“We don’t want this on our property,” Al Lopez, pastor of Downey Memorial Church, told the masked and armed men. The alleged ICE agents appeared in the church parking lot southeast of downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday (Spectrum News, note the boldface, mine):

The pastor of Downey Memorial Church Al Lopez said at least five men dressed in plain clothes with faces covered and bullet-proof vests swarmed a man in the parking lot. The pastor said he came out of his office and tried to find out what was happening when one agent drew a weapon and refused to identify themselves.

It is unclear if the agents had a warrant signed by a judge.

“We said we don’t want this on our property. This gentleman just shouted, ‘the whole country is our property,’” Lopez said. “When someone tells that to you, with a weapon in their hands, that was a very clear message. As a man of faith, that is not allowed, and that is not correct and that goes against everything that our country stands for.”

That message is this: You live in a police state.

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