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The video from Oct. 15 shows federal agents handcuffing three people at the Lane County Jail, though only one of the agents is wearing a vest that identifies him as police. Lane County released the video under the state’s open records law.
Video recorded Oct. 15 at the Lane County Jail shows a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer getting help to enter the locked public lobby of the jail, and then detaining a man who nearly crashed into an onlooker at the lobby door while trying to exit the building.
The Lane County Sheriff’s Office released the video Wednesday, Nov. 12, to Lookout Eugene-Springfield in response to a public records request.
Lookout previously reported on the ICE arrest at the jail, based on the release of a sheriff’s office memo about what it called the “Lobby Incident.”
The memo describes two people taken into custody. But the video shows three people handcuffed and led away from the jail, including two who were handcuffed in the jail courtyard.
Video from outside the jail lobby door shows an agent wearing a vest first tries to enter at 5 p.m., but he cannot because the doors are locked.
A person in plain clothes waits for someone to exit, then catches the door and enters. The person in plain clothes later opens the door to allow the agent wearing the vest to enter the lobby.
The sheriff’s office “Lobby Incident” memo described the person in plain clothes as working together with the man in the vest to take a person into custody. The “Lobby Incident” memo described the people taken into ICE custody as having been recently released from the jail.
Other members of the public were in the jail lobby. The video shows a woman near the door stepping back to avoid a man crashing into the door, trying to leave. Seconds later, this man is led out in handcuffs by an ICE agent.
Earlier, at about 4:57 p.m., video of the jail’s courtyard shows ICE agents handcuffing two people and leading them away.
Oregon’s sanctuary law, which generally prohibits the use of local and state resources to enforce immigration violations, is one of the most stringent in the nation.
It specifically prohibits state and local law enforcement agencies from sharing certain personal details with ICE unless shared “under the same terms and conditions as the information is available to the general public.”
On Oct. 26, ICE released a statement, which in part read: “On October 15, ICE arrested four criminal illegal aliens from Colombia who have collectively committed approximately TWENTY home invasions and burglaries over the past several months.”
The statement referenced burglaries targeting Asian-American households in Eugene and across the state.
Eugene police arrested seven men on suspicion of burglary after serving a search warrant on Oct. 9, with jail records showing them booked into custody on Oct. 10.
Six of the suspects paid $10,000 to secure their release on the state charges, but federal prosecutors last week announced a criminal complaint filed against the suspects arrested by Eugene police. Two of the suspects have appeared in federal court.
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