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📢 Fullerton police officer intervenes and stops ICE agent from pointing a gun at a U.S. citizen 🇺🇸

Caught on video in Santa Ana, California, a plainclothes ICE agent got out of his vehicle and pointed a gun at a female driver he claimed was following and recording him — even though she hadn’t committed any crime. 

A Fullerton police officer, who was driving by, immediately stopped to assist after seeing an armed man pointing a gun at another person. The officer didn’t initially know who the armed man was, but once the man identified himself as an ICE agent and showed credentials, the Fullerton officer made something clear: recording and following someone in public is not a crime. 

The Fullerton officer refused to assist the ICE agent in detaining the woman simply for filming him, and the woman left the scene safely. 

This incident shows why every American should know their rights — and why local police sometimes have to step in to uphold them, even when federal agents are involved.

📸 Video of the moment has been widely shared online.

Record the POLICE!

Looking to setup groups to video the police in Des Moines, Iowa City/Coralville, Sioux City, Cedar Rapids, Council Bluffs, Dubuque, Waterloo, Ames, and your own hometowns if there is support. The community of Copblock is a level of accountability every Iowan should have available!

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