Narciso Barranco, 48, a landscaper from Tustin in Southern California, was left bloodied and visibly shaken after being violently detained by at least seven alleged immigration officers while working outside of an IHOP on Saturday.

In one short video first posted by Santa Ana councilman Johnathan Hernandez and the social Instagram account @Santaanaproblems, alleged Customs and Border Protection agents struck Barranco in the head at least six times, thrusting his face into the concrete and kneeling on his neck, before he was forced into the back of a light-colored Chevrolet SUV using a truncheon.

Barranco’s shoulder was left dislocated, his eldest son, Alejandro, a 25-year-old Marine veteran, told the Los Angeles Times.

Alejandro Barranco, who served with the Marine Corps in Afghanistan, told the Santanero that his father was transferred to a detention facility in LA.

Sorry about the Instagram link: https://www.instagram.com/santaanaproblems/reel/DLQBSVKRoKa/

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    Beating people is fine, immigrants, even better. But now they are coming for MARINES and their parents? The terrorist breeders??? Not good.

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    Attacking marine dads. This is perfect, in the sense that if marines weren’t already on the side of the people, they are now. Hope this guy recovers well, because the shoulder is one thing… but this is also an emotionally traumatizing experience

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      Some of them will change their minds. But I suspect that many will be fine with it for the same reason they don’t care about any other lines being crossed - the victim is brown.

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    If 40 years on this wonder ball floating in space, has taught me anything, police in the USA love beating nonwhites.

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    I wonder if they’re rethinking their decision to join this country’s armed forces.

    At least they got some useful skills out of it. Hopefully they put them to good use! 🙂

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      I doubt it, honestly.

      If you’re still on board with Trump at this point you’d just explain this away as an isolated accident.

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      Yeah, the common phrase used by people joining is they joined “to protect your freedom.” If it turns out that the actual threat to our freedom is at home, are they still willing to fight?

      (I know, the vast majority of enlistees didn’t join for this reason. They joined to get out of a bad situation. It’s a job with fairly good pay and fantastic benefits.)

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        Or they are hypocrites because a lot of them join to escape poverty. It’s easy for the military, the marines and all those recruit poor people. Sometimes they don’t really have much choice anyway.

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        Yeah that tracks.

        Horrible fact for the day: the word they use in official reports for Mexican immigrants is “tonk” (after a lot of people got upset that they used the word “wetback” in official documents). Know why?

        It’s the sound a metal flashlight makes when impacting a human head.

        Yeah.

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    Truely “shocking”, I never thought this would happen!!

    I am sure glad this only happens when somebody is recording!

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    This will be the plot to a revenge movie in the future.

    Those ice “agents” will be getting a visit in the night. Like in Yellowstone or something

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    They seem to love hitting Marines. There’s no way there aren’t other Marines out there just waiting for a confrontation.

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      No they go after the OLD immigrants. They were so proud of having raided a dangerous swap meet last week… full of people shopping for tools, baby clothes and second hand furniture.

      They will never go after a marine or a gang member… these ones can fight back.

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      “to be fair”, the veterans Marines in this news is the “wrong color”. edit: I’m not American and don’t know how to use the veteran status so I changed it to Marines as per the article.

      pretty sure the white supremacists resent having “animals” in their ranks.

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        To be fair they’re the wrong colour? Wtf are you even saying here?.. and, can you not?

        Like can you not be stepping in right now to try to explain for the racists? Who do you think you’re helping out by deciding that’s necessary?

        STFU.

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          I’m sorry. you’re right, there’s no excuse for that comment. I didn’t treat this seriously, and didn’t think through what I wrote

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            It’s cool bro, commenting on the Internet gets like that sometimes. But in this case I think we all understand what’s going on.

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      I’d really like to think these sins will not go unpunished.

      With recriminations in orders of magnitude.

      Go gettem boys.

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      If these three marine sons are going to stand around and let masked vigilantes beat up their dad, that does not speak well for the backbone of the rest of the nation.

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      I would say that it depends on who you’re talking about for the leopards at my face. It’s not his fault if his kids voted for trump, only if he voted for trump.