Video shows what witnesses say is a military vehicle that was a Compton immigration raid

A typical Monday afternoon in Compton, broken for several neighbors, they were surprised to see a drab green military vehicle. A man wearing a fatigued, a helmet and what he said seemed to be a bulletproof vest. Residents who spoke to The Times said it was a raid using an armoured vehicle in which the family, including the family, were detained.

Video of the June 9 incident reviewed by The New York Times showed people in the car holding guns, looking like shots of paintball-like hoppers protruding from the top, a configuration that has been used to shoot non-lethal ammunition, including pepper spray balls, during the protests. At some point, the person puts the barrel of the gun down from its vertical position. It is not clear whether the shot will be fired.

This video offers partial views from across the street. Only the top, hatch and armed personnel can see it, and another piece of equipment similar to the isolation gap tool.

Neighbors who spoke to The Times on Sunday, several of whom asked to remain anonymous out of fear of revenge, said the vehicle shot down the front door of the house. The officer then took five to seven people inside, at least two of them children, the neighbors said.

It is unclear which agencies may have been adopted on Sunday, and witness claims cannot be confirmed immediately.

Compton is regulated by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, which said Sunday night: “At present, we don’t know about the incident.” The National Guard forwarded all inquiries to the U.S. Northern Command, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Sunday night. The White House, the Department of Homeland Security, or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement also did not respond to requests for comment.

The raid was a one-story house, close to a set of rails and just a few blocks from the runway at Compton-Wardley Airport. Colorful Easter decorations are still posted in front next to bright yellow flowers on Sunday and faded the “Safe One” home security placard. Mexican themed red and green soccer is situated on a well-stitched lawn.

The driveway door of the waist-high chain fence divides the front yard from the sidewalk, bent and tangled, tied to a metal fence with white ropes. The windshield of a white van and the driver’s side window were smashed in the driveway, and next door neighbor Jesse Ramirez said it happened during the raid.

Ramirez, 25, said when he came home from get off work on June 9, his family who returned home told him what had happened and neighbors showed him a video of the incident.

“They brought our neighbors,” he said. “They came and tore the fence with an armored vehicle.”

Ramirez said five people of Mexican descent — two parents, a third adult and two teenagers — were detained. None of them came back.

Frank Cervantes, 35, said across the street that he was in Chuck E. Cheese when the incident happened but watched it in a video captured by his ring camera. Now, he said, “everyone is under pressure” nearby.

“It’s like a chariot-spoke style,” Cervantes said. “That’s horrible, man. It’s almost dictatorial.”

Cervantes lamented that he thought it was a waste of resources.

“They need to fight fentanyl near the border, what are they doing here?” he said of the raid.

Ramirez said the incident shocked him and his loved ones.

“That’s a little scary considering I have family members who are immigrants,” he said. “They will do their best – they have children. … It’s a cause for them.”