The veteran sailor defends the father’s gardener seen being affected by immigration agents on video

The veteran marin son of a Californian gardener seen in a graphic video being hit several times on the head by a customs agent and the border patrol masked and chased under the threat of a firearm pushed against government statements that his father attacked agents with a hairy.

The arrest of Narciso Barranco, 48, in Santa Ana, attracted national attention while videos were published showing a branching agent Barranco, who is undocumented, on the sidewalk with his knee on his omoplade. The agent strikes the face and head of Barranco several times as he tries to pull his right arm behind his back to handle him, while other officers try to keep Barranco down.

The initial videos of the arrest were countered with videos of the administration, which said that Barranco had attacked the police with his hairy.

The Ministry of Internal Security published a video Tuesday – the second he posted – showing that Barranco swings his hairy cutter while he turns to two immigration agents who follow him in a lively street with rifles pulled and pointed at him.

DHS said in a statement on Monday that Barranco ran, then turned and “swung a weed striker directly on the face of an agent. He then fled an animated intersection and raised the weed -wicked weeds to the agent.”

The son of Narciso, Alejandro Barranco, 25, a veteran sailor, said on Tuesday in MSNBC if he had treated an inmate in the same way when he served as a navy, “it would have been a war crime.”

“You see in the video where my father runs with the Waed Whacker, there is a so-called agent flowing with his weapon and pointing it on the side of a vehicle,” said Alejandro, 25. “When of our training taught us to keep our weapon on the side? They are always both hands on the gun and your finger out of relaxation.”

DHS told NBC News that his officers used the minimum amount of force and followed the training using the minimum force required. He said he had prioritized public and officers’ security.

Alejandro said that he had asked his father, that he had visited the metropolitan detention center in Los Angeles, allegations of assault.

“When he heard this, he was like, he was shocked, he was confused. Is it like? Alejandro said. “It is a natural human movement, a natural human reaction. It is already sprayed with pepper, like seconds before that. He said that he had never intended to hurt anyone; he had never intended to hit anyone. It is just a natural movement.”

Alejandro said in an interview with NBC News that he disagreed with the statement of DHS according to which the officers used a minimum and appropriate force.

“It was the maximum, just before using the fatal force, because they fought their heads, four agents of 200, more than 200 pounds or more, beating a 7-inch 5-foot guy, 150 pounds without a weapon, so I don’t think that is the minimum, and I don’t think they have manipulated it professionally,” he said.

Video agents are hidden. Alejandro said that his father, who had lived in the United States for decades, probably did not know who were the agents when they tried to take it, were afraid and ran. He said he thought the agents racily profiled his father when they tried to take it.

Alejandro was concerned about the conditions of the detention center where his father is detained. He said that when he saw him in the establishment on Tuesday, his father wore the same clothes as when he was arrested, that he had not been able to wash his face or a shower, that he had blood on his shirt and that his eyes burned. Alejandro said that his father told him that he was detained in a cage with at least 70 other people, with a toilet and no intimacy, and that he received water “maybe once a day” and “very, very little food”.

“My heart is broken,” said Alejandro, whose two young brothers are navies in active service. “I love my parents. I love the community. I feel betrayed. ”

President Donald Trump has deployed hundreds of navies in Los Angeles, as well as members of the National Guard, during the demonstrations this month against immigration policies of the administration, some of which have become violent. Similar to another navy who spoke to NBC NewsAlejandro said he had mixed feelings about the deployment of marines when many are children of immigrants like him.

“I know they take orders and simply do their job. … I know that some of them are probably confused or they also feel injured, because I am almost sure that many members of their family are also undocumented,” he said.

The families and spouses of the military can apply to obtain green cards or be “released” in the United States, which gives them work permission. Alejandro said the family was trying to do it for her father and would continue with documents while trying to release him from detention.

NBC News reported on Sunday that Another sea veteran Combat the detention of his wife and mother of his two young children, one of them a 3 -month -old child. She was arrested when she appeared for an appointment on a green card on an unanswered referral order.

Alejandro said it was because of his father that he and his brothers had joined the Marines.

“My father and my mom, they have always taught us to respect this country, to be grateful for this country and to appreciate all the opportunities that this country offers us,” he said.

The Trump administration had briefly interrupted arrests of restaurants, hotel and luxury workers and agriculture after Trump said they were “good workers”. But the The administration has reversed.

Alejandro said his father was a hard worker, without a criminal record. He said that his father’s first concern when they spoke the day after his arrest was the work he was doing in an IHOP restaurant when the arrest occurred.

“He asked me to speak to the director of the IHOP and to make sure he knew that I was going to take over,” said Alejandro.

Alejandro said he always feels optimistic and knows that something will happen to help his father.

“It makes me less like my country,” he said. “It makes me love it more because I see all these people defend my father, and it is, right, this country is absolutely, you know, come together as a community, love each other and help each other so that this country can be the best, whether it is a landscape or simply people in general.”