In what sounds like the start of a really weird joke, a dozen ICE agents were caught on camera peeing on school property, right next to a preschool playground, after first trespassing on a high school campus in Pico Rivera, a city just 13 miles southeast of Los Angeles.
According to El Rancho Unified School District officials, the urination incident happened on the morning of June 17, as 10 vehicles, some marked, some not, rolled onto Ruben Salazar High School’s campus. The agents got out, disregarded the fact they'd entered a school campus and decided it was the perfect spot for a bathroom break.
School staff approached the agents and said, in so many words, “Uh, you’re not supposed to be here. Please leave.” The ICE agents did leave, but not before releaving their bladders.
Surveillance footage shows the ICE dudes taking turns relieving themselves behind storage containers near an elementary school, not a professional look.
In a sharply worded letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, the school district said no one ever explained why the agents were there without warrants and wondering about justification for the pee-fest.
The district emphasized that the agents trespassed, could have exposed themselves to children, and may have broken California law, which doesn’t permit open urination as schools or parks. In fact, such public urination in those spots can be treated as lewd conduct subject to jail time or fines.
The letter demanded the names, titles, and badge numbers of everyone involved. Homeland Security simply says “we’re investigating.”
As LA County Supervisor Janice Hahn put it: “It’s not enough that they’ve spent weeks violently ambushing people, now ICE and CBP agents are allegedly entering school campuses, pulling down their pants and urinating on playgrounds. It’s a slap in the face to our communities, especially to our children.”
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