Photos of an ICE agent’s injured hand are at the head of a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) press release from Monday, which claims that he was “attacked” by a “mob of rioters” during the federal raid on the Glass House Farms cannabis greenhouse in Carpinteria on July 10.
The DHS alleges that U.S. Congressmember Salud Carbajal, who joined the crowd of protestors, doxxed the employee — an ICE public affairs specialist — by showing protestors his business card, “making a target out of him.” The photos show a small, bloody wound on the ICE agent’s left hand, which was the result of “a rock being thrown at him,” the press release states, later claiming that it was one of many rocks and other objects thrown at federal officers. That particular agent, it said, “had to go to the emergency room and get stitches for his injury.”
Carbajal countered these claims, noting the show of force by “aggressive” ICE agents during the July 10 raids, which also targeted a second Glass House Farms location in Camarillo. Agents, dressed in full military gear with sunglasses, hats, and masks covering their faces, reportedly deployed flash bangs, smoke cannisters, and rubber bullets into the crowds of civilian protesters who had gathered at both locations.
