Baldemar Gutierrez, a 15-year-old U.S. citizen with significant hearing loss and speech delays, was pulled from a car and handcuffed at gunpoint by masked federal agents outside Arleta High School in Los Angeles while his mother, Andreina Mejia, was nearby enrolling his sister. Agents showed a photo of a Salvadoran national suspected of gang ties and mistook Baldemar for him, releasing him only after he repeatedly stated his name and citizenship; the encounter lasted about seven minutes before agents realized their error. His mother said an agent told him the mistake would make an 'exciting story to tell' his friends, and she said her son has since felt harassed and unsafe. School officials said agents wearing 'police' and 'Border Patrol' insignia left bullets at the scene, prompting increased school police patrols. The family's attorneys later filed a $1 million claim against DHS, CBP, Border Patrol and ICE alleging racial profiling, false arrest, false imprisonment, and assault and battery; DHS denied racial profiling, calling it a case of mistaken identity.