The Santa Ana City Council on Tuesday voted to issue a formal apology to the family of Edgar Vargas who was wrongfully arrested, beaten and handed over to federal immigration officials 10 years ago in a case that sparked a fight for immigrant’s rights in the city.
A decade after her son’s arrest, Vargas’ mother, Olivia Arzate, still carries the anguish of those terrible events.
In surveillance footage of the June 2014 arrest that surfaced later, officers with the Santa Ana Police Department, who were responding to a burglary call, are seen using excessive force to arrest him…