As Los Angeles and surrounding Southern California cities proceed to be besieged by ICE raids, violent detainments, and protests, one case is sparking distinctive anger and outrage throughout the area.
Narciso Barranco was doing his job as a landscaper exterior of an IHOP restaurant on Saturday within the closely Latino metropolis of Santa Ana when seven masked brokers jumped out of unmarked automobiles and approached him. Video of his ensuing arrest went viral as a result of the lads are clearly proven beating Rodriguez and punching him within the head as he’s on the bottom.
Native information station KTLA precisely described the assailants as “masked males carrying U.S. Border Patrol vests,” a nod to widespread criticism of the brokers’ refusal to determine themselves as they kidnap brown individuals off the streets with out warrants or trigger and throw them into unmarked automobiles.
And the reality hurts, as evidenced by the Division of Homeland Safety’s defensive response to the most recent controversial encounter.
“He ASSAULTED federal regulation enforcement with a WEED WHACKER,” mentioned an official DHS post on X Monday. “Maybe the mainstream media would love our officers to face there and be mowed down as a substitute of defending themselves? What a very slanted portrayal of what really occurred.”
The whiny put up was accompanied by extra video of Rodriguez’s detainment, which confirmed a frantic man making an attempt to run away from a number of armed males and pepper spray whereas holding a piece device. Oddly, the video had no sound, which makes it not possible to find out whether or not the weed whacker was even operating. In the background, a masked man could be seen pointing a gun at a passing automobile, which solely illustrates the chaos and terror these unhinged “brokers” are unleashing on harmless individuals whose solely crime is trying “unlawful.”
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It’s no surprise DHS is pushing again towards the resulting uproar that sparked extra protests in Santa Ana: It seems Rodriguez is the daddy of three U.S. Marines, together with two on lively obligation.
“I really feel betrayed,” former Marine Alejandro Barranco advised The Orange County Register. “My dad has no felony historical past. He wasn’t doing something dangerous. He was simply working. The best way they (federal brokers) attacked him, I don’t suppose it’s proper.”
Alejandro Barranco, who served in Afghanistan, advised the Register his father has no felony historical past and was within the technique of making use of for parole-in-place, which might grant undocumented relations of active-duty army permission to remain within the U.S. for an undetermined interval.
The veteran advised group newspaper The Santanero that his father was capable of name him from a Los Angeles detention facility and “humbly requested him to ‘end the job he was doing when he received detained.’”
Democratic lawmakers, together with Reps. Mike Levin and Lou Correa, denounced the motion and known as for an finish to the indiscriminate raids and detentions.
“That is simply insanity,” Correa advised the Register. “You might have a household of three youngsters that took an oath for the nation, prepared to put down their lives for this nation, and their dad and mom can’t keep right here?”
DHS is continuous a sample of lying about its actions throughout raids and detainments. Officers lied about brokers making an attempt to realize entry to the Dodger Stadium car parking zone, and in addition lied once they claimed New York Metropolis Comptroller Brad Lander was arrested for assaulting ICE brokers whereas he was escorting immigrants at a courthouse.
In addition they lied and mentioned Sen. Alex Padilla of California was manhandled and detained for not asserting his id when making an attempt to ask a query throughout a press convention being held by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, when video of the incident included clear audio of Padilla figuring out himself.
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The group has rallied across the Barranco household, donating to a GoFundMe to cowl authorized bills and persevering with to carry raucous protests exterior of Orange County resorts housing ICE brokers and Border Patrol officers whereas they’re on the town doing their soiled work. However the racist Trump administration’s cussed refusal to confess any wrongdoing, as proven of their tireless persecution of wrongfully deported Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia, means Narciso Barranco’s eventual freedom is much from assured.
