"The road to recovery will be long. I don't know if I will ever be able to play again, but I'm going to try," Alec Bertran told reporters Wednesday.
Bertran suffered a broken finger, along with other injuries, while protesting a July raid at Glass House Farms in Camarillo.
Bertran, who plays guitar and piano, claims immigration agents hit him with less-lethal rounds numerous times, with one of the projectiles hitting his hand and breaking his left ring finger.
"I did not interfere. I stood where I was allowed to stand, and I made my voice known," Bertrand said at the news conference. "I was more than happy to tell them what I thought about them, but that's within my right. I did not interfere in any way. We just stood there and peacefully assembled."
Civil rights attorney James DeSimone is representing Bertrand in his lawsuit against DHS, Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
During the raid, immigration agents fired tear gas and non-lethal rounds at protesters.
Bertrand's legal team says immigration agents were supposed to give the protesters a warning that they were going to fire tear gas and non-lethal rounds into the crowd.
"No warning was given to those individuals," DeSimone said. "Alec Bertrand did not know that he was going to be shot five times in a matter of 15 seconds when he was standing there protesting the activities."
Alec Bertrand added, "They created a war zone that day. A war zone in a peaceful farming town in a California suburb."
DHS issued the following statement to Eyewitness News:
"Due to active litigation involving Mr. Bertrand, DHS has no statement regarding him nor the particulars of his allegations at this time. However, during the service of a judicial warrant on Glass House Farms in Camarillo, CA, well over 100 rioters arrived at the perimeter of this operation. Border Patrol Agents and other allied law enforcement partners maintained two separate lines where rioters gathered. On several occasions, rioters turned violent and began assaulting law enforcement officials by throwing objects at them. At one point, a rioter was seen from a news helicopter firing what appeared to be a handgun at agents."