Masked federal agents roughed up and arrested two US citizens in an immigration raid in California Saturday, and then the government explained that Americans who try to document ICE brutality will also be brutalized — but will be accused of “assaulting an officer.” Why no, we don’t believe anything this government says, for some reason.

During the immigration raid at a Home Depot in Ladera Heights, in LA County, a US citizen who was shopping at the store saw agents holding a man on the ground and ran over to try to get his name and phone number in order to contact a relative. The immigration goons warned him to back off, and when the man continued to try to talk to the guy on the ground, he was tackled to the ground, tased, and arrested, because you don’t interfere with the secret police, foolish troublemaking terrorist.

Another witness to the raid, Rachel Siemons, a volunteer with the HILL Network — a community watch group that monitors ICE activity in Hawthorne, Inglewood, Lennox, and Lawndale (so there’s your acronym) — saw the man taken down by ICE and tried to get his name and contact information, and to get information from the goon squad as well.

The goons repeatedly warned Siemons she would be arrested for “interfering,” although she was maintaining her distance. (Siemons also chastised the goons for covering their faces and not having badges and nameplates, although a recent state law barring masked law enforcement won’t go into effect until January, and Attorney General Pam Bondi says ICE will ignore the law anyway.)

And then they were upon her.

Video taken by another bystander captured Siemons screaming as she was being grabbed, as well as saying she’s a citizen, and saying her name and asking someone to contract her family. Here’s video from NBC LA:


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