The video of a landscape who is tasks, trapped and perforated repeatedly by federal agents masked in Orange County has become viral online, and Alejandro Barranco finds it painful to see.
The veteran sailor says that his father, Narciso Barranco, was working outside a Santa Ana Ihop on Saturday when several masked men approached him. Scared, he started fleeing, said his son. Moments later, he was on the floor, hero for the men, who beat him.
The young Barranco said Sunday that his father was sprayed and beaten with pepper, and that his shoulder was dislocated. After talking to him on Sunday around 6 pm, Barranco said that his father had not received medical treatment, food or water after more than 24 hours in a detention center in Los Angeles.
“I don’t think it’s alone, I don’t think it’s fair,” Barranco said about the use of force against his father. “I don’t think they need four 200[-pound] In addition, the boys to keep a 5-6 or 5-7 and 150 pounds. ”
The National Security Department and Customs Immigration and Control did not immediately respond to the request for comments of the Times.
The video of the meeting between Barranco and immigration officials has circulated on social networks, causing outrage and the creation of a gofundme to help with the legal representation that had generated more than $ 48,000 from Sunday night.
The 48 -year -old is a working landscape and a child person, his son said. “If someone ever needed help, he was always there,” he said. “It is well known in our community.
From the left, Emanuel, José Luis, Narciso and Alejandro Barranco.
(Alejandro Barranco)
In his first call to his son after the detention, Barranco was less concerned about his wounds and more concerned with his work. He told him where his truck and his team were and asked him to talk to his client and finish the job, said the young Barranco.
Alejandro Barranco, 25, is a veteran of the American Marines and their two younger brothers, Emanuel and José Luis Barranco, are members of active service.
With 700 Marines of Twentynine Palms deployed in Los Angeles following the protests about the recent immigration raids, Barranco said he understood that many of his fellow Marines only follow orders.
“I only know that … they also have feelings found about everything that happens,” said Barranco. “I know they love their country, they want to serve their country, but I am also that they love their parents and love their relatives who are undocumented.
“I am quite sure that we are all pressing for the same thing,” he said, “what is a change in our system.”
