Federal agents fire on vehicle during San Bernardino standoff, DHS confirms

[SunSeeker]

A Saturday morning confrontation between federal immigration agents and a local family in San Bernardino escalated into gunfire and a seven-hour standoff before ending without arrests, according to both advocates and police.

The incident began at about 8:40 a.m. on Aug. 16, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stopped a man near 1030 N. Mountain View Avenue, according to the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice. The advocacy group said the agents, who did not present a warrant, fired three times at the man’s vehicle before he returned home with his family and called 911.

San Bernardino police confirmed in a statement that officers were dispatched at 8:51 a.m. following reports of shots fired near Acacia Avenue and Baseline Street. When officers arrived, they encountered federal agents who told them they had been involved in an officer-involved shooting and that the suspect had fled.

Shortly after, the man contacted police dispatchers himself, saying “masked men” had broken his car window and fired at him, according to the statement. The man, who said he did not know the agents’ identities, requested police assistance. Officers later located him on Mountain View Drive but did not intervene further, citing the California Values Act, which prohibits local law enforcement from assisting with immigration enforcement.

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/ice-operation-leads-to-gunfire-standoff/

[70sEraVet]

1. Masked men in uniforms that could either be fed agents or paramilitary.....

Randomly stopping brown people, without warrants or cause, smashing car windows if they sense lack of compliance, then firing their weapons at the vehicle.....
It sickens me. Grateful for the efforts of Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice!

[cbabe]

2. Car jacking. Not an ice action without a warrant, just thuggery.

[moniss]

3. We've all seen the videos of

cops arriving on any scene and demanding ID from everybody. I'll pretty much guarantee that they did not demand ID from any of the masked thugs. So if this man who was shot at goes to file a court action it will go nowhere because he cannot show who they were and there will be no way to prove they worked for the Feds. That is really the main reason these people are masked. It is to deny an ability to hold people accountable for their actions.