Shocking video captures moment fake ICE agent grabs McDonald’s worker by the neck and threatens to deport him

This is the shocking moment a man pretending to be an ICE agent attacked a McDonald’s manager and threatened to deport him.

Joshua Cobb, 40, is accused of impersonating a federal immigration agent and assaulting Daniel Martinez in upscale La Jolla, San Diego, on Thursday.

Video of the incident allegedly shows Cobb leaping behind the counter and grabbing Martinez in a choke hold in the frightening lunchtime ambush.

“Why do you think your 911 phone calls aren’t [expletive] working?” snarled Cobb in the video, just moments after wringing Martinez by the neck.

Wearing jeans, an oversized NASA t-shirt and backwards cap, he first identified himself as a federal agent before striding behind the restaurant’s font counter and grabbing Martinez by the neck from behind.

He got Martinez in a headlock and the two careened around the kitchen near a drink machine, until other McDonald’s employees intervened.

After the attack was thwarted by the coworkers, Cobb still remained in the store and continued his preposterous rant.

“Why do you think I’m willing to take two punches in the [expletive] face with some illegal immigrants, while I make an arrest for Immigration and Customs Enforcement,” the ICE faker said.

Cops said Cobb is a local vagrant who could have caused serious injury to Martinez when he took the store manager in a rear naked chokehold.

Martinez told a local newscaster he had worked at the busy fast-food joint on Nobel Drive for six years, and that Cobb was a regular customer there.

“He just goes inside to grab sodas and left a mess,” said Martinez of the crazed phony ICE agent. “He grabbed me from, from the back, grabbed my neck like really hard,” said Martinez.

“So when that happened, all my coworkers jumped on him, and he let go, but after that, he just punched me on the side.”

Cobb was arrested and released. He was charged with misdemeanor assault and impersonating an officer. He could not be immediately reached for comment.

San Diego PD spokesman Lt. Cesar Jimenez said: “Because of the concerns in California around ICE agents and the use of force, we wanted to make sure this people knew was not an ICE agent.”

McDonald’s didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment, and the store’s staff declined to talk about the scary incident.