UPPER WEST SIDE, Manhattan (WABC) -- A coach for youth baseball in Manhattan says a group of ICE agents approached members of his team while they were practicing in Riverside Park.
Harlem Baseball Hitting Academy founder Yeoman Wilder was coaching middle and high school students there on July 3, when he says six ICE officers walked through the Upper West Side park past the basketball courts.
"But I didn't really think too much about it. I just thought, eh, they're ICE officers, because I'd seen them in Washington Heights before," Wilder said.
But then, he says they approached the kids and started asking questions.
"Where they're from, who are their parents, and I just thought, 'whoa, whoa, this is... this is not good,'" Wilder said.
Wilder has a masters degree in law, and told them they didn't need to answer those questions.
"I told my kids to walk to the back of the cages, right here, and I said they're going to invoke their fifth amendment rights, they're not going to say anything," Wilder said.
He says one of the officers raised his voice.
"That's when I was called a YouTube lawyer, and I said, 'No, I just know how the Constitution works,'" Wilder said.
All of the kids, he says, are American citizens.
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