‘Turn off your video’: ICE agents tell NC men to quit recording traffic stop

Ryan Oehrli
Wed, January 7, 2026 at 3:30 PM EST
2 min read

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‘Turn off your video’: ICE agents tell NC men to quit recording traffic stop
ICE agents stopped two people in Salisbury this week.
(Miami)

Cellphone video circulating online shows Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents telling two men in Salisbury to stop recording them at a traffic stop on Monday, as well as the fracas that followed. ... Charlotte ICE spokesperson Lindsay Williams confirmed it was ICE agents who were seen in the video.

“Do me a favor and turn off your video. You’re being detained right now, so you’re not free to record,” one agent told the men, whom advocacy group Siembra NC identified as Edwin Godinez and Yair Alexander Napoles.

When Godinez and Napoles responded that they were not being detained, the agent reached through the car’s driver-side window and tried to grab Napoles’ cellphone, then grabbed him by his hoodie and yanked him. Then, agents opened the car door and tussled with him inside the vehicle.

“Get off the phone!” the agent who told them to stop recording said before he started yelling more commands.

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