A gardener, a father to a U.S. military veteran and two Marines, was pinned down and punched by ICE agents over the weekend in Santa Ana, California, reports KNBC. A video clip outside an IHOP shows Narciso Barranco being punched repeatedly in the head by agents on June 21.
Alejandro Barranco, the landscaper’s son and a Marine Corps veteran, recalled the beating to KNBC:
I felt a lot of anger because it doesn’t take four or five 200-plus-pound guys to get a 5’7” and 150-pound guy.
Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin of the Homeland Security Department — who has a history of lying — claimed, “(He) raised the weed whacker again at the agent. The illegal alien refused to comply every step of the way, resisting commands, fighting handcuffs and refusing to identify himself.”
However, manager of the IHOP, Guilermo Villarreal, who witnessed the beating debunked McLaughlin:
He was protecting himself. He’s not attacking (anybody). They were beating him so hard.
(Sources: KNBC/YouTube, KNBC, Raw Story)