying to the officers.He said he wanted to tell agents he had documents to show his employees were eligible to work. There is no audio on the surveillance footage.“This is the way ICE is operating in our community,” DeSimone said. “They use physical force, they don’t speak to the people in order to ascertain who is there legally in order to do their job. Instead, they immediately resort to force.”After Shouhed was detained, he said he showed an officer at the detention center his ID. He was held for 12 hours and released without charges, the claim says.The agency has six months to settle or deny the claim, after which Shouhed can file a lawsuit in federal court.Several other U.S. citizens have also filed civil rights claims against the government for being wrongly detained during federal immigrant enforcement operations in Southern California. They include Andrea Velez, who was detained June 24 on her way to work in downtown Los Angeles. She was held for two days and faced a charge for obstructing a federal officer that was eventually dropped.Federal immigration officers have also come under scrutiny for their aggressive tactics in raids. While DHS has usually defended its tactics, the agency issued a rare rebuke of one of its officers Friday after he shoved an Ecuadorian woman to the floor at a courthouse in New York.