The illegal immigrant who allegedly rammed an ICE vehicle in Los Angeles Tuesday after previously escaping federal authorities was earlier given an award by the city for his efforts in exposing “illegal raids,” The Daily Wire has learned.

ICE officers fired at the Mexican illegal immigrant, who has since been identified as Carlitos Ricardo Parías, 44, shooting him in the elbow. A U.S. Marshal was shot in the hand by a ricochet bullet.

The U.S. Attorney has since hit Parías with the federal charge of assaulting an officer, which could put him behind bars for up to eight years.

SCOOP: The illegal immigrant, Carlitos Ricardos Parías, who allegedly rammed an ICE vehicle in LA today after previously fleeing arrest was earlier given an award from the city of Los Angeles for his “tireless efforts to safeguard our neighborhoods from illegal raids” in exposing… pic.twitter.com/k6GZtkj0QK

— Jennie Taer (@JennieSTaer) October 22, 2025

Parías is a well-known TikToker documenting ICE operations across LA to his more than 132,000 followers.

He was seen earlier this year in handcuffs being hauled into a vehicle by bystanders while federal authorities were trying arrest him for allegedly interfering with immigration operations, federal law enforcement sources told The Daily Wire.

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The officers engaged in a struggle with the bystanders, who refused to hand Parías over for arrest. They ultimately drove him to a nearby hospital after he wailed that his leg was broken.

@trakasofficial1 Warning ⚠️ “Viewers Discretion Is Advised “ The day that @LAgliZzynews saved @Richard LA @Richard from being kidnapped by ICE agents in LA 🥺🥺🥺 #ice #raids #federalgovernment #losangeles #california ♬ Very Sad – Enchan

He was arrested on Tuesday for attempting to flee a second time. Tuesday’s shooting comes amid a 1,000% increase in assaults on federal immigration agents.“These are the consequences of conduct and rhetoric by sanctuary politicians and activists who urge illegal aliens to resist arrest. Resisting arrest puts the safety of illegal aliens, law enforcement, and the public at risk. Our law enforcement officers are facing a more than 1000% increase in assaults against them including vehicle rammings by illegal aliens,” Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said.

“We are once again calling on sanctuary politicians, agitators, and the media to turn the temperature down and stop calling for violence and resistance against ICE law enforcement,” McLaughlin said.

Gangs and cartels in Mexico have threatened bounties of up to $50,000 to take out immigration authorities. Last month, a sniper opened fire on an ICE facility in Dallas, killing two detainees despite intending to kill feds.

Violent anti-ICE rioters took to LA over the summer, hurling concrete blocks at authorities, blocking major highways and setting Waymo autonomous electric vehicles ablaze. President Donald Trump called in the National Guard and Marines to quell the violence.

The Trump administration also recently hit Antifa with its first terrorism charges over a violent ambush at the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, on July 4, when a cell of militants lured agents out of the facility with fireworks and began shooting at them. A local police officer was shot during the attack.

President Donald Trump confirmed on Tuesday that his legal team is seeking damages from the Department of Justice.

Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that his legal team was seeking damages from the Department of Justice because “they rigged the election.” While noting the conflict of interest involved in the case, he said that any money he received would go to charity.

“I don’t know what the numbers are, I don’t even talk to them about it,” the president said, referring to the amount of money his legal team has demanded from the Justice Department. “All I know is that they would owe me a lot of money, but I’m not looking for money. I’d give it to charity or something.”

The president noted cases he has already settled with CBS for $16 million and ABC for $15 million. “They paid me a lot of money because what they did was wrong,” the president said before admitting that the DOJ case is different because “I’m the one that makes the decision.”

“That decision would have to go across my desk, and it’s awfully strange to make a decision where I’m paying myself. In other words, did you ever have one of those cases where you have to decide how much you’re paying yourself in damages? But I was damaged very greatly and any money that I would get, I would give to charity,” said Trump.

President Trump on NYT reporting he’s seeking $230 million from the DOJ in response to the investigations into him: “With the country, it’s interesting because I’m the one that makes the decision, right? And that decision would have to go across my desk. And it’s awfully strange… pic.twitter.com/i86VXEJVTq

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) October 21, 2025

The president’s explanation of his legal wrangling with the Justice Department came in response to a reporter’s question about a story in The New York Times that Trump’s legal team is seeking $230 million in damages from the DOJ for prior investigations into the president.

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Trump’s legal team submitted its first complaints against the DOJ, starting the process that could eventually lead to a lawsuit, in 2023 long before the president began his second term in office. That complaint requested compensation for the FBI’s investigations into the president’s 2016 campaign, and a special counsel investigation into false ties between the president and Russia, according to The New York Times.

Trump’s legal team filed a second complaint in 2024 that is related to the Justice Department’s investigation into his handling of classified documents, which involved an FBI raid on Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago.

The complaints are still administrative claims filed with the Justice Department and may not become a lawsuit, as the people atop the department were positioned there by the president. For instance, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is one of two people able to sign off on settlements for administrative claims per DOJ guidelines.