FITCHBURG, Mass. —

The Fitchburg Police Department says its assistance was requested twice by ICE agents after an arrest in the city grew hostile Thursday morning.

According to police, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents conducted a traffic stop on Kimball Street just after 7 a.m. Thursday. The traffic stop grew into an "attempted apprehension," police said, which is when ICE requested additional police officers to help control the scene.

Fitchburg police left after they deemed the scene safe, before returning less than an hour later after ICE requested their assistance again.

Video recorded by a witness and sent to NewsCenter 5 shows police arriving at the scene, appearing to converse with someone sitting in the passenger seat of a white SUV.

One witness who recorded the scene

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