"For now let me tell you about one victim of President Trump's mountain of lies whose brush with the administration defined our 2025. On June 7, Brayan Ramos-Brito drove east on Alondra Boulevard from Compton toward a Chevron in Paramount to buy some snacks. It was his day off. It also was the weekend when Trump unleashed his deportation Leviathan on Southern California in a campaign that hasn't stopped."
"Ramos-Brito, a cook, had no idea that was going on as traffic froze on Alondra in front of a Home Depot. A "stay-at-home type of guy," he didn't even vote in the 2024 election because "politics isn't my thing." But as the slender 30-year-old sat in his car, he saw federal immigration agents who had gathered across the street from the Home Depot fire flash-bang grenades at protesters who were screaming at them to leave. That's when the moment "got to me.""
Mass deportation actions in Southern California provoked confrontations and large protests. On June 7, Brayan Ramos-Brito, a U.S. citizen and cook, drove toward a Chevron in Paramount and witnessed federal agents firing flash-bang grenades at protesters. Ramos-Brito confronted agents, was shoved into a crowd, beaten with knees and kicks, zip-tied and placed in a van with others while smoke and tear gas seeped inside. Detainees reported being unable to breathe and being ignored. Photos and footage from the protest went viral and prompted an even larger rally the following day.
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