A 79-year-old car wash owner who says he was injured when agents body slammed and subjected him to other violent treatment during a Sept. 9 immigration raid at his business in Van Nuys has filed a $50 million claim against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and related federal agencies.

The car wash owner, Rafie Ollah Shoued, was at the business at 7530 Van Nuys Boulevard when masked agents conducted a late-morning raid.

According to Shouhed, who provided video and photographs to back up his claims, an agent shoved him to the ground in a hallway as he tried to find out what was going on. He further claims that when he went outside to speak with the agents and show them papers proving the workers had authorization, he was cursed, pushed and then “violently body slammed … onto the pa

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