Southland leaders are lashing out again at ongoing immigration-enforcement raids in the area, saying masked federal agents were employing questionable tactics by traveling in often-unmarked vehicles and making arrests without showing identification or producing warrants.
The criticism followed another weekend of immigrants being detained, with some actions captured on cell phone video and generating allegations of excessive force or unwarranted arrests.
On Saturday, a man identified as Narciso Barranco — father to three sons who served in the U.S. Marines — was taken into custody in Santa Ana. The video shows several masked agents taking the man to the ground, striking him several times. One of his sons said his father was working as a landscaper at an IHOP restaurant at Edinger Avenue and Ritchey Street when he was arrested.
His son said Barranco had recently applied to become a U.S. citizen.
After video of the arrest was widely circulated on local media, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security posted its own video online and said the man assaulted federal agents with a “weed whacker.” The video shows Barranco wielding the weed whacker, briefly pointing it toward one of the agents. It was unclear if any of them were actually struck with the equipment, which is later seen on the ground as Barranco is being taken into custody.
“He assaulted federal law enforcement with a weed whacker,” according to the DHS post. “Perhaps the mainstream media would like our officers to stand there and be mowed down instead of defending themselves? What a completely slanted portrayal of what actually happened.”
In a separate incident Sunday, masked men who appear to be federal agents storm a Bubble Bath Hand Car Wash in Torrance and forcibly take two men into custody. Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn condemned the arrests, which were also caught on cell phone video.
“Just a block away from a monthly street fair where Torrance families were enjoying a normal Sunday afternoon, these masked thugs sent by our own federal government violently raided a local car wash — shoving a worker’s face into a gate and throwing another onto the ground,” Hahn said in a statement Monday. “All the while, another federal agent films the raid with camera equipment. They are trying to make an example of these hardworking people, robbing businesses of their workers and families of their breadwinners.”
Video of the arrests shows the car wash owner confronting the federal agents, ordering them off the property. At one point, the man gets into an argument with one of the masked agents, who accused the man of employing illegal immigrants.
In Pasadena on Monday, a group of elected officials and community leaders gathered to call for transparency from the federal government and immigration-enforcement agencies.
State Sen. Sasha Renée Pérez, D-Pasadena, blasted the tactics of federal authorities in the series of raids, noting the agents’ wearing of masks and civilian clothing, and their use of often-unmarked vehicles — which she said could lead to imposters assaulting people on the street while claiming to be law enforcement.
“They are federal agents from Homeland Security or ICE, but the truth is, unless these individuals provide proper identification, we don’t know,” Pérez said. “And when we receive reports of these individuals using excessive force, without identification, we have no way to provide oversight and accountability.”
Federal officials have defended agents’ efforts to maintain anonymity during immigration operations, saying it is essential to maintain their safety from protesters who could publicize their names and other information, potentially endangering their lives and their families.
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a statement on social media following incidents in Bell and Maywood, saying Border Patrol vehicles were violently targeted during lawful operations.
A Trump administration spokeswoman chided local officials for complaining about the immigration raids and pointed out the continued threats Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents face.
“Attacks against ICE officers have increased 500% because of this unhinged, extremist rhetoric from Democrat politicians,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told the Los Angeles Times. “The LA Times should do some real reporting, instead of just regurgitating Democrat propaganda.”
Last week also saw Vice President JD Vance in the Los Angeles area Friday to meet with federally deployed troops and accuse Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom of egging on violent reactions to the immigration crackdown. Bass labeled those claims “outright lies” and “utter nonsense.”
Also Monday, Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell defended his agency’s handling of the recent immigration-enforcement protests, which sparked some allegations of excessive force and indiscriminate use of non-lethal weaponry and tear gas, with the chief saying suggestions the response was undisciplined or lacked oversight are “simply not accurate.”
In a lengthy written statement, McDonnell said he felt compelled to respond to recent allegations — some raised in a weekend report by the Los Angeles Times — questioning the LAPD’s tactics in dealing with protesters over the past two weeks.
McDonnell said he takes all accusations of misconduct seriously and all use-of-force cases will be investigated.
“Our officers are held to the highest standards — legally, ethically, and operationally,” the chief said. “And when we find that an officer has fallen short, we take swift and appropriate action. That is not new. That is our duty.”
But McDonnell said accountability “must cut both ways,” pointing to the “dangerous, fluid and ultimately violent conditions our officers encountered.”
“When demonstrators began throwing objects, setting fires, and refusing to disperse after repeated lawful orders were given, officers were justified in taking swift and measured action to prevent further harm and restore public safety,” the chief said.
But they will never listen to anything.
The Gender Issue!!!;
The Curse of Medusa
Every man was conceived to be a woman long before natural selection comes along and only reason natural selection comes along is because your father ran down the street fucking everybody else and never fuck you constantly for 9 months straight so you popped out as a shemale to take care of and treat your mother with respect and honor better than your father did and you tossed her to the curb to pick up with another woman. Second of all everybody came from Medusa’s daughter Eve when we ran out of the garden with Medusa’s daughter Eve we ran out of the garden of Eden with a serpent’s child being a serpent child every man is conceived to be a woman long before natural selection and every woman was conceived to be a man so the only gender dysphobia issue is we’re all transgender no matter what.
And the second part!
Ever since Julius Caesar was knife down in that tunnel we’ve always had to lay our head between the legs of a serpent we’ve always been conceived as a serpent child that falls out with a penis legs and arms hair on our head because the Roman senate made it So now here we are after five and a half flood’s and the serpent blood has gotten really stretched thin there is demons coming out of them the children are turning into God awful creatures and how you go out there and you execute somebody by taking the man’s life and murdering him and you wonder why he came back as a female serial killer and I call that precognant policing.
And the third part:
Hell Im the one that I got up on the cross to die for every man’s sin because how you got to sleep next to her everyday, She point out to him that the kettle is black but yet never understand how you’re the only homosexual on the planet conceived to be a man and fell out with a pussy and a pair of tits because how that’s how our life cycle starts every egg cracks open and the snakes slithers out vagina and you wonder why God won’t talk to you.
I’ve given up the Need to Serpents Sex, Since every Child starts out as a Snake. When it cracks the egg and slithers down the uterus to bite the umbilical cord to Grow Arms & Legs & Hair with a Human-Like Appearance! That thinks he’s a man!
Wouldn’t it be better being a person that didn’t have to change for someone else’s opinion because the fact that were conceived to be a female snake and you fell out as a female / Male Appearing human being. From conception to 13 weeks the species inside of birthing stage there’s no head there’s there’s no arms no legs there’s no hair on the body there’s nothing it’s just a Snake at one end and a Tail at the other end and it gestation process in the middle.
That had to be wrestle with a snake charmer could be hypnotizing to doing absolutely the opposite of what you wanted to do in the world how your own mother would chop your own head off with a 10,000 fold sword and sit there and ask what did they done they got somebody to spray them in the face with a concoction of DMT crystal meth heroin and the list keeps going on anthrax ansied benzene they would pump these drugs into these people while they were Ass Raping them all how they gave them all catheters out there at Desert Palm everybody got a catheter out there after they killed all the people that they need to do all this work cuz a lot of your entire celebrity list out there in the world
that grew a penis because she was Transgender as well as you were only male because we’re both in our period stage at the moment for you’re not conceived to be a woman you were conceived to be a man and fell out with women parts for he was conceived to be a woman and he fell out with the penis for where all conceived to be in egg that we hatch out and slither down to the uterus to bite ahold of the umbilical cord so that the serpent is conformed into a human appearing person. With head,arms,legs and hair on our body and fall out.
Here we are the serpenters trying to figure out our own life & our own expectancy of what was going to happen and here we are trying to praise to the Lord Jesus Christ but he won’t look down upon us because hell we’re a Serpent Race that appears to be human. We use SETI to look into the space to find an alien racer to the intelligent as in a smart and speaks in the language that we speak in. But the problem for that is we’re a conceived to be a female snake that falls out appearing to be a human being hoping like hell we’re going to see another human being in space coming back at us. And there’s no intelligence is stupid as we are.
So I believe that they’re getting everybody ready for their next life and destroying the planet to nothing so that I can be here. As the king of nothing!