A California woman has protested mass deportations by tearing down a US flag and hanging a Mexican one before threatening to kill a police officer’s family as she was being placed in handcuffs.
Crystal Aguilar, 24, of Bakersfield, was arrested on Thursday by Kern County Sheriff’s Officer after multiple people reported her for trying to steal an American flag off a flagpole in Hart Park in her hometown around 9:30 am.
Aguilar, whose parents were deported when she was a child, threw the US flag into the mud after cutting the chain.
She then raised a Mexican flag up on the pole above the entrance to the park, video posted by the Sheriff’s Office showed.
‘You’re not going to tell me what to do, this is Mexican land motherf**ker,’ Aguilar told deputies as they approached her, bodycam footage showed. ‘Look at that flag, because that [US] flag is on the floor.’
As an officer told her to ‘turn around’ to be handcuffed, she replied: ‘OK, my people kill you… Touch me, motherf**ker, and when your kids die…’
She began to resist arrest and told deputies: ‘Take me, motherf**ker, to Mexico… My dad is going to kill you and all your family. You think it’s a joke until it’s not. I already told my dad.’
‘OK,’ the officer replied calmly.
It took several officers to handcuff her, and once they did, she demanded they ‘set me free’ and to ‘turn off my car.’
Crystal Aguilar, 24, of Bakersfield, was arrested on Thursday by Kern County Sheriff’s Officer after multiple people reported her for trying to steal an American flag off a flagpole in Hart Park in her hometown around 9:30am
She can be see raising a Mexican flag on the flagpole on Thursday
‘Don’t tell me what to do, get the f**k out,’ the officer replied.
‘Then get the f**k out of my land, that’s Mexican land,’ she yelled back. ‘That’s Mexican land!’
The video ended with the officer beginning to untie the American flag that had been tied up around a pole.
She was arrested on charges for vandalism, resisting arrest, trespassing in a vehicle and violation of a county ordinance for possession of marijuana in a park.
Last week, Aguilar protested outside of Bakersfield City Hall, advocating for immigrant rights.
Aguilar’s parents were immigrants and field workers, and they were deported when she was young, she told Bakersfield Now.
‘We are the voices of our parents. We are on the land that was stolen,’ she told the outlet.
‘I’m a child that grew up without a mom and without a dad because the government decided to deport them. They were field workers. And I say that loud, and I say that proud.’
As an officer told her to ‘turn around’ to be handcuffed, she replied: ‘Okay, my people kill you… Touch me, motherf**ker, and when your kids die… Take me, motherf**ker, to Mexico … My dad is going to kill you and all your family. You think it’s a joke until it’s not.’
It took several officers to handcuff Aguilar, whose parents were deported when she was a child. She was arrested on charges for vandalism, resisting arrest, trespassing in a vehicle and violation of a county ordinance for possession of marijuana in a park
Aguilar doesn’t remember her father or her brothers who were forced by the federal government to go back to Mexico.
She was protesting President Donald Trump’s executive orders that were aimed at harming immigrants.
ICE has deported 6,000 illegal migrants from the US since Trump took office on January 20.
There have been around 350 to 400 deportations a day, ICE data exclusively shared with the DailyMail.com showed.
In total, ICE arrested 715 individuals with outstanding immigration violations on Monday.
Of these migrants, 73 percent either had known criminal convictions or pending charges, including homicide, sexual crimes against minors and drug trafficking.
And six Tren de Aragua (TDA) cartel affiliates were arrested on Monday in addition to nine other migrant gang members. The first flights of migrants to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba that started Tuesday included members of the gang and other ‘high-threat’ aliens tied to the cartel.
Since Trump’s swearing-in, close to 9,000 immigration violators have been arrested, many of whom have multiple convictions or charges, the official added.
ICE has deported 6,000 illegal aliens from the US since Trump took office on January 20
‘President Trump’s administration is carrying out his promise to arrest and deport criminal illegal immigrants,’ the senior White House official texted DailyMail.com.
‘There’s more to come. This is just the beginning.’
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday Trump celebrated the crackdown on criminal aliens that his administration has been carrying out.
‘The volume of crime that they have and the viciousness of the crimes, these people are horrible people, and if somebody thinks they’re going to be wonderful citizens someday, they’re wrong. It’s not going to happen,’ Trump said.
‘If I can get them out of the country and be in some other country where they’re glad to have them because they make a small fee compared to what we’ve paid to a private prison, or to put them in one of our prisons and cost even more money, I think it would be great,’ he continued.
‘I’d love to get them the hell out of our country,’ the president noted.
