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San Bernardino residents demand answers after federal agents' shooting; police role questioned
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The city manager told the San Bernardino City Council that federal agents were involved in a shooting near a resident’s vehicle and later asked San Bernardino police for crowd-control assistance, prompting more than three dozen speakers at Tuesday’s meeting to demand transparency and local protections for immigrant residents.
The city manager told the San Bernardino City Council that federal agents were involved in a shooting near a resident’s vehicle and later asked San Bernardino police for crowd-control assistance, prompting more than three dozen speakers at Tuesday’s meeting to demand transparency and local protections for immigrant residents.
The matter was raised in the city manager’s opening update, when he described two related incidents that began earlier the same day. “Under the California Values Act of 2018, California law enforcement agencies are prohibited from assisting federal officials with immigration enforcement and at this time it was unclear whether the person involved … was wanted. So the police did clear the scene at that time because we did not want to be involved in immigration enforcement,” the city…
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