"ICE Conducts Father’s Day Raids on Santa Barbara’s Westside and Eastside
Observer Reportedly Bear-Sprayed by Agent, as Many as 11 Individuals, Including U.S. Citizen, Detained Sunday Morning"
"ICE agents also apprehended a U.S. citizen in the Father’s Day action, but released him at a hospital in Oxnard, where he was treated for unspecified injuries after it reportedly became apparent that he was a U.S. citizen.
According to the reports, ICE vehicles hit speeds of 80 miles an hour barreling down San Andres Street on their way to the Mission Street off-ramp to Highway 101 in the early morning hours. The ICE agents allegedly then performed donuts with their vehicles under the freeway overpass for about 15 minutes. According to the monitors who were following after them, the agents entered the freeway at speeds in excess of 100 miles an hour.
'We did not get any notification ICE was in town. We didn’t have any calls for service from 1 a.m. on that were remotely close to what was being alleged on the Westside,' stated Santa Barbara Police Chief Kelly Gordon. 'Of course that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen, just that we didn’t get notified by ICE or the community.'”
~ Nick Welsh
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