Border Patrol chief crashes Newsom's rollout of California redistricting campaign

[orangecrush]

As Gov. Gavin Newsom launched his California redistricting campaign Thursday at an event in Los Angeles, a U.S. Border Patrol sector chief showed up outside with a contingent of armed and masked agents.

Agents, some heavily armed and carrying zip ties, arrested “a few” people outside the event, Newsom spokesperson Izzy Gardon said. Video posted online showed one man in handcuffs being led away.

Leading the action was Gregory Bovino, head of the Border Patrol’s El Centro sector, which has aggressively touted its anti-immigrant stance on social media and is under a court injunction blocking the agency from indiscriminately arresting people based on their appearance or location.

“We’re here making Los Angeles a safer place, since we don’t have politicians that’ll do that,” Bovino told a reporter in a clip posted by Newsom’s office.

“WE WILL NOT BE INTIMIDATED!” the governor’s office wrote in the post.


https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/newsom-california-redistricting-20817711.php


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[ret5hd]

1. ya know, i think that stunt is gonna work...

in the governor’s favor.

[NJCher]

2. thug tactics

again.

[orangecrush]

5. The biggest gang threat in America

His thugs.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. I thought we put Nazis in jail

Guess I live in the 1950s.

[Emile]

4. Fascists have no shame.

[orangecrush]

6. It's a matter of time

Before they actually go in and drag Democrats out.

This is not a drill.

[subterranean]

7. I think this foreshadows what they'll try in next year's midterms.

[orangecrush]

8. I agree.