Video Shows ICE Agents Shoving and Pepper Spraying Woman in the Face at Point Blank Range
U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) agents confronted residents of Santa Barbara’s Eastside neighborhood on Wednesday morning, January 28.
Around 7:00 a.m., residents discovered ICE agents in vehicles patrolling their neighborhood. Video captured by Ashley Farrell show residents honking horns of their vehicles and blowing whistles to alert their neighbors of ICE’s presence.
“This is what community looks like,” Farrell stated as video appearing to show other residents following ICE agent’s vehicles and continuing to honk their horns. “We run these Nazis out of town or we live under authoritarian rule for the rest of our lives, those are our options,” she said.
According to video footage on social media, ICE agents exited their vehicles in the area of Salinas and Carpinteria Streets as more residents gathered on the street and sidewalk filming their actions.
A masked ICE agent was seen exiting a white Ford sedan carrying what a large canister of pepper spray. The agent threatens to spray the crowd if they don’t move out of the way and move a vehicle that is in the roadway.
Additional ICE agents arrive on the scene as one agent can be seen on camera shoving a woman who was filming them as the crowd shouts, “do not touch her!”
The agent is seen again grabbing the woman by the arm and shoving her away from the vehicle. He then sprays her in the face with pepper spray at point-blank range. The crowd screams as residents surround the woman and take her to a nearby home for medical care.
[Warning: The below video depicts graphic language]
At 7:17 a.m., the Santa Barbara Police Department stated it received reports of a large fight in the area of Salinas and Carpinteria Streets.
The police department states that upon arrival, officers determined the large crowd was a combination of community members and ICE agents.
“The Santa Barbara Police Department had no prior knowledge that the ICE agents would be at that location or anywhere in the City of Santa Barbara today. Officers attempted to de-escalate the situation and the ICE Agents left the scene,” the department stated.
The department went on to state that during their investigation, officers learned that one individual had been pushed by an ICE agent, and another individual had been sprayed with pepper spray prior to officers’ arrival. Santa Barbara Police officers summoned Santa Barbara Fire Department personnel to the scene to provide medical assistance to the individual who had been exposed to pepper spray. Fire personnel rendered aid at the scene.
“Officers took statements from involved community members regarding the events that occurred prior to police arrival and documented this incident in a report with the information provided to the officers on scene. Santa Barbara Police provided traffic control in the surrounding area to ensure public safety,” the department stated.
Video footage shows ICE agents had pulled their vehicles to the side of the road while police officers were helping to direct traffic.
There were no arrests made by the Santa Barbara Police Department, and the department stated its role at the scene was limited to medical aid coordination, information gathering, and traffic management.
Video footage shows residents cheering as ICE agents and their vehicles left the scene.
[Warning: The below video contains graphic language]
Congressional Representative Salud Carbajal stated his office is aware of this incident and they are coordinating with local officials to gather the facts.
“Please remain vigilant and stay safe. Now more than ever, it’s important to know your rights when interacting with ICE officers. You can find my office’s bilingual resource guide here,” Carbajal stated.
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ALEX – pretty amazing this guy posts with his real name in such a small town. Some people have no shame or are just too stupid to realize that words have consequences. I wonder why he’s no longer at Westmont?
It actually shows how mentally unhinged the guy is. He will probably be arrested for domestic violence or road rage pretty soon, if not an old SA case.
Perhaps some screenshots will get mailed to Westmont HR and Sagent HR. They would be interested if one of theirs is using school or company owned equipment to produce hate speech.
Come and get it ICE pigs.
“Pigs?” Wow. You an “old school” rioter of the 60’s?
Hey, if the shoe fits…
hah! i said that same thing before i saw your comment lol
Mercenary puppet thugs. That work better for you?
you guys do realize a lot of those jack boot aholes are proud boys….yep, trump and miller have flooded ICE with Proud boys and other white nationalist groups. not kidding
DOOLY – you must have missed the 70s, 80s and 90s. Where you cleaning sewers for Trump’s buildings then?
You’re right. Calling them “pigs” is totally unfair to pigs, other than the obvious physical resemblance. Pigs are are far more intelligent and far less violent than ICE agents.
LOL! that totally made me belly laugh. very accurate 😉
if the shoe fits, doulie….yeah they are swines of the highest order. shoving a woman and spraying her with a toxic chemical agent, and you’re ok with that? really? that woman is someones mother, sister, aunt and friend and she is OUR community member.
douIie – The 60’s? Is that when your parents bought their house on the Mesa for $14k ?
Please, SBPD, document the ICE assaults against citizens for future prosecution of the guilty agents.
I was just gonna say the same thing. Newsom is advancing a state law to hold federal agents accountable for breaking state laws. We can do this.
Looks more like agitators assaulting ICE to me.
Sure hiker take a hike.
and you say that about your own community members? please relocate to cuba, they will welcome you there. funny, hiding behind anonymous. if you stand by your statement, show who you are. calling you out RN. assaulting ice? i can’t even begin to pick apart your lame comment, if i do, it won’t be pretty and will get deleted by the admin.
HIKER – how did they assault ICE? Did you even watch the video?
You claim to have made a determination based on what you saw (“looks more like”) so go ahead and explain where anyone “assaulted” ICE.
Thank you, SBPD, for being the real police in this situation.
F8ck ICE and all who lick their boots.
So let me get this straight. Law enforcement personnel are trying make an arrest with most likely an administrative warrant, authorized by Congress in 2003. They usually have them since they are so easy to get. These people were harassing, obstructing, and for many of the officers, endangering their safety, and definitely their ability to find and arrest the person they had a warrant for. The verbal assaults, particularly since they were using automobiles to obstruct the officer’s ability to communicate or do their job are obstruction. This is not protected speech. Given that this person was in the middle of the road, obstructing traffic is considered obstructing the officer. If you don’t want this to happen, you can move to a blue state, vote for a liberal congressman and change the laws or continue to see if these non-peaceful protests work in reducing ICE. So far these actions seem to have increased the deportation and number of agents.
I know the smarmy little beta male republicans want to grease the way for the boot – but real men will stop NAZl oppression. Funny you don’t mention the citizens who have been killed, the citizens who were wrongfully arrested, the demonic behavior of proud boy ice agents or the destruction of the 1st, 4th and 5th amendments. You keep protecting the boot, and the chief rapist of children in the white house – you protect the Epstein files. The enemy is among us…
Yeah, it’s obstruction of federal law enforcement, plain and simple. That’s what these agitators do. Block the road, vandalize cars, harass officers, etc. Then they expect to get their way and have zero consequences. Sometimes very avoidable and very bad things happen to them, as we’ve seen. I’d at least bring myself a bottle of water if I was repeatedly refusing an officer’s demands to back up in the face of a can of pepper spray. Wow. Oh well.
BASIC – do you believe the punishment for obstructing law enforcement without violence should be bullets in the face and back of the head?
Yes or no?
You’ve never stood up for anything in your life.
It’s calling out law breaking by masked, armed, untrained thugs assaulting citizens exercising their constitutional rights.
Plain and simple lies from con social media is what you pander to.
Are they federal law enforcement? How would you know?Irregular uniforms, masks, no identification. Just stuff anyone can buy online. When I was on active duty, my uniform had my name, rank and unit identification on it. I could not wear a mask. Breaking the law while assuming the imprimatur of the federal government is terrorism. Read your constitution. You don’t need to obey illegal orders. You do not have to obey demands from somebody masquerading as law-enforcement because they yelled at you. You just don’t. Look up what happened to the British soldiers, who are were our country’s military law enforcement at the time, in 1775, at Lexington. That is American tradition. Not shoving women around while wearing a mask and irregular uniforms and shooting people on the back.
Finally, Holman and Bovino need to learn about what happened to Ernest Rohm.
this post says it all!
Basic, absolute nonsense as usual. Smarmy beta male conservative victimhood remarks. It is pathetic and sick to live in a realm of disinformation and fear. The same types of people voted for Hltler and invited the NAZlS right through their doors. We know who the enemy among us is. People with those beliefs have no place in our town, in our families, in our workplaces, or in our inner circles. Your comments are un-American, vile and disgusting.
obstruction for being in their own neighborhood? obstruction for recording? basic just go away. not one person here cares what you have to say or your weird angry opinions. and i mean this literally and figuratively. block roads? LOL the only people blocking the road was ICE and it’s caravan of goons! Also, “obstruction”, if it were actually that, doesn’t equate to breaking state penal code S244. Illegal use of a caustic chemical agent against a non combative citizen. that is a straight felony and can and will apply to that agent. Basic, you need to really shut it and do some actual reading. each time you post stuff like this, our community sees you less and less useful and truthful. You’re just a hate machine….
JOJO (of course your name is JOJO) – “verbal assaults?” LOL! Go cry a river to someone else who doesn’t understand the 1st Amendment.
What a cuck snowflake.
“If you don’t want this to happen, you can move to a blue state, vote for a liberal congressman and change the laws” – Um, hey there JOJOJIMBOJIMMYBOBCALEB, maybe look up from the boots you’re swallowing and check a road sign or something. Are you even aware of where you are right now?
Law breaking personnel are…
There. Fixed your typo, jojoke.
> you can move to a blue state
Is there a brain in there somewhere?
explain how they are jeopardizing the fed agents safety. please explain to everyone here. verbal assaults? LOL those thugs physically assaulted a woman in your own community and sprayed her with toxic chemical.
we are waiting for you to explain. if you even can. you see, knuckle draggers such as yourself with a low brow calibur thinking are just parroting what your dictator says. your comment is disgusting and abhorrent and doesn’t help unite our country. go away.
Why didn’t the Santa Barbara Police Department do its job and arrest the man that assaulted the woman with pepper spray? If I walked up to someone else and assaulted them, I sure I would be arrested immediately. It’s their job to protect the citizens of this city. SBPD, do your job!
“Why didn’t the Santa Barbara Police Department do its job and arrest the man that assaulted the woman with pepper spray?”
I believe that once the woman did not comply with LE commands and did the opposite, LE was legally (not morally) justified to give her a quick spray. After being sprayed, she did calm down a bit and complied with LE, which is exactly what LE was asking her to do in the first place. Seems that emotions were running high on both sides. Luckily, they didn’t beat her up or worse like they did to Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Neither deserved to die while simply exercising their right to protest. Both Good and Pretti will be remembered forever and go down in history as heroes to everyone in this country and around the world.
BEES – “LE was legally (not morally) justified to give her a quick spray”
Must have missed the part about you having a law degree.
Their sundowners continue.
Bees? “Both sides”? Like in Charlotte? It is really more enjoyable when you just don’t post. Dog whistles.
*meant to type “Like in Charlottesville”
President Trump defended the white nationalists who protested in Charlottesville on Tuesday, saying they included “some very fine people,” while expressing sympathy for their demonstration against the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. “You also had some very fine people on both sides,” he said.
You need some of that same “calm down” therapy.
What a friggin twit!
Bend those knees!
i called them myself and spoke to Sgt Kerr and asked the same question. asked them why their officer stated to the public and media, ‘we’re not on anyones side”.
told him that is one way to get the locals against the PD again. good job. also asked him why they didn’t detain the fed agent that commited a straight felony and assault. he just sat there thinking and breathing. no comment on that other than the normal, ‘we are investigating this”. i asked him investigating what? there is video evidence of this and dozens of witnesses. more silence. i told him this isn’t looking good for them and they are SWORN TO PROTECT AND SERVE OUR COMMUNITY. that is doing neither.
I’ve reached out to city council and action is being taken there. Mr Gutierrez is in contact with the local authorities and getting the body cam footage released as well as statements from the FD, Paramedics, and PD. There will be some splainin to do….
They were trying to arrest a child molester! Lady, you are the one terrorizing the streets why don’t you be quiet and let them do their job?
Where did you hear that? And why would ICE be arresting a child molester? Was the person undocumented? Had he been found guilty of child molesting? If not, why was he not prosecuted for that crime, whatever his immigration status?
CADILLAC – prove it. Prove they were actually, finally really going after a known criminal. Did a meme tell you that?
If you can’t, then please apologize for lying.
Did you know that your tax money was the reason for the genocide in Gaza? It’s your fault live with it.
Your tax dollars are funding the hiding a cabal of wealthy, elite child rapists. It’s your fault.
Deflecting by changing the subject is what fundamentally dishonest people do.
CADILLAC – Don’t run from the question you gutless coward.
As to your childish deflection, do you really not know how taxes work? You pay them too, pudding.
Sac ftw! BOOM.
ok youre just a moron now.
Post proof
Just as Trump and Kristi Noem lied, you lie … it’s what right wingers do.
really? and you have legit proof of this? that’s a pretty bold statement. i watched them pull my neighbor out of his house at 6 am, in his chonies, beat him and throw him in a van while his wife and kids were crying and watching. his crime. entered illegally. not even a crime, just a civil infraction. i bet you have far worse things in your past than that.
Delusional MAGAcan cesspool.
It’s ALWAYS projection with you RWers.
Bingo!
At this point, equating ICE agents to actual Law Enforcement Professionals is a cruel and brutal joke. These “agents” do not deserve our respect for the “activities” (terrorizing communities of brown people) they are carrying out in our communities, in their dear leaders name.
The folks who are supporting this unprofessional level of terror, lawlessness and murder of the citizenry are not patriotic LE supporters, you’re simply a bigoted and awful human. Shame on us.
THERE IS GOING TO BE A LARGE RALLY TOMORROW AT 1130 AT THE COURT HOUSE. I HOPE ALL OF YOU MAKE IT THERE. I’M ESPECIALLY LOOKING FOR BASIC. LETS CHAT DUDE…..
SAC- HOPE YOU CAN MAKE IT, ALEX TOO. RIGHT IN THE MIDDEL OF THE WORK DAY, BUT I’M CLOSE BY AND WILL BE THERE TO SUPPORT
Yep–I’ll go surf and then I’ll be there.
right on, catch a few for me, supposed to be good sets coming in, i gotta work tho. hope to see you there man.
I will be there. Basic is too chicken to show his buck twenty pound self in public.
Why would I go to a rally like that? Pro-criminal and anti-law enforcement. No thanks. I support your efforts to express yourselves unless you get nasty and violent.
The waves were decent today, definitely on the small side, but conditions were excellent. Have fun girls! Post some pics of your outfits.
It was the cosplay nazi ICE thugs who were nasty and violent, you execrable piece of stupid.
LOL, you don’t surf and you’ve never stood up for anyone in your life, so of course you won’t be there.
He’s like those cowardly little simps in 1930s Germany who would hide indoors until the Nazis showed up to parade and then he’d run out and wave his little flag and look back at his fellow villagers like he’s tough as he waddles around ratting our neighbors to the SS.
When the Nazis are gone, we won’t forget people like this.
Basic, you won’t be there because of your despicable and hateful views and lack of a moral compass.
anti law enforcement? so you believe in the rule of law? if so, why do you support someone that has broken the law almost non stop since taking office. even the first day, he released close to 1000 convicted violent criminals including some that attacked law enforcement. Please explain. Also, the PD and Sheriff department will be there. This is a good chance for you to get up and speak. We would all love to hear and see this. Since youre so vocal and passionate about what you believe in…..
funny. you’re so darned hilarious….hiding behind your monitor. folks, we have an arm chair warrior here.
lol GT
see you tomorrow pal. 🙂
The Rally downtown was AMAZING. hundreds of school kids, teachers, parents, city and county leaders marching up State in front of my office, brought tears to my eyes.
I was at the courthouse for the setup. I met with Oscar Gutierrez, Eric Freedman, Kristen Sneddon, and was introduced to Greg Hart, Monique Limon’s assistant, Sauld’s assistant and a member of the Goleta City Council. I was asked to speak in front of them to explain somethings that I had knowledge of and also on the assault on our community member by ICE. They are pushing to have the agent arrested now.
I had to leave briefly but returned near the end. There are more rallies planned today. Since I don’t know what any of you look like, I’m hoping Alex, GT, and Sac made it? I spoke to a nice older guy on a bike about the event and he was heading to the next one at Ledbetter.
Santa Barbara STRONG! Also met with the City Police and Fire Commissioner , Aaron. Great guy! Beautiful turnout.
KNEIN – way to go! Been stuck at work wrapping things up but my kids are out at Ledbetter and some other stuff. I’m so happy to hear how many young people are joining the resistance! This is their future! So sick of all the uneducated, lonely trolls online crapping on these kids. Infuriating to see kids (mine included) called awful things by “adults” who have nothing in their lives but hate.
ICE supporters have failed, miserably, at life.
KNein – I wasn’t on the “invite list”… BUT, I did see your post yesterday making a mental note to attend (I think that’s where I went wrong – mental note) failing of course to show up on time. I road up there eventually seeing a pretty big crowd still there, couldn’t see who was speaking at the time. Felt a little weird asking where the “edhat contingent” was, so ended up going over to the grassy side and was able get a slightly better view. Lots of energy! well except for the dog napping on lawn…
Thanks for doing all of this!
🚴
oh man I wish i would have seen you. I was hanging around the SB Council members and Greg Hart most of the time and high fiving the students. had to leave and come back a few times due to work and us being short staffed today, but i made sure i was present and spoke. it was cool and weird being introduced to the key players and asked to speak to them on my findings and research and interviews regarding the ICE incident on the east side yesterday. i suck at speaking in front of others LOL…but i had their attention and their ears so i spoke.
thank you to all who were able to show up. more to come
Well done, thank you.
I was there. Also I was at the Ledbetter one after I surfed. So many decent human beings standing up for freedom.