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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Aug 25, 2022

Video obtained by Tennessee Lookout confirms that a U.S. Department of Homeland Security agent stepped on the neck of a worker who was face down on the floor with another agent on his back during a raid of a Grainger County slaughterhouse in April 2018. Additional videos and depositions obtained also show that federal agents seized, searched, cursed, handcuffed and detained Latino workers without any proof of wrongdoing, while allowing white workers to go free without further investigation. The news source said it gained access to the video after U.S. Magistrate Judge Christopher Seger unsealed the footage. The incident in question occurred at the Southeastern Provision slaughterhouse in Bean Station. The workers at the plant are suing the government for violation of their rights.