u/Clips1999

Last night, a federal agent pulled his gun on protesters at the Metropolitan Detention Center in DTLA, which serves as an 🧊 processing facility. For several nights in a row, observers had documented children in vans being brought into the building; last night, after a scuffle with protesters, a federal agent seemed to snap. He stalked up and down the block with his hand on his gun, grabbed a woman who had her back to him — who was actively washing mace out of her eyes at the time — and held his gun to her back as protesters screamed for him to stop.

Protesters protected the woman who’d been grabbed and they followed the federal officer with the gun into a nearby parking garage, where a second officer had a firearm pointed at the protesters from an elevator.

LAPD showed up… let them drive away… and arrested a protester who didn’t disperse quickly enough.

Folks will be protesting there again this evening, gathering at 5PM to demand an end to this campaign of terror. Calls to action going around social media are headlined ¡BASTA YA!

Enough already!

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Video credit: @razkull6 on Instagram. He posted much longer footage, including the scuffle leading up to the gun incident — which involved that federal agent repeatedly punching a protester in the head.

I wasn’t there until after this happened and have no context to add about what caused it, beyond the videos on social media.

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