A group of armed federal immigration agents in Huntington Park, California, blasted their way into a family’s home Friday morning while searching for a man they accused of charging into a law enforcement vehicle, according to several media outlets.
“I just heard the loudest blast of my life,” resident Jenny Ramirez told NBC Los Angeles. “I told them, “You didn’t have to do this. You scared my son, my baby and myself.’”
Ring camera footage obtained by the outlet shows a group of armed Customs and Border Protection agents placing an explosive device near Ramirez’s home before a fiery explosion breached the front of the residence. The agents then entered one by one with weapons drawn.
“If they would’ve knocked on my door I would have opened the door, but they blew up the window and door first,” Ramirez told ABC7. “There didn’t have to be that violence to enter my house.”
Ramirez told NBC Los Angeles she heard the explosion —which blew off her door and shattered the windows — a little after 6 a.m. Friday.
She said she and her two children, ages 1 and 6, were the only people inside the house at the time, which she shares with her boyfriend, Jorge Sierra-Hernandez.
“Where they broke the window, my baby was there, and before I got him out of there was when it exploded,” Ramirez told ABC7. “My ears went blank, I imagine how they felt. They were shaking.”
Ramirez said authorities did not give her any warning that they wanted to enter the home, adding that they deployed a drone into her house after setting off the explosive device.
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