Sunnyside resident alleges violent ICE arrest outside his home

A cellphone video from Mangels Avenue captured masked federal officers pinning Marvin Godoy Calderon to the ground outside his Sunnyside home, turning a quiet residential block into the scene of a federal immigration arrest. Residents said the confrontation unfolded around 8:15 a.m. on Wednesday, May 27, while Calderon was sitting in his silver Hyundai in front of the house.

Calderon later alleged that federal agents knelt on his neck during the arrest, and he was released 13 hours later. A 17-year-old witness, Charlie Steinberg, said he saw masked officers in bulletproof vests and carrying rifles as the arrest played out in front of neighbors. Another resident, Manoj, recorded footage that showed officers pinning Calderon to the ground. Neighbors said the operation was visible enough to draw immediate attention on the block.

The Department of Homeland Security identified Calderon as an undocumented immigrant from Peru and said he would remain in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody pending removal proceedings. The agency’s account framed the arrest as an immigration enforcement action, while the street-level accounts from Sunnyside centered on force, timing and the fact that it happened in front of a home rather than at a courthouse or a workplace.

For San Francisco, the episode lands in the middle of a long-running sanctuary-city framework that limits how much local government can do when federal immigration agents act on a city block. San Francisco adopted its Sanctuary Ordinance in 1989, expanded those protections through the Due Process for All ordinance in 2013 and last amended the rules in July 2016. City policy generally bars employees from assisting ICE in civil immigration enforcement or cooperating with ICE detainer requests.

That means city officials do not control federal agents once an arrest is underway, even if residents say the encounter turned violent. What the city can do is direct people to the SF Rapid Response Network’s hotline at 415-200-1548 for legal help and support services, and use public pressure to document and challenge what happened. On March 10, 2026, the San Francisco Immigrant Rights Commission reaffirmed the city’s sanctuary commitments and denounced escalating immigration enforcement and unlawful detention.

The arrest also adds to wider scrutiny of ICE activity in San Francisco, including repeated enforcement actions around 630 Sansome St., which has been identified locally as the agency’s field office and immigration court location. For Sunnyside, though, the debate over immigration policy became immediate and personal on Mangels Avenue, where neighbors watched a federal arrest spill onto an ordinary morning block.