Family of man wounded in ICE shooting insists he's not a gang member and didn't run over officers

Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez's said they haven't been able to see him or communicate with him.

The family of the man ICE officers shot Tuesday in Northern California rebutted the agency's narrative about Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, denying Wednesday that he is a gang member from El Salvador.

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"He was never in a gang," Patrick Kolasinski, a lawyer who is representing Mendoza Hernandez and his family, told reporters on a virtual media call.

Neither Kolasinski nor Mendoza Hernandez’s fiancée, Cindy, have been able to speak to him or see him since he was wounded and taken to a hospital for treatment, they said at the news conference.